(MENAFN – Khaleej Times) Posted: Thu 24 Nov 2022, 05:05 PM Doctors in Abu Dhabi have successfully performed a bone marrow transplant (BMT) on a two-year-old Pakistani expatriate girl who has an extremely rare and life-threatening genetic disease that has caused several serious infections since birth. Dr. Zainul Aabideen, Head of Department of Pediatric Hematology, …
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Pregnancy can be a time of intense emotions for everyone involved. Just revisit knocked up, Judd Apatow’s 2007 romantic comedy, as an example. Seeing that little line on an at-home test or having your first ultrasound can be among the happiest and most stressful times in a person’s life. It can also be one of …
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Ultrasound of a human fetus. Emmanuel Faure via Getty Images For the first time, doctors have treated a fetus for a serious form of a rare genetic disease. To fight the disease, which, if left untreated, usually results in death before the age of two, the medical team passed an enzyme through the umbilical cord …
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appears to share a genetic risk with cardiovascular disease (CVD), indicating that PTSD is a contributing factor to the development of coronary heart disease (CAD) and hypertension, study finds . “People with PTSD are much more likely to be diagnosed with CVD (eg, myocardial infarction, stroke),” the researchers said. “The evidence …
