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Researchers find gene location that gives rise to neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer
Using advanced gene-hunting technology, an international team of researchers has for the first time identified a chromosome region that is…
08 May 2008
Steroids provide no survival benefit for children with bacterial meningitis
Corticosteroids given to children who are hospitalised for bacterial meningitis do not provide a benefit in survival or in reduced…
08 May 2008
Vegetarian Diets
Vegetarians are people who exclude animal meat from their diet. A vegetarian diet comprises mainly of fruits and vegetables. There are a number of health…
08 May 2008
Researchers have found a link between gluten and brain damage
Gluten is damaging our brains! Paediatrician, gastroenterologist, allergist and author, Dr Rodney Ford has found a link between gluten and brain…
05 May 2008
1 in 10 children using cough, cold medications
Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center have found that approximately one in ten U.S. children uses one or more…
04 May 2008
New treatment could reduce chronic lung disease in premature babies
A less traumatic way of delivering surfactant, a lung lubricant that premature babies need to help them breathe, could reduce…
30 Apr 2008
Factors affecting survival, disability of extremely premature infants identified
Gestational age has long been the factor most commonly used to predict whether an extremely low-birth-weight infant survives and thrives,…
30 Apr 2008
Researchers light up lungs to help diagnose disease
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed innovative technology which illuminates a person´s lungs and helps clinicians identify if…
29 Apr 2008
Local researchers join international effort to search for the causes of autism
Two thousand families are sought for unique new study Saint Louis University researchers are involved in a multi-site consortium to…
24 Apr 2008
