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March 10, 2010, 11:07 pm
Abu Dhabi launches comprehensive newborn screening programme
(MENAFN) wrote:
Abu Dhabi launches comprehensive newborn screening programme


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March 1, 2010, 4:28 pm
Newborn Hearing Screen Controversy
(Oklahoma's NewsChannel 4) wrote:
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Bringing home a tiny newborn is such an emotional time. The very last thing most parents are thinking about is the cost. However, concerned parents all across the metro have some questions about one bill that is sneaking into Oklahoma mailboxes. The charge for a Newborn Hearing Screening ranges from zero to about $230.


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April 24, 2005, 8:24 pm
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March 9, 2010, 9:23 pm
March of Dimes to receive 2010 Paul G. Rogers Distinguished Organization Advocacy Award
(News-Medical-Net) wrote:
March of Dimes will receive Research!America's 2010 Paul G. Rogers Distinguished Organization Advocacy Award. The award recognizes March of Dimes' decades of successful advocacy for maternal and child health research and services.


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March 9, 2010, 4:49 pm
Know sickle cell status of your marriage partner - Mettle-Nunoo
(Ghanaweb.com) wrote:
Accra, March 9, GNA - Mr. Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, Deputy Minister of Health, has stressed the need for Ghanaians to know the sickle cell status of their prospective marriage partners to reduce its incidence in the country.


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March 9, 2010, 5:01 am
March of Dimes Honored With Research!America Advocacy Award
(PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) wrote:
Paul G. Rogers Distinguished Organization Advocacy Award


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March 3, 2010, 3:53 pm
State budget cuts could affect health care
(Anderson Independent-Mail) wrote:
ANDERSON —Jaxson Wages looks like any other 16-month-old baby.He smiles. He laughs. He plays peek-a-boo and wrestles with his dad, Matthew, in their south Anderson home.He hasn’t always been that way.At Jaxson’s 10-day check-up, doctors noticed he was lethargic, said his mother, Jenna Wages.Because of screening after he was born in November 2008, Jaxson’s condition was caught early. The ...


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March 3, 2010, 9:27 am
March of Dimes President Dr. Jennifer L. Howse Wins Prestigious Humanitarian Award
(PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) wrote:
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nation's champion for babies today received the 2010 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award.


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March 3, 2010, 7:54 am
FULL CIRCLE STUDIOS, LLC AWARDED NIH GRANT TO PRODUCE EDUCATIONAL PROJECT FOR CONGENITAL CONDITION
(PitchEngine) wrote:
BUFFALO, N.Y. Full Circle Studios LLC, a digital media design, development, and venture company has been awarded a 96,000 Small Business Technology Transfer STTR grant by the National Institutes of Health NIH. With the grant, Full Circle will produce an online education program, instructional DVD and associated educational resources for parents of children diagnosed with Congenital Adrenal...


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February 28, 2010, 10:01 pm
Reversing protein deficiency through gene therapy can improve SMA
(News-Medical-Net) wrote:
Reversing a protein deficiency through gene therapy can correct motor function, restore nerve signals and improve survival in mice that serve as a model for the lethal childhood disorder spinal muscular atrophy, new research shows.


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February 28, 2010, 6:32 pm
Gene therapy reverses effects of lethal childhood muscle disorder in mice
(Science Daily) wrote:
Reversing a protein deficiency through gene therapy can correct motor function, restore nerve signals and improve survival in mice that serve as a model for the lethal childhood disorder spinal muscular atrophy, new research shows. This muscle-wasting disease results when a child's motor neurons -- nerve cells that send signals from the spinal cord to muscles -- produce insufficient amounts of ...


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February 28, 2010, 12:51 pm
Testing curbs occurrence of some genetic diseases
(The Bryan-College Station Eagle) wrote:
Some of mankind's most devastating inherited diseases appear to be declining, and a few have nearly disappeared, because more people are using genetic testing to decide whether to have children.Births of babies with cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs and oth ...


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February 28, 2010, 10:26 am
Study: Gene therapy reverses effects of lethal childhood muscle disorder in mice
(EurekAlert!) wrote:
( Ohio State University ) Reversing a protein deficiency through gene therapy can correct motor function, restore nerve signals and improve survival in mice that serve as a model for the lethal childhood disorder spinal muscular atrophy, new research shows. This muscle-wasting disease results when a child's motor neurons -- nerve cells that send signals from the spinal cord to muscles -- produce ...


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