Tag: parents-were
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Finding A Cure Wouldn’t Mean We’ve Defeated Cancer
WebMD wasn't a research option when Ivy Brown was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1974, so her mother looked up her 12-year-old daughter's condition the old-fashioned way, in a hardcover medical volume.”It just said 'fatal,'” Brown explained. Having moved the family to London a month earlier, Brown's parents were still trying to liaise…
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Finding A Cure Wouldn’t Mean We’ve Defeated Cancer
WebMD wasn't a research option when Ivy Brown was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1974, so her mother looked up her 12-year-old daughter's condition the old-fashioned way, in a hardcover medical volume.”It just said 'fatal,'” Brown explained. Having moved the family to London a month earlier, Brown's parents were still trying to liaise…
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New Zika diagnostics needed for babies, researchers say
Some infants with brain abnormalities may not be diagnosed because they have normal-sized heads instead of the tell-tale small skulls of those born with Zika-linked microcephaly, said one of the papers published by The Lancet. This meant that “newborns infected with the virus late in pregnancy may go unreported due to their head size being…