Rock The Cradle's Bad Boy Landon Brown Owes His Irresistible New Smile to Dr. Michael Kosdon
LOS ANGELES, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Times may be tough, but Hollywood's young stars like Landon Brown are finding there's nothing like a dazzling new smile to boost confidence. Cosmetic dentist Dr. Michael Kosdon, DDS helps his celebrity clients beam in on success, citing his experience that ...Big Boy Restaurants Removes Tomatoes from its Menu in Compliance with the FDA Recall
WARREN, Mich., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to a nationwide tomato alert issued by the Food and Drug Administration, Big Boy Restaurants International LLC has ceased serving tomatoes at all of its Big Boy restaurants until further notice. "We are committed to always serving the safest and fines...Young Boy With Epilepsy to Gain Independence With New Seizure Response Dog From Canine Assistants
ATLANTA, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Spencer Wyatt, an 8-year-old boy living with epilepsy, and his mother Amy receive a seizure response dog from Canine Assistants and UCB, Inc., the exclusive sponsor of Canine Assistants seizure response dogs. Through medications, Spencer's seizures have decrea...Wisconsin First State in Nation to Screen Newborns for 'Bubble Boy Disease'
The Jeffrey Modell Foundation drives initiative for SCID screening MILWAUKEE, Jan. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- On Jan. 1, Wisconsin became the first state in the nation to screen all newborns for Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID). Sometimes known as "Bubble Boy Disease," SCID is a genetic diso...Florida Boy Named CNN Heroes Viewers' Choice Winner
12-year-old recognized for recruiting more than 5,000 volunteer marrow donors MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Florida boy who set out earlier this year to add donors of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds to the National Marrow Donor Program(R) (NMDP)...Young Twin Cities Boy Shows There is Life After Cancer
The National Marrow Donor Program's Office of Patient Advocacy receives $1.5 million award to help cancer survivors like Ryan MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Ryan Jacobs of Shakopee, Minn., has been a cancer survivor most of his life. Diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia at ...Study Confirms Limited Human-To-Human Spread of Avian-Flu Virus in Indonesia in 2006
...ed to dead poultry and chicken feces, the presumed source of infection. The boy then probably passed the virus to his father. The possibility that the boy infected his father was supported by genetic sequencing data. Other person-...Baby Gender Mentor Home DNA Genter Test
Description:...into your blood plasma. Because DNA between different people is so similar, the only way to distinguish baby DNA from maternal DNA is if the baby is a boy and has a Y chromosome. If the Y chromosome DNA is present in your maternal blood sample, it's a boy; if the Y chromosome DNA is not present, you're h...Fighting like a girl or boy determined by gene in fruit flies
Fighting like a girl or fighting like a boy is hardwired into fruit fly neurons, according to a study in the Nov. 19 Nature Neuroscience advance online publication by a research team from Harvard Medical School and the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna. The results confirm that a gene know...IUPUI study finds living near fast food outlet not a weighty problem for kids
... (adjusted for normal childhood growth). The researchers estimated that locating one of these facilities near the home of an overweight eight-year-old boy could lower his weight by three to six pounds. Surprisingly, living in proximity to a track and field facility (typically on the campus of a middle o...Gene therapy could expand stem cells' promise
...xploring the potential of stem cells, the recent FDA approval of a human trial involving embryonic stem cells, as well as the reported case of a young boy who developed a brain tumor four years after receiving a stem-cell treatment for a rare genetic disorder. As evidenced by this boy's experience, on...Muscular dystrophy diagnosis delayed almost 2.5 years in boys
...th of delay children have endured for the past 20 years despite advances in genetic testing and treatment. A simple and inexpensive blood test for any boy with symptoms and signs of motor delays and abnormalities could speed up the process while pilot studies on newborn screening are conducted. Recent...Camphor-containing products may cause seizures in children
...9472;over a two-week period. In the first case, a 15-month-old Hispanic boy accidently ingested camphor cubes that his parents were using to ward off evil spirits. In the second case, a 22-month-old Hispanic boy ate a camphor-containing product that was placed around his apartment to co...Targeted drug therapy prevents exercise-induced arrhythmias
... A 12-year-old Dutch boy bedridden for three years because of an inherited...al therapies the previously mentioned 12-year-old boy and a 36-year-old woman. The boy has a mutation in the calsequestrin gene, the same...Boy or girl? It's in the father's genes
...600. "The family tree study showed that whether you're likely to have a boy or a girl is inherited. We now know that men are more likely to have sons i... baby girl (XX) and a Y chromosome will combine with the mother's to make a boy (XY). The Newcastle University study suggests that an as-yet undiscove...Hairspray is linked to common genital birth defect, says study
...ly, hypospadias can be successfully treated with corrective surgery after a boy reaches his first birthday, but more severe cases can lead to problems with...he first 3 months of pregnancy may have increased risk of giving birth to a boy with hypospadias." The researchers reached their conclusions after cond...Texas Boy Receives Wheelchair From New Hampshire Couple's Recently Deceased Granddaughter
FedEx to Deliver Specialized Equipment Free of Charge AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brain Injury Association of Texas (BIATX) today announced that a six-year-old boy in Austin, Texas with significant physical and mental disabilities due to shaken baby syndrome will receiv...American Geographical Society awards honor Henson, Smith on April 15 at UD
...1909 expedition to the North Pole. Born in Charles County, Md., Henson became an adventurer early in life, going to sea at the age of 12 as a cabin boy aboard a merchant ship. In 1887, while working as a stock clerk in Washington, D.C., he met Peary, then a U.S. Navy lieutenant, who offered him a job ...Thomas K. Equels Elected to Hemispherx BioPharma, Inc. Board of Directors
...rns, for the Delaware Insurance Commissioner, related to an insolvent insurance company. -- Obtained a $15 million judgment in 2005 against boy band guru Lou Pearlman of Trans Continental Records, Inc. -- Obtained a $44 million judgment against Manuel Noriega for public money ...BioEnergy International, LLC Announces Norman R. Augustine to Join Advisory Board
...l Americans whether as Chairman of the American Red Cross, President of the boy Scouts or as Under Secretary of the Army," said Stephen J. Gatto, Chairman ...President of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the boy Scouts of America. He has participated in a number of studies of future ene...Commencement 2008: Student innovation could improve data storage, magnetic sensors
...coveries have been published in two articles in the journal Nanotechnology. Morrow proudly originates from the city of Spartanburg, S.C., the only boy in a close family that includes three sisters. His father is a retired chemistry professor at Wofford College, the local liberal arts college that Mor...Lilly Employees from Nearly 50 Nations Participate in Company's First-Ever Global Day of Service
...es of invasive plants from public areas -- building Habitat for Humanity house frames for three homes -- working with 19 local schools (mostly IPS), boy Scouts of Greater Indianapolis, Indy Parks and United Way of Central Indiana on other projects benefiting our central Indiana community "I c...Berlin Heart Enrolls First Patient in US Multi-Center EXCOR(R) Pediatric VAD IDE Study
...pproval for the prospective IDE study to begin initially at 10 centers with 10 patients in May 2007. The first patient in the study is an 8-year-old boy suffering from a congenital heart defect. The patient needed a biventricular assist device to support his weakened heart until a donor heart becomes a...