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Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...a hereditary component, transmitted from parent to child through the three billion DNA letters that make up the human genome," said Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH and chairman of the GAIN Steering Committee and co-chairman of the NIH Coordin...

Ethiopian development raises birth rate

...elopment projects designed to improve maternal and child welfare in Africa may incur unexpected costs associated with increases in family size if they do not include a component of family planning, according to new research from the University of Bristol into rural communities in Ethiopia. The research, p...

First SCID gene chip to be introduced at Academy meeting on immunodeficiencies

...in the Plastic Bubble" starring John Travolta as a child stricken with Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID) who lived in a plastic enclosure until his death. Exciting New Breakthroughs in Diagnosis and Treatment of SCID In the past, a newborn diagnosed with SCID would not survive to his or her f...

Pittsburgh researchers discover that certain chemicals in the blood may indicate brain injury

...ified as having SBS, the caretaker who brought the child to the hospital for evaluation did not know that the child had been shaken," said Dr. Berger. "It is so important for physicians to realize that the adult who ...

New Rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule

...and throughout the world, hundreds of thousands of child deaths. The new vaccine was invented by three Ph... of eliminating childhood disease." Nearly every child experiences infection with rotavirus, usually as gastroenteritis. In the United States, children und...

Environmental tobacco smoke linked to behavior problems in children and pre-teens

... Dr. Yolton included additional measures to assess child behaviors. To measure exposure to environmental t...ke is increasingly recognized as a risk factor for child behavior problems." In the United States, about 25 percent of children are exposed to environmental...

Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide

... offspring, there is a 25 percent chance that each child will receive both copies of the gene and be affect...t are consistent with the established maternal and child health programs. These include: Educate the community, health professionals and workers, policy...

UCLA imaging study of children with autism finds broken mirror neuron system

... same tasks. Separately, symptom severity of each child with autism was tested using two independent measures (the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule -- Generic, and the Autism Diagnostic Interview). The study shows that unlike typically developing children, children with autism have virtually no act...

Sooner is better with cochlear implants, Stanford scientist shows

...nce suggesting that the earlier a hearing-impaired child receives a cochlear implant, the better. "I see this as a fascinating experiment that reveals the tremendous capacity for plasticity in the developing brain," said Eric Knudsen, PhD, the paper's senior author and the Edward C. and Amy H. Sewall Prof...

Image of myosin-actin interaction revealed in cover story of Molecular Cell

...nd over hand along the track, similar to the way a child moves along the monkey bars in a playground. Myosin V differs from the other myosin family proteins in that it is able to sustain this processive motion, enduring many hydrolysis cycles. The other myosins grab on tightly to actin and release after o...

Penicillin, amoxicillin: Step aside for strep throat treatment

...dication label that urges parents to make sure the child finishes all the medications. The good intentions...rugs later on. All the while, the still-contagious child is exposing his or her friends to strep. ...

Clinical trial to test stem cell approach for children with brain injury

...ain the trial and request permission to enroll the child in the study. If permission is granted, bone marrow will be extracted from the child's hip and then processed to derive two types of progenitor stem cells: mesenchymal stem cells, which differentiate into bone, cartilage and fat cells, and researc...

Brain activity related to processing faces is similar in people with, without autism

...e idea is that maybe behavioral methods can help a child with autism approach facial stimuli without anxiety. This is strictly conjecture, but it is a tantalizing possibility," Dichter said. Imaging allows researchers to begin looking at underlying mechanisms in brain function, Belger said. "Still, we mu...

Anti-cancer drugs may hold promise for premature aging disorder

...hich is a genetic disorder estimated to affect one child in 4 million. When they are born, children with progeria appear normal. But, as they grow older, they experience growth retardation and show dramatically accelerated symptoms of aging -- namely hair loss, skin wrinkling and fat loss. Accelerated card...

Zinc supplements safe for HIV-infected children

...to give the 10-mg zinc or placebo tablets to their child every day for six months. The children were seen at the hospital every two weeks for the first month, monthly for five months and, as a final visit, nine months after zinc or placebo supplementation began. At each follow-up visit, parents were asked ...

Hand sanitizer gel works

... through day care centers, and all had a least one child in day care. Families already using hand sanitizer were excluded from the study. Half the families were randomly assigned to receive hand sanitizer and educational materials on hand hygiene. They were told to place bottles of the gel around the house...

U-M scientists say fused genes trigger the development of prostate cancer

...types are available for a mother, father and their child -- taking into account that haplotypes of the children are copies of the haplotypes of the parents. As a side effect of their research, the computer scientists are now depositing 15 gigabytes of data into dbSNP, and their article in Genome Researc...

California computer scientists double volume of data in NIH biotech repository

...types are available for a mother, father and their child -- taking into account that haplotypes of the children are copies of the haplotypes of the parents. As a side effect of their research, the computer scientists are now depositing 15 gigabytes of data into dbSNP, and their article in Genome Researc...

Study shows big game hunters, not climate change, killed off sloths

...d West Indian ground sloths are sort of the poster child of big extinct West Indian mammals," he said. "I think this will go a long way to finally put to rest this whole idea that large extinct animals from the West Indies died out in the Ice Age during the Pleistocene Epoch." ...

Biologists Crack Genetic Code for Specialized Spider Silk

...s unable to mount a strong antibody response. Each child of a person so affected has a 50 percent chance of inheriting the mutation and being predisposed to IgA deficiency and CVID. “A test for TACI defects would enable the diagnosis of more children and their relatives with these immune deficiencies,?say...

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