Children able to adapt to foreign blood types
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Children who receive organ transplants with a non-matching blood type can grow accustomed to the foreign tissue over the long run, a study shows.
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Blood donation restrictions were tightened today after warnings in Britain that vCJD can be transmitted through transfusions. Anyone who lived in Britain for more than one year between 1980 and 1996 will not be able to give blood from November.
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A new genetic blood test allowing a closer match between donors and recipients is being developed.
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Giving children with type 1 diabetes an infusion of blood saved from their own umbilical cords helped reduce the severity of their disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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It is becoming clear that the human genome responds to changes in diet, even though it takes many generations to do so.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) --- High levels of allergens in a baby&#39;s umbilical cord blood may play a key role in understanding the development of childhood allergies and asthma, according to a new study published in Thorax.
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An Australian girl spontaneously switched blood groups and adopted her donor's immune system following a liver transplant in the first known case of its type, doctors treating her said Thursday.
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A major clinical trial found that children with sickle cell disease who are at high risk of having strokes should continue to be treated with periodic blood transfusions.
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A young girl and her family find ways to handle the challenges of a rare genetic disorder.
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Scientists have identified a genetic change that raises a child's risk of developing asthma, a discovery that may lead to better treatments for one of the most common chronic childhood ailments.
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When a child develops diabetes, it&#39;s critical to know if it&#39;s the type that requires insulin treatment or the other version that can be controlled with diet and exercise.
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MUNICH -- Umbilical cord blood helped children with acute leukemia as well as the bone marrow transplants that doctors now prefer, a study indicates.
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While fatal in adults, organ transplants from donors with different blood types work in children under 2. The trick? Taking advantage of children's underdeveloped immune systems. By the Associated Press.
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More couples are selecting the sex of their children, using techniques developed to help couples who are infertile or at risk for having babies with genetic diseases.
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Some 30,000 kids have been used as fighters. Reestablishing a normal life can be difficult.
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- A generation ago, one in every 100 units of donated blood in the United States passed HIV or the hepatitis C virus to an unknowing recipient.
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Gene therapy can cure children born with a condition that knocks out their natural defences against infection, mounting evidence shows.