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Mother's vitamin D status during pregnancy will affect her baby's dental health
Low maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy may affect primary tooth calcification, leading to enamel defects, which are a risk factor for early-childhood tooth decay.   view more (2008-07-07)

How to identify early graft dysfunction preoperatively?
Small-for-size graft dysfunction (SFSGD) following living-related liver transplantation (LRLT) is characterized by early graft dysfunction (EGD) when the graft-to-recipient body weight ratio (GRBWR) is below 0.8%.   view more (2009-10-16)

Children and their Body Image
The development of a Children's Body Image Scale (CBIS) may help in the early identification of dissatisfaction with body size in pre-pubescent children. These research findings are published today, 21st June 2002, in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology by Dr Helen Truby, School of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Surrey and Dr... view more... (2002-06-10)

New rabies vaccine may require only a single shot... not 6
A person, usually a child, dies of rabies every 20 minutes. However, only one inoculation may be all it takes for rabies vaccination, according to new research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases by researchers at the Jefferson Vaccine Center.   view more (2009-09-21)

Umbilical cord clamping should be delayed, says expert
Clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord should be delayed for three minutes after birth, particularly for pre-term infants, suggests a senior doctor in this week's BMJ.   view more (2007-08-17)

Novel cancer drug reduces neuroblastoma growth by 75 percent
Researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found a new drug that restricts the growth of neuroblastoma, a childhood brain cancer.   view more (2009-04-24)

Italian researchers find fenretinide cuts the risk of second breast cancers in young women
A 15-year follow-up of women in a breast cancer trial has found that fenretinide[1] - a drug related to vitamin A - significantly cuts the risk of a second breast cancer among younger patients.   view more (2006-05-04)

Diabetes under-diagnosed in coronary artery disease patients
On the occasion of World Diabetes Day, 14 November 2003, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) highlights the need for improved diagnosis of diabetes in coronary artery disease patients France, 14 November 2003: Preliminary findings from the ESC Euro Heart Survey entitled 'Diabetes and the Heart' suggest that diabetes is not only grossly... view more... (2003-11-12)

Birth of musical protégés? How music heard in the womb is remembered by the child
A study carried out at the University of Leicester, to be shown on BBC's Child Of Our Time today (Wednesday July 11, BBC1, 9pm) reveals for the first time that babies remember sounds they heard in the womb - and recognise them well into later life. The study, by Dr Alexandra Lamont from the Music Research Group at the University's School of... view more... (2001-07-10)

Progress report on Homogeneous Assay project
International medical diagnostics company Panbio Limited today announced that it has achieved some encouraging results in the development of its Homogeneous Assay Technology.   view more (2006-07-24)

New middleware emphasises security and useability
A new middleware package which will take grid computing out of research laboratories and into industry will be pre-released on 25 October. The middleware is the first to be released by the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII), whose mission is to become the UK source for reliable, open-source Grid Middleware.   view more (2004-10-22)

Pre-pregnancy depressed mood may heighten risk for premature birth
Researchers trying to uncover why premature birth is a growing problem in the United States and one that disproportionately affects black women have found that pre-pregnancy depressive mood appears to be a risk factor in preterm birth among both blacks and whites.   view more (2009-06-11)

Environmental tobacco smoke linked to behavior problems in children and pre-teens
A new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study shows that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated with behavior problems in children and pre-teens.   view more (2006-05-01)

New survey results show huge burden of diabetes
In the United States, nearly 13 percent of adults age 20 and older have diabetes, but 40 percent of them have not been diagnosed, according to epidemiologists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose study includes newly available data from an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT).   view more (2009-01-27)

Researchers Plan to Connect Petrol Stations to Natural Gas Supply to Fuel Hydrogen Powered Cars
Researchers at the University of Warwick's Warwick Process Technology Group are leading a programme called "Hydrofueler" to develop technology to connect petrol stations to the normal natural gas supply to fuel hydrogen powered vehicles. The 2.8 million euro EC funded three year research programme has already drawn interest from Exxon... view more... (2003-02-14)

Combination anti-retroviral therapies associated with reduced infections in HIV-infected children
Since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapies, there has been a substantial reduction of opportunistic infections and other infections in HIV-infected children, such as pneumonia and tuberculosis.   view more (2006-07-19)

One-third of adults with diabetes still don't know they have it
The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in U.S. adults age 20 and older has risen from about 5.1 percent to 6.5 percent, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who analyzed national survey data from two periods—1988 to 1994 and 1999 to 2002.   view more (2006-05-30)

Give us clearer picture on Treasury transparency - top fiscal expert tells Chancellor
On the eve of Chancellor Gordon Brown's Pre-Budget Speech this Wednesday, Professor David Heald of Sheffield University has examined the Government's actual track record on fiscal transparency - one of the key aspects of the much-vaunted Code for Fiscal Stability - and urged the Government to spin less and inform more. The idea behind fiscal... view more... (2003-12-03)

Where tumor cells boldly go: Weill Cornell cancer biologists shed light on the metastatic niche
Traditionally, cancer biologists have embraced a simple and direct model of the disease process: The tumor -- the "seed" -- was seen as bearing total responsibility for the spread of cancer to distant tissues -- the "soil" in which the seed embedded itself, grew, and reproduced.   view more (2009-05-04)

Significant differences in growth of male and female embryos after ICSI
There is a clear difference in growth rate between male and female pre-implantation embryos created by ICSI, but not after IVF, a scientist said today at the 20th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.   Dr John Dumoulin, of the Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands told... view more... (2004-06-29)
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