What should a teenage girl do if she finds a lump in her breast?

MAYWOOD, Il. -- If a lump is found in the breast of an adolescent girl, she often will undergo an excisional biopsy. However, breast cancer is rare in adolescents, and the vast majority of teenage breast lumps turn out to be benign masses that are related to hormones. A recent Loyola Univers...

Twelve Year-Old Girl With Facial Paralysis Is Smiling Again After Cutting-Edge Facial Plastic Surgery

As a two-year-old, Adyana developed facial paralysis following a routine cold. Although she and her family were otherwise happy and healthy, little Adyana could no longer smile. Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) June 9, 2009 -- Born in Puerto Rico, Adyana later moved to Florida...

Changes(TM) Kit for Girls - 'What Every Girl Wants.'

Essential survival gear for parents and guardians raising girls who are just entering puberty LOS ANGELES, May 12, /PRNewswire/ -- Changes (TM) is the leading product to help young girls navigate through the rocky road of adolescence . (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi...

Pregnant? Curious About the Baby's Gender? Know if It's a Boy or Girl at Six Weeks With IntelliGender's(R) In-Home Gender Prediction Test(TM) Now Available at All Walgreens Stores

Experience the joy of discovery with an affordable, at home, test. Achieve immediate results using the IntelliGender(R) Gender Prediction Test(TM) DALLAS, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Walgreens, the nation's largest drug store chain with nearly 6,700 stores will carry IntelliGender(R), LLC's ( ...

Nolan Law Group Files Lawsuit on Behalf of the Parents of a 14-Month-Old Girl Killed in October 15th 2008 Medical Evacuation Helicopter Crash Near Aurora, Illinois

CHICAGO, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A lawsuit stemming from the catastrophic October 15, 2008 crash of an Air Angels EMS Helicopter near Aurora, Illinois was filed today on behalf of Robert and Brooke Blockinger, who suffered the tragic loss of their 14-month-old daughter Kirstin Reann Blockinger....

Teen Pop Star, Chantel 'Chani' Christie, Launches the Chani Girl Foundation to Bring Education/Awareness on HIV/AIDS

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Chantel 'Chani' Christie, teen pop star, and daughter of NBA power couple Doug and Jackie Christie, is set to launch her new Chani Girl Foundation on December 1, 2008 which is World AIDS Day. To kick off her new charity she plans to donate 300 of her best...

Teen Girl Loses Hair But Gains Support

Peggy Knight provides solutions for hair loss and self esteem SAUSALITO, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- When Peggy Knight, of Peggy Knight Solutions, learned that a young woman was afraid to go to school because she had lost her hair and kids were teasing her, she took action. Peggy donat...

Hungry Girl and Fiber One(R) Team Up to Offer Delicious Ways to Get Your Fiber Fix

New Hungry Girl Book Features Tips and Tricks for Hungry Chicks Including Guilt-Free Recipes and Survival Guides MINNEAPOLIS, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Hungry Girl Lisa Lillien is offering tasty ways to rethink fiber. Lillien's new book HUNGRY GIRL: Recipes and Survival Strategies ...

'it' Girl Public Relations Adds 'O.N.I.' New Organic Food Delivery Service to Its Lifestyle Division

Optimal Nutrition Inc. Chooses 'it' Girl PR to help promote their delicious organic meal delivery service. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- "it" Girl Public relations, one of the leading Public Relations agencies in Los Angeles, expands their lifestyle division with the a...

Bayer Awards Making Science Make Sense Grant to Girl Scouts

Company Brings Global U.N. Environment Initiative to Northern New Jersey, Planting Trees and Providing Free Environmental Education Activities MORRISTOWN, N.J., Nov. 18, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reaffirming its commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, today Bayer emplo...

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Hooters of Orange Park to Host Charity Car Wash Raising Money for Breast Cancer Research

...rch grant. Every Hooters restaurant in the country is raising money through various charitable efforts in the name of the 1998 Hooters Calendar Cover girl and former Hooters Manager Kelly Jo Dowd, who lost her battle with breast cancer 2 years ago. In addition to the car wash on May 9th, the Hooter...

Studies Examine Quality of Care for Hospitalized Sickle Cell Disease Patients and Effective Methods for Detecting Risk of Stroke in Children With This Disorder

...ow focuses on hematologists as they work to unravel medical mysteries and save lives. One of the key stories featured is that of Alexandria, a teenage girl being treated for sickle cell anemia who previously suffered a silent stroke; her hematologist, Michael DeBaun, MD, who is featured in the film, along...

