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Neurostimulation Helps Children’s Intractable Constipation, Study Finds
June 11, 2013 Home treatment with a simple, battery-operated system that applies four sticky electrode patches to the mid-section allowed a group of children with the most difficult-to-treat, possibly congenital, ... > full story -
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Why Is My Baby Hospitalized? Many Moms in Under-Developed Countries Don't Know the Answer
June 11, 2013 Communication gap between moms and providers in low-income countries about why sick newborns are hospitalized puts babies at higher health ... > full story -
Partial Livers from Deceased Donors Saving the Lives of Infants
June 11, 2013 New research reveals that transplantation of partial livers from deceased adult and teen donors has become less risky for infants and young children, helping to save these young lives. New findings ... > full story -
Intervention to Reduce Lifelong Effects Associated With Childhood Neglect and Emotional Abuse
June 10, 2013 Preschool children who have been neglected or emotionally abused exhibit a range of emotional and behavioral difficulties and adverse mother-child interactions that indicate these children require ... > full story -
Study Examines Cancer Risk from Pediatric Radiation Exposure from CT Scans
June 10, 2013 According to a study of seven U.S. healthcare systems, the use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head, abdomen/pelvis, chest or spine, in children younger than age 14 more than doubled from ... > full story -
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Reduced Brain Volume in Kids With Low Birth-Weight Tied to Academic Struggles
June 10, 2013 An analysis of recent data from magnetic resonance imaging of 97 adolescents who were part of study begun with very low birth weight babies born in 1982-1986 in a Cleveland neonatal intensive care ... > full story -
Do Antidepressants Impair the Ability to Extinguish Fear?
June 10, 2013 Common antidepressant medications may impair a form of learning that is important clinically. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly called SSRIs, are a class of antidepressant widely used ... > full story -
MRI Detects Early Effects of Chemotherapy on Children's Hearts
June 9, 2013 MRI scans of children who have had chemotherapy can detect early changes in their ... > full story -
Rare Mitochondrial Mutations – Maybe Not So Rare? Comprehensive Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Will Aid Early Diagnosis
June 8, 2013 Scientists have discovered that supposedly rare mutations in the mitochondria, the ‘power plants’ of human cells responsible for creating energy, account for more than 7% of patients with ... > full story -
Common Genetic Disease Linked to Father's Age
June 7, 2013 Scientists have unlocked the mystery of why new cases of the genetic disease Noonan syndrome are so common; a mutation that causes the disease disproportionately increases a normal father's ... > full story
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