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 ...
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On her first visit to the hospital to check on her newborn patient, the pediatrician detected a heart murmur. A few days later, at Cix Greene's first office visit, the doctor didn't hear it. It was almost eight years later, ...
Oct 19, 2022
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Researchers at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan have discovered a blood test that uses artificial intelligence and genetic-related biomarkers in pregnant women to accurately detect fetal congenital heart defects well ...
Oct 18, 2022
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Adults with a genetic form of childhood-onset blindness experienced striking recoveries of night vision within days of receiving an experimental gene therapy, according to researchers at the Scheie Eye Institute in the Perelman ...
Oct 10, 2022
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A discovery about how some visually impaired adults could start to see offers a new vision of the brain's possibilities. The finding that the adult brain has the potential to partially recover from inherited blindness comes ...
Oct 6, 2022
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The day after his 8-month-old baby died, Kingsley Raspe opened the mail and found he had been sent to collections for her care.
Sep 29, 2022
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High-dose folic acid is protective against congenital malformations if the mother is at particular risk of having a child with congenital malformations. Treatment with antiseizure medication in pregnancy is associated with ...
Sep 28, 2022
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A new study led by the Masonic Medical Research Institute published in the journal Cells shows for the first time that a particular gene, called VGLL4, is required for embryo development but is dispensable for myocardial ...
Sep 21, 2022
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Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases—including a 26% rise in new syphilis infections reported last year—are prompting U.S. health officials to call for new prevention and treatment efforts.
Sep 19, 2022
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Race was already known to matter when it came to health outcomes for infants with congenital heart disease (CHD), the most common birth defect, affecting 1 in 100 live births. In the first year of life, African Americans ...
Aug 27, 2022
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