A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) has demonstrated a novel and accurate test for early diagnosis of Turner syndrome. Turner syndrome affects one in 1,500 to 2,000 female live births and early diagnosis allows...
Hi im a 22 year old with Asperger's Syndrome and I've been bullied pretty much all the way through my life. Mostly it is emotional bullying but there has been a lot of physical attacks in the past. I want to be able to defend myself from attacks but I'm afraid. I have tried Thai boxing and...
With few exceptions, jumping genes-restless bits of DNA that can move freely about the genome-are forced to stay put. In patients with Rett syndrome, however, a mutation in the MeCP2 gene mobilizes so-called L1 retrotransposons in brain cells, reshuffling their genomes and possibly contributing...
touch-screen.? It works beautifully when I'm using it, but the moment I stop it gets a fuzzy screen and takes ages to get going again, longer and longer, maybe even several restarts. Could it be the cold weather? Any tips? I'm thinking of saving my data to a computer and returning it to factory...
touch-screen.? It works beautifully when I'm using it, but the moment I stop it gets a fuzzy screen and takes ages to get going again, longer and longer, maybe even several restarts. Could it be the cold weather? Any tips? I'm thinking of saving my data to a computer and returning it to factory...
Noonan syndrome is a relatively common genetic disorder characterized by short stature, unique facial features, and heart defects. About 10%-15% of affected individuals have mutations in their SOS1 gene. A team of researchers, led by Raju Kucherlapati, at Harvard Medical School, Boston, has now...
Pregnant women who develop 'slapped face syndrome' have a 30 percent chance of passing it onto their unborn baby and during the first trimester the risk of fetal complications is heightened, says a new review published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 'Slapped...
Metabolic syndrome, associated with the sedentary lifestyle and energy dense diet of Western industrialized societies, may be an indicator of breast cancer risk in post-menopausal women, according to a new study to be released at the National Italian American Foundation event, "Let's Talk About...
Treating metabolic syndrome and undergoing carotid angioplasty may prevent recurrent stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), according to revised American Heart Association/American Stroke Association guidelines. Last updated in 2006, the evidence-based guidelines for doctors will be...
Taking low-dose Prozac (fluoxetine) for a few days during the premenstrual period shows promise in preventing the negative and emotional symptoms associated with PMS (premenstrual syndrome), neuroscientists at the University of Birmingham, England have revealed. PMS affects millions of women...
Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd (TASE:CFBI), a biotechnology company traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, announced today that it has opened an Investigational New Drug application (IND) with the US-FDA for a Phase 3 study of its lead drug, CF101, in patients with moderate to severe Dry Eye Syndrome...
My face does weird things. My eye will stay half-oped and flutter and do weird things, my right eye mostly. Sometimes my left. My cheek will do this weird tug-pull-twitch thing. Again mostly my right. I thought nothing of it, maybe I was cramping in my face, I thought. Untill I looked in the...
Many researchers have reported that chronic pain leads to sexual dysfunction. The greater the severity of pain, the greater is the degree of sexual dysfunction. Yoon and Yoon from Seoul, Korea conducted a questionnaire-based, cross sectional study to examine in detail whether pain and voiding...
Christians: Please explain why a loving, benevolent "God" would inflict any of his children with something as unnecessary as Tourette's.
Or is it the Devil's work?
- The Eternal Satyr
IRSF's 11th Annual Rett syndrome Symposium held June 27, 28, and 29 in Leesburg, Virginia brought together leading scientists and researchers in the fields of neurobiology from around the globe who are attempting to demystify Rett syndrome. About 25 presenters led a day and a half of in-depth...
A review of studies of babies born after in vitro maturation (IVM) fertility treatment has suggested that they are more likely to be born larger than normal and to have more difficult births requiring more obstetric interventions such as caesareans...
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Childhood vaccination is linked with earlier onset of the neurological disorder Dravet syndrome, finds a retrospective study. But vaccination should not be withheld from children with Dravet syndrome because vaccination before or after disease onset does not affect their clinical outlook...
I think having sex might mature people in a hurry, so how well would it mature a woman with Down's Syndrome?
Is it worth trying out? What will I get out of it?