Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata A pregnant Singaporean woman, infected by the coronavirus gave birth to a baby with antibodies against the virus, giving insight to the fact if the virus can be transformed from mother to child. The women’s doctors suspect that the mother, who got infected by the by the virus during […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata The data on COVID-19 infections during pregnancy is limited. Although mortality or casualty due to the infection isn’t reported yet some adverse outcomes have been reported in the infants of women with covid-19 infections. The infant born to a COVID-19 infected mother has low birth weight, feeding intolerance, respiratory problems. Other […]
SRILAGNA SARKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Vitamin D is one very critical nutrient in the developmental process, of neurocognitive function and in embryonic neuronal differentiation. Although the recent observational studies have shown an inconsistent link between gestational Vitamin D and its neurocognitive outcomes. As we already know the pigment Melanin protects the skin by blocking UV […]
Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata PSGs (Pregnancy specific β-1-glycoproteins) generally regulate innate and adaptive immunity. Not only that, during pregnancy when the maternal immune system undergoes alloimmunization due to fetal antigens, Pregnancy specific β-1-glycoproteins play an important role in the formation of feto-maternal tolerance. One of the many factors, the ratio between anti-inflammatory (Treg cells) […]
PRIYANKA CHAKRABORTY, AMITY UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA Barcelona Institute for Global Health, for the first time, pointed out the relationships between multiple urban lifestyles, and body mass index (BMI) exposure. There is growing evidence that urban exposures like air pollution and a huge population are directly declining the growth and increasing obesity in children. Data was collected from 80,000 children living in […]
Arpan Banerjee, University of Calcutta Prematurity or pre-term birth has become one of the most alarming cases about child mortality all across the globe. Approximately, 1.1 million pre-term babies perish every year throughout the world. By definition, it is the birth of a baby at lesser than 37 weeks, as opposed to the usual which […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata With the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, certain fundamental yet important questions come into the mind of various people. One such question is, “Can breastfeeding lead to the transmission of the coronavirus from a mother to her newborn?” The transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection from a mother to her child during the pregnancy […]
