Gene that stunts infants’ growth also makes them grow too big

Source: IndiaVision

London - The mutation responsible for IMAGe syndrome â a rare disorder that stunts infantsâ growth â has been identified, and surprisingly it occurs on the same gene that causes Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, which makes cells grow too fast, leading ...
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Allenex AB: Tulane Starts a Prospective Trial of XM-ONE® in Kidney Transplantation

Source: Business Wire

“It is our belief that patients at higher risk for rejection can be identified using XM-ONE® technology” Tulane University Hospital, New Orleans, LA, USA will in May start a prospective trial in Kidney Transplantation investigating the potent ...
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Genetic Mutation Can Lead To Too Much Or Too Little Growth

Source: Medical News Today

Main Category: Genetics Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 28 May 2012 - 1:00 PDT A gene previously linked to too much growth in patients has now also been linked to growth restriction. Different forms of the ...
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A visible sacrifice: Bomb blast robs Iowa sailor of parts of four limbs

Source: Des Moines Register

The bomb blast in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, earlier this month took so much from Taylor Morris, a former soccer player and top-notch wrestler at Cedar Falls High School. Morris, 23, lost his right leg at the knee, his l ...
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Source: InCapitalHealth

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Real Life: Parents of girl born with heart in wrong place and two left lungs 'cherish' every day they spend with her

Source: The Daily Record

Lauren McDermid on the day she was born LAUREN McDermid is overjoyed by simple activities – walking to school, joining the Brownies and dancing at ballet. That is because when she was born, her parents feared she wouldn’t survive. Her heart and ...
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Cuba, SA health deal is in good shape

Source: Business Day

FOURTEEN years ago, Kholekile Shasha joined SA’s nascent doctor training programme in Cuba, unaware of how controversial the state-sponsored initiative would turn out to be. He came from a poor family, and ...
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Glamorous Gellhorn could have own movie

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I’m looking forward to seeing St. Louis gal Martha Gellhorn in HBO’s “Hemingway and Gellhorn.” The former war correspondent, who lived from 1908-98, had a fascinating life. Marriage to Ernest Hemingway wasn’t the high point. In 1944, she managed ...
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APGA Crisis - Change or Face the Consequences, Bianca Ojukwu Warns Umeh

Source: AllAfrica.com

As efforts to resolve the crisis rocking the All Progressive GrandAlliance (APGA} continue to meet brick walls, Ambassador Bianca, wife of Ex-Biafran Warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu has warned thatif the National Chairman of the par ...
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