Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Why does my hip hurt? Hip pain can have many causes and mostly doesn't require surgery
You can feel hip pain at any stage of life, including childhood, young adulthood and the middle years.
Dec 18, 2025
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Musculoskeletal Diseases: News and Research on Musculoskeletal Abnormalities
MeSH tree: C05.660
Genetics
Tapt1 gene found crucial for protein balance and healthy brain development
A research team led by Prof. Xu Zhiheng from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified Tapt1, together with its partner Suco, as important genes for brain development. ...
Dec 15, 2025
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Surgery
Nerve block may reduce opioid use in infants undergoing cleft palate surgery
For infants undergoing cleft palate surgery, local anesthetic injection targeting the maxillary nerve of the face may reduce or eliminate the need for opioid medications to control postoperative pain, reports a study in The ...
Dec 14, 2025
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Genetics
How errors in the cytoskeleton lead to a smaller brain
Why do some children develop a brain that is too small (microcephaly)? An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover Medical School (MHH), and ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Genetics
Uncovering the why behind cleft lip and palate with live imaging and gene editing
Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal development, can result in babies with facial differences such as a cleft lip or cleft palate. If not treated, ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Genetics
How a gene shapes the architecture of the human brain
Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim and the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate ...
Nov 28, 2025
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Surgery
Tympanostomy tube placement improves hearing for children with cleft palate: Study
For children with cleft palate, tympanostomy tube placement improves hearing outcomes, according to a study published online Sept. 25 in the Ear, Nose & Throat Journal.
Oct 10, 2025
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Zika virus may raise long-term risks of type 2 diabetes
It has been ten years since Brazil faced a major outbreak of the Zika virus. The alert was given in 2015, when the country's north-eastern states reported a sudden increase in the number of babies born with unusually small ...
Sep 29, 2025
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Addiction
Smoking decline linked to fewer newborns with gastroschisis, research finds
A decline in smoking in the general population, including pregnant people, over the last few decades corresponded with a decline in infants born with a birth defect called gastroschisis, according to research presented during ...
Sep 26, 2025
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Genetics
Uncovering drivers of—and possible treatment for—Noonan syndrome heart defects
Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines (NSML) is a rare genetic disorder that causes short stature, distinctive facial features, and clusters of dark skin spots called lentigines. But its most serious impact is a dangerous ...
Sep 16, 2025
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