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  Telomere Changes Predict Cancer Changes in chromosomes years before cancer diagnosis could yield biomarker to predict cancer April 30, 2015 | By Marla Paul CHICAGO — […]

  Vitamin E and Prostate Cancer in Healthy Men   A paper published recently from the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) in the Journal […]

Breastfeeding in newborns with Down syndrome November 22, 2015 OB-GYN   Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pawin Puapornpong            Nowadays, women marry and have children later, with the age of marriage or childbearing rising. When a mother is over 35 years old, the risk of having a child with Down syndrome increases with age. Although Down syndrome can be diagnosed in a fetus during pregnancy, some mothers may choose to care for the baby even if the baby has Down syndrome. Babies in this group have reduced muscle strength, and stimulating milk by sucking from the breast does not work well.  Feeding from the breast may be tiring and the baby may not get enough milk. In addition, abnormalities of the heart or kidneys may also be found. Therefore, breastfeeding in babies with Down syndrome […]

  Researchers isolate cells implicated with breast cancer-derived brain tumors NEWS   Dec 03, 2015           Researchers from the Houston Methodist Research Institute have […]

 

    Young athlete “keeps his promise” after a decade…taking his friend with Down syndrome to the prom!       Ever since 4th grade, Ben Moser had promised Mary Lapkowicz that, when they were old enough, he would take her to the prom, the graduation celebration party. And after 10 years had passed, this young man truly “kept” that “promise”. Ben […]