Institute of Child Health

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• Welcome to the Institute's new Internet
• Stem cell technique offers new potential to treat blindness
• 20% of adult obesity might be caused by infant nutrition
• Study to reduce birth defects
• Beta thalassaemia gene therapy success
• Genetic link with human male infertility identified
• New research into Congenital Toxoplasmosis endorses UK health guidance for pregnant women
• ICH Poster Competition and Open Day
• Is 'breast only' for first six months best?
• Six months of exclusive breast feeding: how good is the evidence?
• Major new programme to tackle childhood obesity launched
• Study shows that early detection of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency would save lives
• £28 Million boost to understand child health
• The impact of sex selection and abortion in China, India and South Korea
• Regenerative medicine success for muscles
• New study examines early-onset eating disorders in under-13s
• International 50-year mortality trends in children and young people reveal an inadequate response to the health problems and causes of death in adolescents, particularly young men
• Apples, oranges and jam – the tasty way to keep kidney disease at bay
• Scientists prove heart has built-in repair mechanism: Exciting breakthrough towards mending broken hearts
• Fight for Sight awards £1 million for retinal disease research
• New Policy Research Unit in the Health of Children, Young People and Families
• UCLB and NCYPE announce a commercialisation agreement with Special Products Limited for Epistatus®
• Molecular scalpel hope for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
• Eating disorders linked to fertility problems and negative feelings towards pregnancy
• Science: From Cradle to Grave
• £36 million boost for children's health research
• Gene therapy success for children born without functioning immune system
• ICH Open Day 2011
• Under 16s make up less than one per cent of NHS patient surveys
• Mitochondria genes and cardiomyopathy
• Child Health Research PhD Studentships 2012-13
• Tate Liverpool exhibition inspires pioneering science games
• No consistent decrease in child maltreatment despite years of policy initiatives designed to achieve it
• New approach on bone marrow transplant infections
• Genetic testing for antibiotic related deafness
• Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity announces plans to build a Centre for Children’s Rare Disease Research
• Gene therapy shows clinical effect in third immune disease
• Clean delivery kits linked to substantial reduction in neonatal deaths in South Asia, study shows
• Genetic variant inherited from the mother significantly increases birth weight
• Not enough is known about prescription drug use in pregnancy, say experts
• Improving access to education and employment and reducing the risk of transport-related injury are among the best ways to improve adolescent health
• Research reveals association between red hair gene and rare birthmarks
• Five new UCL fellows of Academy of Medical Sciences
• Surgery boost for children with drug-resistant epilepsy.
• Professor of economics and deputy director appointed to the new UK Birth Cohort Study
• First example of a heritable abnormality affecting semantic cognition found
• New Director of the UCL Institute of Child Health
• New approach to recording suspected child abuse in patient records
• Amniotic fluid yields alternatives to embryonic stem cells
• ICH OPEN DAY AND POSTER COMPETITION
• Europe’s first research centre to battle birth defects
• New cause of thyroid hormone deficiency discovered
• £10 million boost for Centre for Children’s Rare Disease Research
• EU awards grant to develop new drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
• New research centre for teenagers with arthritis
• Major study shows steep decline in figure for diagnosed epilepsy
• Obesity leads to vitamin D deficiency