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Early Clue to Down Syndrome

.... The condition produces varying degrees of mental retardation and a range of physical deformities, including a small nose and thick neck, which are detectable more or less in early pregnancy. Detecting Down syndrome early in pregnancy could be as plain as the nose on the baby's face. // British scientists say...

Mental retardation linked to brain protein

...e study presented the major conclusion that mental retardation involves many more areas of the brain than first e...mation to help scientists better understand mental retardation and to develop new drugs or therapies to counter the condition....

Benefits and Risks of Asthma Treatment Questioned

...r use. Specifically, ICS has been linked to growth retardation in children, weak bones in children and adults, skin thinning, and eye problems. Now leading scientists hope to put those fears to rest. Three medical groups -- the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and ...

Premature Aging Can Be Managed With Anti-Cancer Drugs In Future

...eria is a genetic disorder characterized by growth retardation and accelaration of symptoms of aging -- namely hair loss, skin wrinkling and fat loss. Accelerated cardiovascular disease also ensues, typically causing death from heart attack or stroke at about the age of 12. The disease is estimated to affect on...

Acute Toxicity Of Nano-Scale Zinc Powder: Severe Renal Damage And Anemia

... powders. The N-Zn mice exhibit significant growth retardation compared with the M-Zn and the control mice in the first 3 days after treatment. Two deaths caused by the N-Zn administration indicated that the N-Zn was probably easily causing intestinal obstruction than the M-Zn particles. Since nanoscale partic...

Indian Doctor Wants March 21st To Be Celebrated As World Down Syndrome Day

... Down Syndrome is the most common cause of mental retardation and malformation that affects some newborns. The objective of WDSD is to commemorate, create and accomplish a level of awareness and understanding of Down syndrome through highlighting the potential and ability of people with the syndrome to be an in...

microRNA And Its Role In Synaptic Regulation

...o use in case of treating disorders such as mental retardation and autism. It is found that deletion of Limk1 gen...s proved that these three disorders lead to mental retardation and compromised cognition....

New Drug Could Prevent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

...y. Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) results in mental retardation in babies and currently there is no known cure for it. The reserachers say that a drug called nicotinamide might be able to prevent the ill effects of this particular syndrome. The researchers arrived at this conclusion after successful trials in m...

Use Of Alcohol During Pregnancy Affects Newborns

...re likely to be induced due to intrauterine growth retardation and premature rupture of membranes. Of babies in the alcohol group, 29 percent were delivered by Caesarean section for fetal distress compared with 14 percent for the other babies, and they were 1.6 times more likely to be transferred to the special ...

Craig Newschaffer of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

...003. During the same period, diagnoses of mental retardation fell by 2.8 per 1,000 students and diagnoses of learning disabilities dropped by 8.3 per 1,000 students. Craig Newschaffer of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore said, "We do not know whether individual children have switche...

Distressed Couple Assists Parents Of Mentally Challenged Kids

...ample of one such child Ranu who due to her mental retardation could not move her limbs and palms. We told her ...i family also runs an awareness campaign on mental retardation of children. --Edited IANS...

The Price Of Autism

...ncluding Alzheimer’s disease ($91 billion); mental retardation ($51 billion); anxiety ($47 billion); and schizophrenia ($33 billion). Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) that involves severe deficits in a person’s ability to communicate and interact with others. Children with autism often have ...

Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Sets Cognitive Problems After 10 Years

...s at the University of Washington.‘However, mental retardation only characterizes a minority of patients with FAS and Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder (ARND). There are a number of domains of cognitive functioning that can be impaired even in the face of a relatively normal IQ, including academic achi...

Number of Children, Teens Being Treated for Mental Disorders is on Rise

...cent), pervasive developmental disorders or mental retardation (17.3 percent) and psychotic disorders (14.2 percent). Male and white youth were most likely to receive such treatments. The availability of new antipsychotics with fewer side effects in adults may have contributed to the increase. In addition, few...

Bush Administration to Exempt Medicaid Recipients on Proof of Citizenship

... would apply, for instance, to "people with mental retardation who have never worked and to many nursing home residents." The new law had brought forth criticism from many who said that it would be difficult for many people with mental retardation, Alzheimer's disease and other mental impairments to produce the ...

NHGRI Aims To Sequence Primate Genomes

...tal duplicated regions, including a form of mental retardation and other neurological and birth defects. Segmental duplications cover 5.3 percent of the human genome, significantly more than in the rat genome, which has about 3 percent, or the mouse genome, which has between 1 and 2 percent. Segmental duplicat...

Human Embryonic Stem Cells Could Be Later Used In Therapeutic Cloning

...nesis can cause immunological deficiencies, mental retardation and other abnormalities such as Rett, Prader-Willi, Angelman and Beckwith-Wiedemann syndromes. Until recently, DNA methylation could only be studied one gene at a time. But a new microarray-based technique developed at Illumina enabled the scientists...

Genetics Of Mental Retardation

...re causes of mental retardation. An example is the retardation caused by a large deletion in six genes on chromos... the researchers screened 290 children with mental retardation and identified several abnormal genetic events. The researchers were able to pinpoint the region of ...

Acne Drug Found To Cause More Harm than Good

... premature births and birth defects such as mental retardation and cleft lip. Explaining that though the drug is known to cure almost acne almost 89% of the patients, the researchers have said that it can also raise levels of blood fats and liver enzymes. They further explained that these increased liver enzym...

Low Birth Weight Babies May Have Mental & Physical Problems

...mes, whereas the prevention of intrauterine growth retardation (or perhaps impaired head growth) and white matter injury may be key to improving cognitive outcomes. Taken together, these findings suggest that enhanced maternal-fetal and neonatal care have the potential to substantially improve cognitive and moto...

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