Hi I am a midwifery practitioner/lecturer here in Auckland at national
Women's hospital. I was a senior lecturer at DeMontfort University in
Leicester UK till 1996 when I came to NZ.

I have an article on Golding's work in Bristol when the first link to
childhood leukaemia was found. We have just recently had a seminar
presentation at NWH on Vitamin K for our staff here as oral preparations
will be available in NZ from end of this month. Roche has kindly sent me
information which includes document they produced in 1992 regarding
"Bleeding in babies - the small but terrible residual risk" which quotes
some of the literature. There is also immense information in MIDIRS
regarding Vit K.

I am happy to send the copy of the Roche document - it is too big to scan if
you send me the postal address. Thanks


Nimisha Waller
Midwifery Practitioner/Lecturer
National Women's Hospital
Locator 93 4405

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Edwin van Teijlingen [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Can someone be of help with a reference on vit. K for this American 
> colleague?
> Edwin R. van Teijlingen
> Lecturer in Public Health
> Admission Selector and co-ordinator BSc Health Sciences
> Department of Public Health
> Medical School
> University of Aberdeen
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> -----Original Message-----
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> 
> Hi -
> I have a question I'm hoping someone can help me with. When I was taking
> my 
> last maternal and child nutrition program, I remember our professor
> talking 
> about vitamin K that is given to newborns. She mentioned that in the UK, 
> about half the babies get vitamin K by injection, and the other half 
> receive it orally. Follow up studies apparently showed that the kids who 
> received the injection had a higher incidence of childhood leukemia. I 
> can't seem to find any reference on this, and that particular professor is
> 
> out of the country at this time. Has anyone heard or seen anything related
> 
> to this issue?
> Thanks-
> Maureen Spence, MS, RD
> 


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