Enobia Initiates Infantile Enzyme Replacement Trial for Rare Bone Disease

... Baby girl with Hypophosphatasia Treated With ENB-0040 at Chi...SC AS PART OF INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRIAL Infant girl From Belfast Flown To Winnipeg WINNIPEG - A 9-month-old baby girl from Belfast is receiving potentially life-saving ...

Behavioral Modification Programs Help Obese Children Manage Their Weight

...a measure of weight adjusted for the height, age and sex of a child) at or above the 95th percentile for their age and sex. For example, a 16-year-old girl who is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 168 pounds or more is considered obese. Obese children and adolescents are at higher risk for asthma, type 2 di...

Tampax and Always Launch Protecting Futures Program Dedicated to Helping African Girls Stay in School

...ate sanitation facilities in schools.(1) And, if a girl has no access to protective materials or if the ma...proximately 4 days every 4 weeks may result in the girl missing 10 to 20 percent of her school days.(2) Th...Kenya two years ago through a partnership with the girl Child Network (GCN) and is a part of P&G corporate...

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Atransferrinemia

...rnal resources 2-year old Violet, a young European girl with atransferrinemia. ICD - 9 273.8 OMIM 209300 ... cell are altered. A case study was done in 1961 on a 7-year-old girl who passed away from heart failure with atransferrinemia. The half-normal ...

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Vulvovaginitis

...nitis is inflammation of the vulva and vaginal tissues. ... General Approach to Vulvovaginitis ... Contact Vulvovaginitis ... prepubertal girl with vulvovaginitis . ... Prepubertal girls are more susceptible to vulvovaginitis due to several factors that ... What is vulvovaginitis ? Me...

Tick paralysis

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Teeth

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Parrot Fever

...arrot Fever ' Death: PetSmart to Blame? ... Family Suing Over Man's Rare ' Parrot Fever ' Death. by MIKE VON FREMD. June 30, 2008 ... A little girl loses her life to a rare strain of disease brought into the home by a pet ... " Parrot fever " is an extremely rare form of bacterial pneumoni...

Menarche

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Mallory

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Lesion

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Iris

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Hymen

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Hiccup

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Researcher finds Girl Scout meetings provide an opportunity to increase girls' physical activity

Girls typically are less physically active than boys, but a Kansas State University researcher has found that organizations like Girl Scouts provide an ideal setting to get girls moving early in life and to develop lifelong healthy habits. Richard Rosenkranz, assistant professor in human nutrit...

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...

Hurricane Katrina: Phone home

...er Yaron and doctoral fellow Noam David reported on their research in the April 2009 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics . Information the weather girl can use Cell phone towers emit radio waves that are diminished by moisture in the air, a factor that can be used to improve model warnings on floo...

Ovarian transplantation: First baby is born after a new technique

...ked to restore ovarian function quickly and already one patient from his clinic had had a baby and another had become pregnant. "On June 22, a baby girl was born to a mother who had been menopausal for two years as a result of treatment for sickle cell anaemia. After transplanting her own ovarian tissu...

Camphor-containing products may cause seizures in children

... apartment to control roaches. In the third case, a three-year-old Hispanic girl had been heavily exposed to numerous camphor-containing products, including...er skin hourly for 10 hours before her seizures began. (Interestingly, this girl and two of her siblings had a history of seizures that may have been due to...

Selected personal letters of Max Perutz are released in new book

...tter writer," Vivien wrote in the book's preface. "He nurtured his skills as a writer from his teenage years, first in letters he wrote to an English girl friend and later to his family, honing his ability to tell a good story and to breathe life into his observations of people and places." With a bac...

Chinese slimming capsules

... Fifteen women and two men exhibited symptoms of poisoning, including nausea, tachycardia, headache, agitation, dyspnea, and insomnia. A 14-year old girl had to be admitted to a psychiatric ward because of acute confusion. A man developed a psychosis after taking the capsules. Severe symptoms of poisoni...

'Freaks' help scientist unravel nature and nurture

... hand-walker. And in Minnesota, conjoined twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel live successfully with separate heads connected to a single body. Each girl controls her own arm, but they manage to drive, swim, shuffle cards and play piano. In his latest book, " Freaks of Nature ," University of Iowa ps...

2 genes influence social behavior, visual-spatial performance in people with Williams syndrome

... one GTF2I gene. This allowed identification of a girl who had retained GTF2I but didn't fit the classical description of the disorder. "Finding this girl was very exciting," Korenberg said. "Her case had ...e genes." When the Salk researchers tested the girl to measure her IQ and social behavior, they found ...

Boy or girl? It's in the father's genes

..."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 if they hav...ome. An X chromosome combines with the mother's X chromosome to make a baby girl (XX) and a Y chromosome will combine with the mother's to make a boy (XY). ...

