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- Wilms' Tumor and Other Childhood Kidney Tumors
If your child has Stage I Wilmss tumor or anaplastic cancer, your childs treatment will probably be surgery to remove the kidney and some of the lymph nodes near the kidney followed by chemotherapy. Your childs treatment depends on the histology of the cancer. If your child has a favorable histology tumor, your childs treatment will probably be surgery to remove the kidney and some of the lymph nodes near the kidney followed by chemotherapy. If your child has an unfavorable histology tumor...
National Cancer Institute
- Scientists Report Early Progress in Tissue Engineering Mandibular Condyle
Researchers have long dreamed of engineering new knees, hips and other body joints in the laboratory from a person’s own bone and cartilage producing adult stem cells. The challenge has been to figure out how to manipulate these cells and get them to form tissues that precisely mirror the natural three-dimensional structure and mechanical strength of our normal, healthy joints. Now, in an important first step toward realizing this dream, scientists report in this month’s issue of the Journal of...
National Institutes of Health
- Childhood Sports Injuries and Their Prevention: A Guide for Parents with Ideas for Kids
A Guide for Parents with Ideas for Kids You are sitting in your office and suddenly the phone rings. "Ms. Ramirez? Your son, Raoul, was injured during football practice. His knee may be badly hurt. He is going to County General. Please go to the emergency room right away." You try to remain composed, but you can feel panic creeping through your body. With your breathing shallow and heart pounding, you drop everything and try to remember how to get to the hospital. In the past, Raoul has only...
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
- Bed Sharing with Siblings, Soft Bedding, Increase SIDS Risk
Infants who share a bed with other children are at a higher risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than are other infants, according to the most recent analysis of a study of predominantly African American SIDS deaths in Chicago. The analysis, appearing in the May, 2003 Pediatrics, also found that two known risk factors for SIDS sleeping on soft bedding and sleeping on the stomach pose a far greater risk of SIDS when they occur together than the sum of both risk factors added...
National Institutes of Health
- Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia: An Update from the NIMH
A child's stage of development must be taken into account when considering a diagnosis of mental illness.1 Behaviors that are normal at one age may not be at another. Rarely, a healthy young child may report strange experiences—such as hearing voices—that would be considered abnormal at a later age. Clinicians look for a more persistent pattern of such behaviors. Parents may have reason for concern if a child of 7 years or older often hears voices saying derogatory things about him or her,...
National Institute of Mental Health
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- Sarcoma Foundation of America - http://www.curesarcoma.org/
- Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation - http://www.candlelighters.org/
- American Association of Tissue Banks - http://www.aatb.org/
- Brain and Tissue Bank for Developmental Disorders - http://medschool.umaryland.edu/BTBank/
- Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center - http://www.brainbank.mclean.org/
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- Childhood Cancer Survivors At Increased Risk Of Sarcoma
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:00 EST
- Childhood Cancer Survivors At Increased Risk Of Sarcoma
ScienceDaily - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
- Childhood obesity can trigger early puberty
MSNBC - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:30 EST
- Childhood obesity triggers early puberty - study
Reuters - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:50 EST
- Childhood obesity triggers early puberty - study
Reuters - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:59 EST
Clinical Trials
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- Combination Chemotherapy, Surgery, and Radiation Therapy in Treating Children With Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00002804 - Active, not recruiting
nonmetastatic childhood soft tissue sarcoma; metastatic childhood soft tissue sarcoma
- Antineoplaston Therapy in Treating Patients With Soft Tissue Sarcoma
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00003521 - Active, not recruiting
stage III adult soft tissue sarcoma; stage IV adult soft tissue sarcoma; recurrent adult soft tissue sarcoma; ...
- Cryosurgery in Treating Patients With Soft Tissue Sarcoma
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00002863 - Completed
recurrent childhood rhabdomyosarcoma; recurrent childhood soft tissue sarcoma; previously untreated childhood rhabdomyosarcoma; ...
- Combination Chemotherapy Plus Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Rhabdomyosarcoma or Sarcoma
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00003955 - Active, not recruiting
adult soft tissue sarcoma; alveolar childhood rhabdomyosarcoma; childhood malignant mesenchymoma; embryonal childhood rhabdomyosarcoma; ...
- Surgery Followed by Chemotherapy in Treating Young Patients With Soft Tissue Sarcoma
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00002898 - Active, not recruiting
Ewing's family of tumors; childhood rhabdomyosarcoma; childhood soft tissue sarcoma

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