Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A documentary about a 19-year-old afflicted with testicular cancer and trying to cope with impending parenthood. This moving and irreverent film, from the director of "Extraordinary People: The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off", follows the young man undergoing chemotherapy as he and other young cancer patients at Newcastle General Hospital face the biggest challenge of their lives.
As an infant Vallejo had a decent appetite, and any initial weight gain was thought to have been a good sign, as both medical and aesthetic standards of the age considered slightly heavier frames on women to be preferable. By the time she was a year old she had already reached 25 kg (55 lbs). [3] By the age of six Vallejo weighed 70 kg (155 lbs).
Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic disorder caused by a loss of function of specific genes on chromosome 15. [2] In newborns, symptoms include weak muscles, poor feeding, and slow development. [2] Beginning in childhood, those affected become constantly hungry, which often leads to obesity and type 2 diabetes. [2]
There are known three molecular causes of Prader–Willi syndrome development. One of them consists in micro-deletions of the chromosome region 15q11–q13. 70% of patients present a 5–7-Mb de novo deletion in the proximal region of the paternal chromosome 15. The second frequent genetic abnormality (~ 25–30% of cases) is maternal ...
Urban–Rogers–Meyer syndrome, also known as Prader–Willi habitus, osteopenia, and camptodactyly or Urban syndrome, [1] is an extremely rare inherited congenital disorder first described by Urban et al. (1979).
The story, adapted a number of times for film and television since the book’s 1938 publication, sees the narrator meet widower Maxim de Winter and marry him in haste. But as they begin their ...
Heinrich Willi (4 March 1900 – 16 February 1971) was a Swiss pediatrician who specialised in neonatology and co-discovered Prader–Willi syndrome with Andrea Prader. Biography [ edit ]
Andrea Prader (December 23, 1919 – June 3, 2001) was a Swiss scientist, physician, and pediatric endocrinologist. He co-discovered Prader–Willi syndrome and created two physiological sex development scales, the Prader scale and the orchidometer .