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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.





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St. Louis hospital to study birth defect

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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.


New insights into thalidomide-birth defect episode

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created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists in Germany have discovered why the medication thalidomide appeared safe in animal tests before going on the market 50 years ago, only to cause perhaps the most extensive outbreak of drug-induced birth defects in ...


Sexually transmitted disease, urinary tract infections may be bad combination for birth defect

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created Jun 20, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

[B]Chances of gastroschisis increase fourfold in babies whose moms have both infections[/B] Women who reported having both a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and urinary tract infection (UTI) just before or during ear ...


Time of conception linked to birth defects in United States

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created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A study published in the April 2009 issue of the medical journal Acta Pædiatrica is the first to report that birth defect rates in the United States were highest for women conceiving in the spring and summer. The researchers also f ...


Epilepsy drug may increase risk of birth defects

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created Jul 21, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taking the epilepsy drug topiramate alone or along with other epilepsy drugs during pregnancy may increase the risk of birth defects, according to a study published in the July 22, 2008, issue of Neurology, the medical journa ...


Breakthrough in birth-defect research

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created Mar 06, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have discovered how to prevent certain craniofacial disorders in what could ultimately lead to at-risk babies being treated in the womb.


Clue to genetic cause of fatal birth defect

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A novel enzyme may play a major role in anencephaly, offering hope for a genetic test or even therapy for the rare fatal birth defect in which the brain fails to develop, according to a study from researchers at the University ...


Local health investigation sheds light on gastroschisis birth defect

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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 ...


Brain malformations significantly associated with preterm birth

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created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine provides for the first time a solid scientific answer for the long-standing question of whether there is an association between preterm birth and brain malformations.


Study finds association between male birth defect and certain genetic mutations

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created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A small percentage of males born with cryptorchidism (failure of one or both testicles to descend into the scrotum), the most frequent congenital birth defect in male children, are more likely to have genetic mutations, including ...



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