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Current prosthetic heart valves for children with congenital heart disease are fixed in size, requiring repeated open-heart surgeries during childhood to replace the valve with a larger version. But a surprising new design created at Boston Children’s Hospital could allow children to keep the same prosthetic valve until adulthood, and could also benefit adults with […]
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A seven-year-old second grader in Pennsylvania died after battling the flu. "Heaven gained an angel yesterday," his mother wrote on Facebook. This year's flu season might be the deadliest one yet. There have been 92 pediatric deaths this flu season, according to the CDC. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. A seven-year-old boy has died […]
‘Failed’ quarantine on Diamond Princess meant ‘four or five people every hour’ were being infected says NIH official as 300 Americans including 14 with the virus are evacuated to the US Dr Anthony Fauci, of the National Institutes of Health, says the coronavirus quarantine aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan ‘failed’ Although passengers were confined to […]
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 19, 2020 — Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) remains largely undiagnosed in youth, according to a study published online Jan. 23 in the Child & Youth Care Forum. Leonard A. Jason, Ph.D., from DePaul University in Chicago, and colleagues assessed the prevalence of pediatric ME/CFS from an ethnically and sociodemographically diverse community-based random […]
