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• Baby RB has died

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 566
  The little boy known as Baby RB has died. Baby RB was dressed in his green Ted Baker baby grow and carried gently from his hospital bed to a sofa. He slipped away, under heavy sedation after switching off his ventilator. Parents united, holding his hands and remaining by his side all day, telling him they loved him. ...
  18 hours ago

• Where’s The "Plastic" In Plastic Surgery?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Don’t be looking for the Dupont Company sales rep the next time you visit a Plastic Surgeon’s office because, despite popular belief, there’s no “Plastic” in Plastic Surgery. The name is taken from the Greek word “plastikos” which means to “mold or shape.”Initially plastic surgery procedures were ...
  1 day ago

• Rare Congenital Disorder Leaves Super Baby Faith Without Eyes

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 566
  Little Faith Wildshuetz was born with a rare congenital disorder which has left her without eyes and completely blind. “We just felt that our faith in God and his plan and purpose for her was what was going to carry us through this,” Bridget Wildshuetz said. “So at that point, we said, ‘We’re going to name ...
  1 day ago

• One Short Story

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 425
  As I have mentioned before, I worked at an agricultural museum for ten years. We were a small operation – so small, almost every task had to be shared. I’ve set up exhibits, taken down exhibits, repaired exhibits, run the Admissions Desk, worked in the Museum Store, led all of our educational programs, given ...
  2 days ago

• Heart Repair of the Future

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 425
  Here are two articles you need to see – one is from August, about literally “building” a tooth from stem cells , and one from just a few days ago about The Stanford University School of Medicine and the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease working together to use stem cells to repair damaged heart ...
  4 days ago

• Father withdraws opposition in Baby RB Right-To-Die trial

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 566
  Baby RB’s father has withdrawn his opposition to the mother’s High Court plea for the child’s life support machine to be turned off. The couple, who separated amicably, had asked the High Court to make the decision over whether the baby should be kept alive. However, today the father unexpectedly withdrew his ...
  5 days ago

• Lab-grown penis brings hope to men

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine say they have found a way to replace penile erectile tissue and function in animals.According to them their tissue engineering methods could one day help reconstruct and restore function to ...
  5 days ago

• We Missed It!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 425
  Golly darn gee whiz! We missed it! The Funky Heart missed out on all the festivities associated with World Heart Day , which was September 27, 2009! What was I doing on September 27th? Ha’ mercy, I can’t remember… were we supposed to exchange gifts? What’s that? Sorry folks, I hate to get you all excited, ...
  5 days ago

• Right-to-die-trial Baby RB: A mother’s wishes outweigh a father’s opinion

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 566
  A mother’s wishes over her child’s care outweigh a father’s opinion, a right-to-die trial was told yesterday. The mother, Miss KM, agrees with the doctors view, that his quality of life is so poor that he should be allowed to die in peace, his father, Mr RB, believes everything must be done to keep their ...
  5 days ago

• Coverage for Hereditary Conditions

  
  PurinaCare Pet Insurance Blog — Authority: 422
  A lot of us love pure bred dogs and cats, but they do have a higher incidence of hereditary conditions than their mixed breed cousins. Im corresponding with a woman now that has a Wheaten Terrier with Glaucoma secondary to hereditary lens luxation. Shes looking at some pretty pricey surgery by a veterinary eye ...
  6 days ago

• Your Contributions Needed!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 425
  It’s time for another CHD Blog Carnival! For those of you who may not know what a blog carnival is, it is like a magazine: different articles are provided by various writers, but all of them focus on the same idea or subject. The name come from the very first collection of like minded blogger links: it was hosted by ...
  6 days ago

• A Resurgence for Gene Therapy

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 129
  scientists say gene therapy may be on the edge of a resurgence.
  1 week ago

• The dawning of molecular medicine: replacing a single defective gene

  
  TheMillerCircle.org — Authority: 111
  When I began my training in medical school in the 1960s, many of the drugs that would become the mainstay, front-line agents in the fight against cancer and other diseases, were just coming into play and some of them, such as methotrexate, which was initially used to treat leukemia, have remained viable drugs for ...
  1 week ago

• Old Friends

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 425
  Old friend, here we are; after all the years and tears and all that we’ve been through… Bette Midler, Every Road Leads Back to You Every person in this video is an adult living with a Congenital Heart Defect.
  1 week ago

• Mark and the Cardiac Kids!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 425
  “How long has it been since you posted those cool videos?” a friend asked me. “You ought to post them again. When you showed them the first time there were about five people reading Funky Heart . You’ve got lots of new readers since then.” She could be right… I can’t recall when I posted them. And ...
  1 week ago

• VIDEO - HERSTORY: Divya Shares Any Symptoms She Had Before Heart Surgery

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 545
  Divya introduces herself and recalls the symptoms she experienced before undergoing open-heart surgery to repair a congenital defect. Embed Code:  Transcript:  Divya: Hi, I am Divya. I am a mother of ...
  1 week ago

• Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Restoring Vision

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 118
  There is an interesting article in this months Lancet:  Age-dependent effects of RPE65 gene therapy for Lebers congenital amaurosis: a phase 1 dose-escalation trial.     Results were also reported in yesterdays New York Times . According to the Lancet article: Gene therapy has the ...
  1 week ago

• Gene Therapy Restores Sight

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 129
  The boy relied on a cane and adults to guide him, and, unable to see blackboard writing, sat in back with a teachers aide, large-type computer screen and materials in Braille.
  1 week ago

• Major Types Of Degenerative Heart Disease

  
  Health and Medic — Authority: 142
  As you may know, heart disease comes in a number of types. All types are serious, degenerative conditions that can cause sudden death. Given this fact, degenerativeheart disease is no doubt a health problem that needs to be considered and solved. However, before one can solve degenerative heart disease, it is ...
  1 week ago

• AVOID this Vegetable Garden!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 425
  I’ve written before how CHDers need to avoid Endocarditis if at all possible. Endocarditis is caused by a bacterial infection in the bloodstream, and it happens a lot more often than you think it does. If you are healthy, your immune systems can usually smother the infection pretty quickly and you may not even feel ...
  1 week ago

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