Women Born With Birth Defects Run Small Risk Their Children Will Have Them
...to such women. This study used the extensive birth registry of Norway to identify nearly ahalf-million female babies born between 1967 and 1982, and then to follow themto adulthood and motherhood. Allen Wilcox, M.D., chief of epidemiology at NIEHS and a collaborator on thisproject, said, "We found a definite ...Reassuring Findings About Infants Exposed To Zidovudine
...Pediatric HIV specialists also hope to establish a registry to trackthe health of all children exposed to antiretrovirals, a proposal that is beingactively discussed within the medical community....International Study Raises Hopes For Heart Transplant Patients
...vention of organ rejection. Based upon scientific registry data from theUnited Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), there are currently about 3,945patients waiting for a heart transplant. "Due to the shortage of organ donors, we need to develop new treatments to prevent organ rejection in heart transplant pati...... immunosuppression therapy." Based upon scientific registry data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), there are currently about 3,945 patients waiting for a heart transplant. Using 1996 data, it is estimated that about 20 to 50% of these patients may die while waiting for a donor heart. Dr. Jee...