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Developmental, neurologic problems common in extremely preterm infants

... weeks' gestation often have severe neurologic and developmental disabilities, researchers report in the August 10th issue of The New EnglandJournal of Medicine.The EPICure Study Group identified 308 children born at the gestational age of 25 weeks or earlier in the UK and Ireland. Of these, 283 were assessed for ...

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

... in the second case, children could face long-term developmental impairment. "We were led to the conclusion that ear disease does not cause any developmental problems," said Dr. Jack Paradise, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and lead researcher o...

Doctors advice early anemia tests

...lems in childhood leading on to problems in simple developmental skills such as standing and walking. Eight-month-o...tor skill tests. "In this study we have shown that developmental outcome at 18 months of age, particularly motor development, is associated with hemoglobin concentra...

Stuttering and brain anatomy

...g MRI scans to measure the brains of 16 persistent developmental stuttering (PDS) patients and 16 controls, the right and left temporal lobe were found to be significantly larger in the adults with PDS, according to neurologist and study aithor Anne Foundas, at Tulane University in New Orleans. In addition, irr...

Rubella nearly wiped out

...uding cataracts, heart defects, hearing damage and developmental delays. The goal now should be to educate foreign-born people about rubella, ensure that doctors ask patients about vaccinations, and perhaps help other countries with their vaccination programs. Infants in the United States are routinely immunize...

Knee fat turns into cartilage

...s primitive cells that can go along one of several developmental pathways - to become more specialised. Working with patients who would just had a knee operation, researchers at Hopkins University now report that it's possible to convert the cells from the fat pad behind the knee cap into cartilage or bone cells...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...ngs," Dr. Arthur Lander, professor and chairman of developmental and cell biology at the University of California, Irvine, told UPI. The findings -- in separate studies by Smith and team and Naohiro Terada of the University of Florida in Gainesville -- point to an occurrence the previous experiments failed to exp...

Dangers from lead

...evels of lead in their bones face the same sort of developmental problems as babies exposed to lead from sources like old pain, researchers reported recently. In an article in the journal Pediatrics, they said this type of lead exposure// “may constitute a significant public health problem, in view of the long res...

High development costs hinder entry of cancer super drugs into the market

...d only about one in ten make it to the market. The developmental costs of these drugs are so high because they are targeted at specific molecules and this requires sophisticated screening tests. The pharma companies are already pulling out of oncology drugs since the potential market is too small, as the patients...

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

...their widespread presence in cells during critical developmental periods. Researchers, during the course of this study, have also helped identify a faulty connexin gene as the cause of a skin and deafness disorder known as "KIDS" (for keratitis, ichthyosis and deafness syndrome), while previous findings by others ...

Mental growth in babies at risk

...earchers are now investigating whether people with developmental disorders are unusually vulnerable to noise....

Support Services found to Dramatically Impact Pediatric Health Care

...ials and support groups to advise parents who have developmental concerns with their children. Researchers found p...s in the program were more confident in discussing developmental and depression issues with health care providers. Other benefits to program participants included ch...

Mental Health Services for Children

...edicine conducted a study to look at the physical, developmental and mental health needs of children. Study authors... service use in the same way as physical health or developmental problems. For the research, study authors surveyed parents of children in Connecticut. The parents ...

New Technique to Study Infants Brain.

...vels of speech should prove useful in the study of developmental language disorders, which are the single largest handicapping condition of childhood. Specialists also hope that the mapping of specific brain-language relationships will foster understanding of the mental processes underlying language itself....

Midlife Brain Activity a Predictor Of Alzheimer’s Diseas

.... Researchers say genetic factors and the brain’s developmental process contribute to the degeneration of myelin. They say complex connections that take the longest to develop are among the first to deteriorate because myelin breaks down in reverse order of development. Specialists say: “The body was designed to ...

Latest Tumor Classification More Informative

...mors are grouped according to the component cells' developmental history – their 'histogenesis'. For example leukemia would be classified as a mesenchyme-derived tumor. Patterns identified from the gene expression and proteomic data from tumor samples can then be integrated as new groups within this classification...

Spanking can Cause Adverse Effects Later In Life

...ociated with other factors that indicate a greater developmental risk, such as high parent stress. Previous studies show significant behavior problems early in a child’s school career is a risk factor for school failure, the need for special educational services, mental health problems, and other adverse outcomes...

Studying The Causes Of Autism

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by severe impairment in the ability to socialize and communicate with other people. Most people who have the // condition are diagnosed around the age of 3 or 4 when they fail to develop normal social and communication skills....

Unborn Found To Be More Sensitive to Pollution

...ke, has important implications for cancer risk and developmental problems....

fMRI Offers Insight Into An Infants Brain

...vels of speech should prove useful in the study of developmental language disorders, which are the single largest handicapping condition of childhood. Specialists also hope that the mapping of specific brain-language relationships will foster understanding of the mental processes underlying language itself....

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