News tagged with birth defects
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Health uncertainties torment Japanese in nuke zone
(AP) -- Yoshiko Ota keeps her windows shut. She never hangs her laundry outdoors. Fearful of birth defects, she warns her daughters: Never have children.
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Malaysian court asked to stop rare earths plant
Malaysian activists said on Friday they had filed a court challenge to block a rare earths plant being built by Australian miner Lynas, which has stoked fears over radiation pollution.
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Australian to lead thalidomide suit
An Australian woman born without arms and legs will lead a mass lawsuit against the German and British firms behind thalidomide, a sedative blamed for birth defects, lawyers said Saturday.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 25, 2011 |
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Hunting for the good news in the human genome
One of the most common and most disabling birth defects, spina bifida strikes about one in 1,000 births in the United States -- nearly as many as Down’s Syndrome. The cause of this often devastating ...
Apr 29, 2011 |
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Disease clusters showing up all over the United States
(PhysOrg.com) -- When most people think of the term 'disease clusters', the cancer cluster in Hinkley, California made famous by the movie Erin Brockovich usually comes to mind. However, the Natural Resour ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 30, 2011 |
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Gene is linked to colon cancer when folate's low
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers report that they have identified a gene that increases the risk for colon cancer in laboratory mice when their diets lack folate.
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Gene causing birth defects in mice discovered
Cornell researchers report that they have identified a gene that causes neural tube defects (NTDs) in laboratory mice. NTDs, also known as spina bifida and anencephaly, are one of the most common birth defects in the United ...
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Exploiting cancer cells' weaknesses
When designing new cancer drugs, biologists often target specific gene mutations found only in cancer cells, or in a subset of cancer cells. A team of MIT biologists is now taking a slightly different approach, ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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FDA warns of birth defects with Topamax
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is warning women of child-bearing age that the epilepsy drug Topamax can increase the risk of birth defects around the mouth.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Adult care for congenital heart disease patients should begin in adolescence
Doctors should transition their patients from pediatric to adult medical care for congenital heart disease during early adolescence, experts recommend in a scientific statement published in Circulation: Journal of the Am ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Ear to the future: Donated cells transform from lab to mouse
Within a Northeast Ohio lab, a hairless mouse is growing an ear from the cells of a Wadsworth, Ohio, preschooler.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Key to how cells, including cancer, migrate and invade the body discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers has identified unexpected and powerful cell-regulating functions in a protease known as ADAM 13, a discovery that holds promise for ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Offspring of female rats given folic acid supplements develop more breast cancer
The daughters of rats who took folic acid supplements before conception, during pregnancy and while breast-feeding have breast cancer rates twice as high as other rats, according to a new study.
Feb 11, 2011 |
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Study proves benefits of spina bifida surgery
Results of a landmark, seven-year National Institutes of Health-funded trial, Management of Myelomeningocele Study (MOMS), demonstrate clear benefit for babies who undergo fetal surgery to treat spina bifida, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Basis of mobility disorders to be studied using 3-D simulations of patients' movements
A stroll around the block, a quick hand-written note to your neighbor, a giggling game of tag -- it's easy for many of us to take activities like these for granted. But for children and adults with movement ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 24, 2011 |
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