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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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Fetal heart defects linked to use of Paxil, Prozac

An international group of researchers recently published a study linking pregnant women who take the antidepressant Prozac or Paxil to heart defects in their unborn children. The study, a collaboration from scientists from Israel, Italy and Germany, was published in the November issue of The British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. Miracle at St. Anna move buy American Pimp The Elephant Man movie download download Sweet and Lowdown dvd The War of the Worlds movie download Metro divx The Dancer Upstairs full movie The study found that women who take Prozac during pregnancy are more than four times as likely to give birth to a child with heart defects; for Paxil, the incidence of birth defects was more than three times as likely. My Super Ex-Girlfriend move Back to the Future Part III dvdrip Minor Details divx The risk of fetal heart defects is raised again if the mother also smoked…
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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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