Inhaled nitric oxide safe for tiny preemie lungs, UCSF study finds
...nary dysplasia (BPD), with severe inflammation and retarded development of the lungs. BPD is the most common long-term lung disease in premature infants in the United States, affecting about 15,000 babies each year. About half of the infants born between 24 and 30 weeks and weighing less than 2 pounds devel......d of the autistics had WISC scores in the mentally retarded range, whereas only one in 20 scored that low on the Ravens test. The normal kids had basically the same results on both tests. The scientists ran the same experiment with autistic and normal adults, with the same result. As they report in the Augu...University of Leicester research reveals rice bran could reduce risk of intestinal cancer
...prostate or breast cancer, rice bran significantly retarded the development of intestinal adenomas. The effect was dependent on the fibre content of the bran. The dose we used translates into approximately 200g rice bran per day in humans. We believe a promising area of future research would be to study the ...HIV pregnancy study discovers increased anaemia and blood pressure problems
...cy and deliver babies with lower birth weights and retarded growth, according to research in the latest Journal of Clinical Nursing. A team from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa compared 212 HIV positive mothers-to-be with 101 women who had tested negative. "Latest statistics suggest that more ...Organ transplants just as successful in those with mental retardation
...oesn't seem to be any reason to think the mentally retarded are not good candidates for transplants." Reiss, ...tcome results from around the world among mentally retarded transplant patients. The results help answer concerns about whether transplants would be successful ...Inhibiting cell process may give cancer drug a boost
...oside to kill cancer cells. In animal models, ML-7 retarded growth of breast cancer and prostate cancer tumors. The combination of ML-7 and etoposide reduced tumor growth by 88.5 percent for the breast cancer tumors and by 79.1 percent in the prostate cancer tumors compared to controls. Like many chemotherapy...... colleagues. Efforts to improve training have been retarded by the absence of a dedicated trauma service infrastructure within the NHS, while demands from surgical institutions for a national framework for trauma management and centralisation of expertise have not been heeded. In North America, trauma doctors...Special education data provide misleading trends of changing autism prevalence
...ecrease in the number of children labeled mentally retarded corresponding with an upward trend in identification of autism. This undermines the use of data coming out of California as a representative indicator of what is happening in the rest of the country, as has been suggested in recent press accounts an......ter the '80s - characterised by specific features, retarded growth, hirsutism, small hands and feet or, less f...chomotor and intellectual development is generally retarded and the majority of persons suffering from the syndrome have a medium-severe degree of retarded deve...