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  Work Stress Leads To Heart Disease And Diabetes

  January 23, 2006 — Stress at work is an important risk factor for the development of heart disease and diabetes, finds a study published online by the British Medical ... > full story
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  Mayo Collaboration Identifies Gene In Childhood Kidney Disease

  January 18, 2006 — An international research collaboration led by Mayo Clinic has identified a new gene involved in causing the inherited kidney disorder, Meckel-Gruber syndrome (MKS). Children with MKS have central ... > full story
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  Researchers Develop Mouse Model For Genetic Mental Retardation Syndrome

  January 8, 2006 — Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine took a step closer to understanding the basis of a severe epilepsy and mental retardation syndrome with work published ... > full story
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  Viral Infection At Birth Linked To Cerebral Palsy

  January 6, 2006 — Exposure to certain viral infections shortly before and after birth (the perinatal period) is associated with cerebral palsy, finds a study published online by the British Medical Journal. These ... > full story
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  Down Syndrome And Cleft Lip, Palate Most Prevalent Birth Defects

  January 6, 2006 — Among 18 major birth defects included in this study, cleft lip and/or palate had the highest prevalence, followed by Down Syndrome, according to research that for the first time provides ... > full story
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  Penn Study Reveals Prevalence Of Night Eating Syndrome Among People With Psychiatric Conditions

  January 1, 2006 — According to a study that appears in the January 1 issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the University of Minnesota found ... > full story
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  Molecule Links Down Syndrome To Alzheimer's

  December 6, 2005 — Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London have identified a molecule that could be targeted to treat the cognitive impairment in people with Down syndrome. The study, ... > full story
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  Mutations In HRAS Gene Sequence Confirmed In Patients With Costello Syndrome

  December 2, 2005 — Gene mutations in the HRAS sequence are present in most patients affected with Costello syndrome, according to a new study in the American Journal of Medical ... > full story
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  Slight Increased Risk Of Major Birth Defects Associated With IVF

  November 30, 2005 — Babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), a method of assisted reproduction, have a slightly increased risk of major birth defects, such as heart or muscle and skeletal defects, compared ... > full story
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  Womb Needed For Proper Brain Development

  November 22, 2005 — The brains of babies born very prematurely do not develop as well as those who are carried to full-term, according to new research presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in ... > full story

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