A mutation in a gene crucial to normal heart development could play a role in some types of congenital heart disease—the most common birth defect in the U.S. The finding, from a team in The Research Institute at Nationwide ...
Jul 29, 2013
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Scientists now have clues to how a gene mutation discovered in families affected with congenital heart disease leads to underdevelopment of the walls that separate the heart into four chambers. A Nationwide Children's Hospital ...
Jun 26, 2012
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Spring has sprung and in many parts of the country, so have the mosquitoes. In light of the current Zika epidemic, experts at the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine tell you what you need to ...
Apr 27, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Five causes of death accounted for 89.5 percent of fetal deaths reported during 2015 to 2017, according to a report published April 15 in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Vital Statistics ...
Apr 15, 2020
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Five selected causes of death accounted for 89.8 percent of fetal deaths in a reporting area of 41 states and the District of Columbia for 2018 to 2020, according to a report published online Oct. 19 in National Vital Statistics ...
Oct 20, 2022
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Patients with specific cardiac conditions such as valvular heart disease and congenital abnormalities, or those requiring a pacemaker, should practice good dental and skin hygiene to help prevent rare but potentially deadly ...
Aug 25, 2023
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(HealthDay)—The first-ever nonsurgical heart valve to treat patients with severe pulmonary valve regurgitation, often resulting from congenital heart disease, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency ...
Mar 30, 2021
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Washington State University reproductive biologists have ruled out one of the leading thoughts on why older women have an increased risk of miscarriages and children with birth defects.
Jul 3, 2014
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Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have demonstrated that newly mutated variants of a key protein involved in supporting chromosomes result in several issues ranging from developmental delays to epilepsy ...
Dec 3, 2020
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The use of genome-wide array analysis in parents whose children are suspected of having a genetic disease shows that the parents frequently also have previously undetected genetic abnormalities, a researcher from The Netherlands ...
Jun 24, 2012
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