Category: children's health
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BU researcher awarded $7.2 million grant to develop mAb-based birth control products
[ad_1] Deborah Jean Anderson, PhD, professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received a four-year, $7.2 million grant from NIH’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development that renews support for a contraception research center ( CRC) at BUSM to advance its research to develop innovative monoclonal antibody (mAb)-based contraceptives…
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Respiratory diseases among children can lead to polio-like condition
[ad_1] (WXIN) – Doctors across the United States have seen an increase in children of a respiratory virus that can cause polio-like muscle weakness. In most cases, enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) causes a respiratory illness with mild symptoms. However, it can result in a condition called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), which can cause inflammation of the…