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A class of FDA-approved cancer drugs may be able to prevent problems with brain cell development associated with disorders including Down syndrome and Fragile X syndrome, researchers have found.
SOURCE: Children’s Health News — ScienceDaily – Read entire story here.
Health at Every Size is not an organization, but a concept and a movement. There are, however, organizations that promote size tolerance, whether healthy or not. One is the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, for which Joanne Ikeda speaks: There has been just study after study showing fat people are discriminated against in housing, employment, college admission, even in adoption. You can today fire a fat person for no other reason other than they are fat, and you don’t want a fat employee. Many deep questions are concealed within those few words. When someone is in a position to hire another person, why shouldn’t they be allowed to have standards? Maybe parents don’t want to hire a smoker as their babysitter. Should they be
Results from clinical trials show that a new combination of medications can successfully treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis for patients 12 and older with two copies of the F508del gene mutation — the most common form of the life-threatening, genetic disease found in over half of the CF population.
Exposure to fine particulate air pollution during pregnancy through the first two years of the child’s life may be associated with an increased risk of a child developing autism spectrum disorder, a condition that affects one in 68 children, according to an investigation of children in southwestern Pennsylvania.