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WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama Monday issued an order overturning eight-year-old policy banning federal funding for research on human embryonic stem cells.

National Eating Disorders Association or NEDA  is campaigning STAR Program (States for Treatment Access and Research Program) to promote awareness among local legislators about the challenges in accessing adequate medical care to battle an eating disorder due to unfair practices by insurance companies and hence to change state law to address those inequities.

St. Louis University Memorial Hospital and the doctor who delivered a baby named Haley Overmeyer on January 9, 2005, faces a cerebral palsy lawsuit, due to medical mistakes during delivery.

Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis requiring hospitalization of infants and young children worldwide.

Screening embryos may unfold secrets of genetic diseases. A revolutionary “universal test” developed by British scientist, which is suitable for prospective couples to screen embryos for almost any known genetic disease.

Researchers from the John Innes Centre in Norwich, Great Britain, in collaboration with other European centres participating to the FLORA project, have obtained genetically modified tomatoes rich in anthocyanins, a category of antioxidants belonging to the class of flavonoids. These tomatoes, added to the diet of cancer-prone mice, showed a significant protective effect by extending [...]

A recent report reveals that 99 schools’ kindergartners and 81 schools’ sixth-graders failed to meet the target set up by the Vaccination law. According to the AJC’s review of 625 public and private school audits conducted last fall in Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton and Gwinnett counties. Results of this year’s audit are due to the [...]

It is very easy for Foreign drug manufacturers to trap poor Indian patients who can be used as guinea pigs to test the efficacy and safety aspects of their drugs..

The week is being celebrated as the breastfeeding week in the USA. In the honor of the day, the Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) stresses the importance of providing support for breastfeeding families. Also, Kentucky celebrates the month of August as World Breastfeeding Month.

What is cord blood banking?
Cord blood banking is storing the umbilical cord blood taken from the baby’s umbilical cord (which is normally discarded anyway). It can be stored in private cord blood banks (paid for) or government cord blood banks (normally free).
h2>Why is umbilical cord blood stored?
The umbilical cord blood is a rich source [...]