Newborn infants routinely receive a vitamin K shot after birth in order to prevent (or slow) a rare problem of bleeding into the brain weeks after birth. Vitamin K promotes blood clotting. The fetus has low levels of vitamin K as well as other factors needed in clotting. The body maintain...
Though the conditions in which vitamin K influences biomarkers are not apparent, the study assumes that vitamin K decreases the expression of genes linked to individual cytokines (11). With low levels of vitamin K, the level of cytokines increases, and this results in bone loss and increased in...
that medical professionals have the authority to take custody of the child and administer the Vitamin K shot over the objections of the parents, even without DCFS involvement. Such “custody” can be as little as only “2 minutes,” th...
When infantsreceive the Vitamin K shot at birth, anywhere from 0 to 0.4 infants per 100,000 get late VKDB. The shot doesn’t prevent every case of late VKDB, but most countries report incidence rates of zero or close to zero. For example, between 2006-2008 in England, there were four...
Amber Fields, a professional model who has worked as a ring card girl for professional boxing, bare knuckle, and mixed martial events, is also training to try her hand at boxing competition. In the spirit of staying both physically and mentally fit, Fields recently posted an important health ...
whole genome shotgun sequencing contigs (WGS_contigs) and the Morex reference assembly pseudomolecules (MRA) in the IBSC database. By overlapping multiple reads, we were able to create approximately 6,500 bp long ungapped contigs of all three alleles. They surpassed the one Barke-, the one...
told that all of Ryder’s follow-up labs came back normal. He was officially given the diagnosis of “hemorrhagic disease of the newborn” which is caused by a vitamin K deficiency, and the reason that nearly all newborns birthed in a hospital are given a shot of vitam...
Your body needs nutrients throughout the course of the day, not just one huge shotgun dose when you get out of bed in the morning or before you go to bed at night. So I needed to find a multivitamin designed in such a way that it delivered important nutrients for daily metabolism and...
Will it be as effective as a true vitamin b12 shot? I guess only time will tell. If “TriVita’s b12 provides more B-12 than the average B-12 shot” he should be fine, and should be getting enough b12 into his system to discontinue the painful shots. ...
I hope that you enjoy reading Dr. Cannell’s newsletter. It is another good day in the land of vitamin D when we hear that people are being healed and relay their stories. This helps other begin to understand the action of what Oliver Gillie describes as a ‘magic shot gun’. ...