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Mutant gene causes severe kidney disease in infants

...hrotic syndrome, it's important to find out if the child has mutations in PLCE1," says Hildebrandt. "Some infants with PLCE1 mutations might be treated successfully with steroids. It's not a golden bullet, but there's a slim chance, if the treatment is given early. "Unfortunately, mutations in other pod...

New way of tracking muscle damage from radiation

...re related not only to the amount of radiation the child received, but also to the child's age and the presence of a nearby tumor. "We hope that detecting these changes at such an early stage may help clinicians predict which patients need an intervention to prevent late damage," Krasin said. Soft tiss...

Good times ahead for dinosaur hunters, according to U of Penn scientist's dinosaur census

...ate of 10 to 20 per year. "It's a safe bet that a child born today could expect a very fruitful career in dinosaur paleontology," said Dodson, professor of anatomy in Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine and professor in Penn's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. "Unfortunately, there is a fi...

Designer babies - what would you do for a 'healthy' baby?

...ren's IQ. Women interpret certain interventions in child rearing as "design acts" more readily than men. Pe...ainty" - the idea than women know for certain if a child is their's whereas men do not ?men show a significantly greater preference than female parents for t...

Artificial cornea offers better results for infants, some blind patients

...lem with the implant. In the seven cases where the child was 4 years old or older and could explain to some degree how much he or she could see, every child could at least see fingers held at an arm's length, and some children improved to 20/30 vision. "...

Telemedicine robots help improve health

...blished via the Centre for Online Health, the sick child can see their Brisbane specialist on the robot's television–like screen. A built-in camera and microphone enables the specialist to see and speak with the child. Eliza is one of four robots that will be commissioned over the next three years, tha...

Down syndrome: It's not just the age factor

...ether or not a pregnant woman will give birth to a child with Down Syndrome is not simply a matter of how o...as women get older, they are more likely to have a child with Down Syndrome, other factors also play a role. According to Markus Neuhäuser and Sven Krackow,...

Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease

...o Childhood Diarrhoea, or EACh-ChilD (because each child is precious!) currently receives funding of ?m fro...sible on cost grounds to give antibiotics to every child with diarrhoea, and in any case antibiotics would not work in every case. The Leicester test inclu...

Very low birth weight linked to reduced quality of life in pre-school children

...rents were also much more likely to say that their child had health issues, with 29 per cent reporting a current problem, compared with 18 per cent in the control group. In general, children with low birth weight had poorer lung function, appetite and motor function than normal birth-weight children, as w...

Researchers discover new gene responsible for brittle bone disease

...h unexplained fractures, and who may be accused of child abuse. The study was led by Brendan Lee, M.D.,...mal gene, they have one-in-four chance of having a child with osteogenesis imperfecta. Funding for the research came from the National Institutes of Healt...

Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds

... to continue with the steady increase in adult and child obesity. One-in-3 Americans born in 2000 are expected to develop diabetes if current trends continue, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CBE's research into chronic wounds began two years ago, after it was contacted by...

Blue eyes -- A clue to paternity

...allele is recessive. It then follows that if a child born to two blue-eyed parents does not have blue eyes, then the blue-eyed father is not the biological father. It is therefore reasonable to expect that a man would be more attracted towards a woman displaying a trait that increases his paternal con...

Resistant bacteria increasing source of muscle infection

...there are symptoms of such an infection, such as a child limping or if there is redness or swelling in an extremity." Houston, in particular, has a high rate of MRSA infections. More than 75 percent of community-acquired staphylococcal infections treated at Texas Children's Hospital are MRSA (resistant t...

High dopamine transporter levels not correlated with ADHD

...els of dopamine transporters. Jeffrey Newcorn, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and lead collaborator from Mount Sinai, emphasized that ADHD is not a simple, one-type-fits-all disorder. There are very likely variations in dopamine transporter levels among and even within ADHD subgroups. "The signifi...

Parental genes do what's best for baby

...ils to answer some important questions relating to child development. In fact, rather than a parental power struggle, the researchers suggest that certain offspring characteristics can only be explained by their theory of genetic cooperation. “When we are conceived we inherit two copies of every gene...

Viral marker of human migration suspect

...virus had been strictly passed down from parent to child and had kept step with human migration, one would expect the various subtypes to group together geographically, she explains. Shackelton added that if the co-evolution of the virus and human populations were as strict as previously thought one wo...

Breastfeeding boosts mental health

... based on a scientifically recognised checklist of child behaviour that assessed the study children's behaviour at 2, 6, 8 and 10 years of age. Dr Oddy said that children that were breastfed had particularly lower rates of delinquent, aggressive and anti-social behaviour, and overall were less depressed...

Inheriting a tendency to brain infection

...l Levin, professor of pediatrics and international child health at Imperial College, London, does not think the two theories are mutually exclusive. "We strongly suspect that rare, highly deleterious mutations may co-exist with common polymorphisms in many infectious diseases," he said. ...

Gene therapy accelerates healing of damaged skeletal muscle

...ance of these findings and reviews the response to child farm injury in his country, Australia. ...

Gene therapy protects mice from the effects of whole-body irradiation

...ance of these findings and reviews the response to child farm injury in his country, Australia. ...

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