A UCSF study reveals that anti-smoking programs can immediately generate significant health care savings by reducing low birth weight babies and heart disease cases. The research estimates that a one percent drop in smoking rates could save up to $572 million in direct medical costs.
Researchers are using two major grants to develop a new diagnostic nomenclature for children's mental health, combining valid symptoms and rules from competing systems. The studies aim to identify clusters of co-occurring symptoms and test hypotheses regarding the syndromes of mental disorder.
A study found that glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is critical to embryonic development, increasing the risk of prenatal and postnatal death. The deficiency also increases the incidence of birth defects in fetuses exposed to oxidative stress.