According to NCES 2, only 53 percent of children ages three to five were read to daily by a family member (1999). Children in families with incomes below the poverty line are less likely to be read to aloud everyday than are children in families with incomes at or above poverty.
There is more than hope for people with post-traumatic stress. Recovery can and does occur. Please do not rely on medication alone as it has no power to change the brain permanently. Effective cognitive-behavioral approaches -- which with repetition change the brain -- work in the vast majority of cases.
Closure of the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is stimulated by administration of prostaglandin synthesis inhibitors, such as indomethacin or aspirin, which is effective in premature infants (see Pharmacologic Management and Medications).Indomethacin (0.1 mg/kg body weight) is administered orally at 8-hour intervals.lthough indomethacin therapy is preferred in most intensive care nurseries (NICUs) as the first-line approach to effect patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure, the benefits of this approach over surgical ligation are not obvious.