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How a Midwestern girl became the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar software company

Carol Bartz Carol Bartz was raised by her grandparents in Alma, Wisconsin, a town of some 800 souls on the banks of the Mississippi river. In high school, Bartz was a cheerleader. She programmed her first computer in 1968, while studying computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ...

Madison tech college to host Girl Tech 2007

Madison, Wis. - At least 45 girls in grades six through nine are expected to take part in Girl Tech 2007, which will be held June 26 to 28 at Madison Area Technical College . The program, sponsored by area technology employers to encourage young women to consider future careers in science and...

CEL-SCI Corporation Releases Letter to Shareholders

...ame time, the second and third global cases of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu were reported. Significantly, the third case was reported in a 16-year-old girl (Hong Kong) who was Tamiflu resistant even though she had never been treated with Tamiflu: she was infected with swine flu viruses that already were ...

IVF Baby Born From 21-Year-Old Frozen Sperm, Ties World Record

....C., April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Fertility specialists of Reproductive Endocrinology Associates of Charlotte (REACH) herald the successful birth of a baby girl March 4 who was conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) at their laboratory with sperm frozen for 21 years, which they believe ties the world...

Beverly Hills Surgeon Dr. Payman Simoni Applauds Obama Administration's New Direction in Stem Cell Research

...t stem cells have even been used in reconstructive plastic surgery. In 2004, surgeons in Germany used stems cells from fat tissue of a seven year old girl to help repair major damage to her skull. The large hole in the skull is now replaced by solid bone. In 2006, researchers in UCLA announced successfu...

Ferring Celebrates Winner of 2008 My Little Miracle Essay Contest During National Infertility Awareness Week

...u to where you find that joy. I found my joy. I felt it as I rocked my baby girl to sleep last night." "We at RMIA are so happy to have contributed to Sar...rth all of the hard work. In Sara and Michael's case, it's a beautiful baby girl and a substantial start to her college education. We are proud to be a part...

Cliff Consulting, Inc. Adds Two Influential Former Executives to Its Team - Banker Mary P. Carryer and Healthcare IT Leader Robert Goldstein

...ards and led strategic planning processes for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Northern California Chapter, the Hawaii Nature Center, and the girl Scouts of Hawaii. "I like the partnering orientation of Cliff Consulting and found them to be an invaluable resource when I was an executive at Well...

California IVF Experts Tap Ethics Committee for Guidance

...sult in unused embryos, which turned out not to be the case. The committee is currently exploring the case of a man who requested sex selection for a girl because of a pattern of father-son abuse that occurred in his family. He was afraid that he might also become mentally ill some day and abuse a son. ...

One Year On, ALLERCA Hypoallergenic Cats Bring 'Sneeze Free' Companionship to Allergy and Asthma Sufferers

...sold off his interest in the hypoallergenic cat long ago, he remains actively involved and is pleased with how the business is growing. "When a little girl tells me this (her hypoallergenic cat) is the best thing ever to happen to her, then I know we really have something unique and special." Based on th...

Maybe its time to write our own television shows about Wisconsin

...l. Sex and the Silo: The lives and loves of four urbane but somewhat lonely women from Grant County. Dharma and Ole: A cute but wacky hippie girl from Madison marries a sophisticated Norwegian guy from Westby. Just Shoot It: The editors of a fashion magazine go hunting for deer infected wit...

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Avian influenza

...rus has been suspected. In one case the original carrier, who received the disease from a bird, was held by her mother for roughly 5 days as the young girl died. Shortly afterwards, the mother became ill and perished as well. In March, 2005 it was revealed that two nurses who had cared for avian flu patie...

Twin

... of male sex hormones , this fetus develops as a girl by default, but a girl with only one X chromosome (chromosome type XO)....l. As a result of her genetic abnormality, the girl will suffer from Turner syndrome , which is disti...

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Siphon

...ctionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. Supernatural suspense dealing with one 'man's' pursuit of a special girl and the havok he creates getting to her. ...

Oocytes

...ytes followed by fertilization in ... Progress with IVM has been hindered by the scarcity of suitable human oocytes for research. ... A baby girl is born with egg cells ( oocytes ) in her ovaries. ... The many thousands of oocytes that do not mature degenerate. ... cases because those c...

Homozygote

...e cell or organism in question is called a homozygote . ... Online Medical Dictionary and glossary with medical definitions ... For example, a girl who is a homozygote for cystic fibrosis (CF) received the CF ... homozygote n. An organism that has the same alleles at a particular gene ...

Epidermis

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Double stranded

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Dominant

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Cos site

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Belly

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Amine

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