Heart valve disease
More children born with heart defects now survive to adulthood, suggesting a future surge in heart complications, a Canadian study shows.
A Kiwi Legacy in the Middle East
As we busied ourselves with the countdown to our recent Christmas and New Year celebrations, there was a small Kiwi medical team in the Holy Land demonstrating the true ’spirit of Christmas’…
Applications Filed for Stem Cell Funding: $15 Million in Md. Grants Available to Scientists
By Chris Emery, The Baltimore Sun Jan. 9–Facing a midnight deadline, Dr. Elias Zambidis scrambled yesterday to stake his claim to some of the millions of dollars in state stem cell research funding earmarked for Maryland scientists.
Stem cell research: The ‘untouchables’ of US science
Bush’s ban on stem cell funding put researchers into quarantine. Ed Pilkington reports.
Regulatory Pathway In Brain Development Possible Basis For Malformations
Researchers at UCSD School of Medicine have identified a genetic regulator of brain development that sheds new light on how immature neural cells choose between proliferation and differentiation. Defects in regulating this choice result in brain malformations. Their research will be published on line the week of December 4, in advance of publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of …
Strokes: Causes, Symptoms And Treatment
During a stroke, a blood vessel supplying blood to the brain bursts or is blocked by a blood clot. Brain cells can be damaged within minutes. Learn more about how to prevent, recognize and treat strokes.
Congenital Heart Disease Increasingly More Common In Adults, Children
The prevalence of congenital heart disease (CHD) has increased strikingly in adults and children in a new population study, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.Severe CHD has risen in adults by 85 percent and 22 percent in children during the 15-year study (1985-2000). [click link for full article]
Applications filed for stem cell funding
$15 million in Md. grants available to scientists Facing a midnight deadline, Dr. Elias Zambidis scrambled yesterday to stake his claim to some of the millions of dollars in state stem cell research funding earmarked for Maryland scientists.
People With Congenital Heart Disease Living Longer
Title: People With Congenital Heart Disease Living Longer Category: Health News Created: 1/10/2007 2:06:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 1/10/2007 2:05:55 AM
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