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Spotting Fetal Growth Problems Early Could Cut UK Stillbirths by 600 a Year
January 25, 2013 — Growth restriction in an unborn child is the single largest risk factor for stillbirth, especially when it goes unrecognized before birth, finds a new study. Yet it is currently missed in most ... > full story -
Do Common Painkillers Cause Kidney Failure in Children?
January 25, 2013 — Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen and naproxen, are commonly used to treat pain and reduce fever in children. However, the use of NSAIDs has been shown to cause acute ... > full story -
Chance Finding Reveals New Control on Blood Vessels in Developing Brain
January 24, 2013 — Zhen Huang freely admits he was not interested in blood vessels four years ago when he was studying brain development in a fetal mouse. Instead, he wanted to see how changing a particular gene in ... > full story -
Prenatal Inflammation Linked to Autism Risk
January 24, 2013 — Maternal inflammation during early pregnancy may be related to an increased risk of autism in children, according to new findings. Researchers found this in children of mothers with elevated ... > full story -
Cancer-Causing Virus Found in Brain Shows Potential Connection to Epilepsy
January 24, 2013 — Researchers have evidence linking HPV16, the most common cause of cervical cancer, to a form of epilepsy. They've shown that HPV16 may be present in the human brain, and when they added a viral ... > full story -
Tall and Thin Not So Great for Lung Disease
January 23, 2013 — Tall, thin women face a greater risk of infection with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), cousins of the organism that causes tuberculosis, according to researchers. Women with NTM infections also ... > full story -
Whole-Exome Sequencing Identifies Inherited Mutations in Autism
January 23, 2013 — While autism clearly runs in some families, few inherited genetic causes have been found. A major reason is that these causes are so varied that it's hard to find enough people with a given mutation ... > full storyMore: -
Less Tau Reduces Seizures and Sudden Death in Severe Epilepsy
January 22, 2013 — Deleting or reducing expression of a gene that carries the code for tau, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease, can prevent seizures in a severe type of epilepsy linked to sudden death, said ... > full story -
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Stem Cell Research Helps to Identify Origins of Schizophrenia
January 22, 2013 — New research demonstrates how defects in an important neurological pathway in early development may be responsible for the onset of schizophrenia later in ... > full story -
Potential to Prevent, Reverse Disabilities in Children Born Prematurely, Study Suggests
January 17, 2013 — Researchers report for the first time that low blood and oxygen flow to the developing brain does not, as previously thought, cause an irreversible loss of brain cells, but rather disrupts the cells' ... > full story
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