Study found slightly higher chance of irregular heartbeat shortly after starting methylphenidate
LONDON – The world's first life-saving gene therapy for children, developed by GlaxoSmithKline and Italian scientists, was approved for sale in Europe on Friday, in a step forward for the pioneering technology to fix faulty genes.
Scientists studying the Zika outbreak in Brazil are becoming increasingly concerned the virus may cause eye damage in babies.
A new virus can cause developmental delays and brain damage, according to research.
OAK LAWN, Ill. – It happens every day to the most vulnerable infants in hospital intensive care units: fragile babies born way too soon are poked, prodded and jabbed as part of medical care meant to help them survive — and it can be heart-wrenching to watch.
JEDDAH: Around 20 percent of those suffering from kidney diseases in the Kingdom are newborns and this is attributed to birth defects, a kidney specialist was quoted as saying by local media on Tuesday.
Middle aged people whose mothers smoked heavily may be at significantly increased risk for breathing problems according to a new study from Australia.
Fewer children would develop infections in intensive care if the plastic tubes used to deliver drugs straight into their veins were coated in antibiotics, a study in The Lancet suggests.
A seven-month old infant is recovering after receiving a heart transplant shortly after suffering cardiac arrest. The boy was born with heterotaxy syndrome, a rare heart condition that caused his organs to develop on the opposite side of his body.
Doctors should check these infants with abnormally small heads for vision problems, researchers say
Eye defects may occur in babies born with microcephaly that seems to be linked to infection with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, researchers report.
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