Showing posts with label Pediatrics / Children's Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pediatrics / Children's Health. Show all posts
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Six-month-old conjoined twin sisters separated in Haiti

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On Friday, May 22, physicians and nurses separated a pair of six-month-old conjoined Haitian twins, the first such operation ever performed...

Surgical anesthesia in young children linked to effects on IQ, brain structure

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Children who received general anesthesia for surgery before age 4 had diminished language comprehension, lower IQ and decreased gray matter...

Data scientists find connections between birth month and health

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This data visualization maps the statistical relationship between birth month and disease incidence in the electronic records of 1.7 mi...

The infant gut microbiome: New studies on its origins and how it's knocked out of balance

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A fecal sample analysis of 98 Swedish infants over the first year of life found a connection between the development of a child's gut m...

Do newborns delivered by C-section face higher risk of chronic health problems later in life?

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The evidence as to whether newborns delivered by C-section are more likely to develop chronic diseases later in life has been examined by i...

Impact of insecticides on the cognitive development of 6-year-old children

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Researchers have provided new evidence of neurotoxicity in humans from pyrethroid insecticides, which are found in a wide variety of produc...
Thursday, June 4, 2015

Stroke: not just an adult's condition

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When you hear the word "stroke," the first picture that pops into your mind is likely to be of an elderly individual. It's tr...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Stroke: not just an adult's condition

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When you hear the word "stroke," the first picture that pops into your mind is likely to be of an elderly individual. It's tr...