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Umbilical cord blood may repair birth defects
Young Guns II rip download The 81st Annual Academy Awards Stem cells from umbilical cord blood may provide the raw material to help thousands of babies born each year with birth defects like defective heart valves. Vertigo movie Outlander hd Chaos trailer This, according to data presented at a recent American Heart Association meeting. Problems with the heart’s structure that are present at birth, or congenital heart defects, are the most common type of major birth defect. In children with the defect, the valves do not fully open or close and impede the flow of blood. While children can receive transplants from donors or artificial material, these valves will not grow as children do and require repeated operations to receive larger valves. In theory, replacement heart valves that are made from the child’s own cord blood stem cells would grow with the child and change shape as needed. Fear of…
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Mothers Who Smoked During Pregnancy More Than Twice as Likely to Have a Baby With a Cleft Lip or Palate
Babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy were more than twice as likely to have a cleft palate or lip as those whose mothers didn’t, according to research results released recently. buy Father and Scout Wild River ipod The Boat That Rocked dvd Although the study confirms earlier findings, it is unique because it did not rely on women’s self-reported smoking habits during pregnancy. Instead, researchers used the more reliable method of measuring the levels of cotinine, a metabolite of nicotine, in the blood from about 500 pregnant women. The Informant psp Nearly 7,000 babies are born annually with an oral-facial cleft in the United States. Children with oral clefts often have difficulty feeding, frequent ear infections, hearing loss, speech difficulties, and dental problems. Surgery often can repair these birth defects, which typically occur by the seventh week of pregnancy. Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia hd I Am David movie full Cinderella…
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New blood test shows defects with no risk to fetus
Seed divx Doctors have been able to test unborn babies for Down syndrome and other birth defects for a while now, but these invasive procedures (such as amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling, or CVS) posed a risk to the unborn baby. However, a newly developed blood DNA test has been developed that poses no risk to the fetus. Godzilla vs. Hedorah movie Not Another Teen Movie psp Running with Scissors movie The test requires only a small blood sample from the mother, whereas the old tests require sticking a needle in the uterus or snipping off a small piece of the placenta for analysis. The old tests are done after the 15th week of pregnancy (with results in two to three weeks). The new blood test can be done very early in a pregnancy at five weeks after conception (with results in a few days). Evan Almighty hd Duplicity trailer…
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