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European Commission Clears Diabetic Insulin for Pregnant Women

...ntinue to have a higher risk of prenatal death and congenital anomalies than general population. Compared to human insulin, the trial with NovoRapid showed improved outcome for both mother and child in terms of fewer premature deliveries, reduced risk of neo-natal hypoglycaemia requiring treatment and reduced...

Crusade Against Malnutrition

...l back in," Wolff said. "We can't treat all of the congenital diseases they have, but we can treat malnutrition, which makes the kids healthier, smarter, taller and better able to contribute to society." The program stems from one started in 2001 by Mark J. Manary, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Washington ...

Personal Growth and Success Dependent on Prenatal Health

...cy purposes is that whereas heredity is immutable, congenital characteristics are mediated by the prenatal environment. This strongly suggests that economic outcomes are malleable in a way not widely recognized and therefore subject to improvement," explains Douglas Almond (Columbia University). Detecting del...

Bangladeshi Baby gets New Lease of Life in Delhi

... the child. "The baby was suffering from a rare congenital heart defect but after the surgery he is completely out of danger. Now he will certainly live a healthy life," Mahant Told IANS. The cost of the operation was Rs. 150,000. A pleased Shajan Chowdhury, the father of the kid said that they are grate...

Doctors At The TMCH Performs Their First Open-heart Surgery

...the boy who was suffering from an arterial septal, congenital defect on the 4th of August. Dr S Balakrishnan the dean of TMCH said that the patient, S.Velumurugan's condition was stable and that he would most likely be discharged on August 16. It was reported that this was the first time in the history of th...

NSAIDs In First trimester Linked To Congenital Anomalies In Babies

...es may be more likely to give birth to babies with congenital defects. The findings of a new case controlled s...ich is published by John Wiley & Sons, states that congenital birth defects especially cardiac septal defects, could be associated with the use of NSAID by women ...

India may Lose Over $230 bn from Heart Diseases

...Nearly, 100,000 children were born every year with congenital heart diseases. Notwithstanding the urban-rural divide, the consumption of tobacco persisted, and that is "bad news", he said. Youngsters in rural areas are taking to tobacco as a "hobby" while smoking has become a lifestyle statement in cities. ...

Understanding Reasons for Tone deafness

...stle University Medical School. Tone deafness (or congenital amusia) is known to last a lifetime which impedes normal functioning people to learn even fundamental music skills. The study investigated the structural neural correlates of tone deafness. Magnetic resonance imaging data from a group of tone deaf ...

Eyelash transplantation – for the beauty conscious folks!

...lly restricted to people who had suffered burns or congenital malformations of the eye, 80% of the transplants done currently are for cosmetic reasons. GYT...

Key Gene Controlling Eye Lens Development Identified

...gning both preventive and treatment strategies for congenital diseases.” The St. Jude team further showed that the proteins coded for by Six3 are present in the PLE before those coded by Pax6. This was evidence that production of Pax6 proteins in that region of the head starts after Six3 proteins are made, fu...

Corporate Hospital and NGO stirred to help children with heart disease

...of medical insurance cover for young children with congenital disorders often snatches away the opportunity for timely correction of simple defects surgically which later on become difficult to treat commented Dr. Girinath. Project SACH will enable the dedicated team of doctors from Apollo. Hospitals to reach...

Naseem’s Heart Put In Its Plac

...oltz Children's Hospital. The baby had a very rare congenital heart disorder called Ectopia// cordis. Seven or eight babies in a million are born with this birth defect. The baby named Naseem, was born with his heart outside his chest. The breast bone or sternum and the protective cover for the heart called p...

Technology Predicts Outcome of Child Heart Surgery

... lower chamber. Considered one of the most complex congenital heart defects, a single-ventricle heart often leads to congestive heart failure if not repaired. Patients with this defect often undergo multiple surgeries to reconfigure the pulmonary and systemic systems in operations called Fontan repairs, a re...

Study Uncovers Mutation Responsible for Noonan Syndrome

...n syndrome is the most common single gene cause of congenital heart disease,' explains co-senior author Benjamin Neel, MD, PhD, Director of the Division of Cancer Biology at BIDMC and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). 'Although previous work had identified mutations in the PTPN11 gene as ...

Delhi Medical Board to Probe Mistaken Surgery on Child

...r-old child who was mistakenly operated //upon for congenital hernia instead of an extra finger in a government hospital here. Kapil Brijpal was taken to a wrong operation theatre Tuesday in the Baba Ambedkar Hopsital in Rohini, where he had been admitted for removing the sixth finger of his right hand. "We ...

Pregnant Women Can Minimize Risk Of Rodent-Based Virus

...es some miscarriages. "Cases of babies born with congenital LCMV are rare. However, because the virus can severely affect the developing fetus, it's important for pregnant women to take precautions," Bonthius said. "The virus is present wherever wild mice live, therefore the virus is present virtually every...

New Findings on Toxoplasmosis

...ation of the brain in AIDS patients and for severe congenital disease that is passed from mother to baby," White said. MSU led the study that was published in PloS, White said. MSU made major contributions to the Nature and Science papers, which were collaborations with Stanford University and Washington Univ...

Therapy Modulates Highly Sensitized Immune System to Let Mother Give Kidney to Daughter

... until March 2003 when she underwent surgery for a congenital heart defect and a major vein was accidentally severed. The 24 units of blood she was given over the next few hours saved her life, but her kidneys suffered irreparable damage, and along with all those transfusions of other people’s blood came high e...

Can Defective Babies Be Made To Order?

... result in miscarriage or severe and usually fatal congenital defects. Dr. Mark Hughes, who runs a Detroit laboratory that does PGD nationwide, said he hadn't heard of the technology being used to select an abnormal embryo until the survey. "It's total nonsense," Hughes said. "It couldn't possibly be 3% of ...

Anti-rejection Therapy a Boon for Patients With "anti-donor" Antibody Levels

... until March 2003 when she underwent surgery for a congenital heart defect and a major vein was accidentally severed. The 24 units of blood she was given over the next few hours saved her life, but her kidneys suffered irreparable damage, and along with all those transfusions of other people’s blood came high e...

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