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Genetic link to vitamin A deficiency

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost half of UK women may be lacking an important source of vitamin A due to a previously undiscovered genetic variation, scientists at Newcastle University have found.


Local health investigation sheds light on gastroschisis birth defect

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Results of an investigation conducted by University of Nevada, Reno researchers, public health officials and area physicians published this week in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, indicate that Washoe County ...


Boys with urogenital birth defects are 33 percent more common in villages sprayed with DDT

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Women who lived in villages sprayed with DDT to reduce malaria gave birth to 33 per cent more baby boys with urogenital birth defects (UGBD) between 2004 and 2006 than women in unsprayed villages, according to research published ...


Fetal study highlights impact of stress on male fertility

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exposure to a combination of excess stress hormones and chemicals while in the womb could affect a man's fertility in later life, a study suggests.


When someone is raised female and the genes say XY

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created Sep 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 38

(AP) -- It's the birth defect people don't talk about. A baby is born not completely male or female. The old term was hermaphrodite, then intersex. Now it's called "disorders of sexual development." Sometimes the person ...


Why the thumb of the right hand is on the left hand side

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

It is the concentration of a few signaling molecules that determines the fate of individual cells during the early development of organisms. In the renowned journal Current Biology, a team of molecular biologists led by Pia ...


St. Louis hospital to study birth defect

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created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A top children's hospital wants to improve the survival rate of infants born with a birth defect that many families have never heard of until their child is diagnosed.


Researcher investigates link between folic acid and heart health, anemia

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created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Georgia State University researcher and his colleague are investigating the effects of a decade-long requirement to fortify all cereals in the United States with folic acid, and its link with a chemical ...


Girl's birth defect exacts financial toll

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Since their Katelyn was born five years ago, Cheryl and Christopher Woodley have known the stress of rearing a child with special medical needs.