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'Superglue' brain op for toddler

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:13:50 -0600

The parents of a 17-month-old girl tell how surgeons used glue to seal tiny brain blood vessels that were threatening her life.

Fathering Autism

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In Bethesda, a 15-year-old girl talks to her television set. Often, she seems more connected to the tube's ghostly embrace than to her own father, mother, brothers and sister. She flushes household items down the toilet. She has no friends outside her family. Rachel does not understand why other ...

Parents Speak Out on Vaccine Settlement

admin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:46:19 -0600

ATLANTA (AP) -- The parents of the 9-year-old girl who won a government settlement described how their hearts were broken as they watched their bright, red-haired daughter deteriorate into an irritable, odd-behaving toddler after she got several childhood shots....

Youngest patient worldwide to have auditory implant in the brain...

admin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:00:00 -0600

A team at the University Hospital of Navarra have successfully operated on a 13 month-old girl from Murcia, who had been born deaf due to the lack of auditory nerves. She is the youngest patient in the world who has received an auditory implant in the brain stem.