In this issue:
- Blindness in preterm babies -- new findings
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a potentially blinding eye disease occurring in babies born before full term.
- Brain damage in pre-term babies
An Action Medical Research project used pioneering techniques to demonstrate a link between infection in the womb and brain damage in pre-term babies
- Dyspraxia -- progress being made
Dyspraxia, or Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) as it is more properly known, affects 5-10 per cent of school-aged children. Despite having normal intelligence and physical appearance, these children have poor coordination.
- Hi-tech solution for assessing bone healing
Computed tomography (CT) scans play a key role in assessing bone healing following corrective spinal and limb surgery in children, hip and other joint replacement surgery, and for patients with fractures that fail to heal.
- Learning together: Dyspraxia
A unique project to help children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is entering its third phase, thanks to funding from Action Medical Research.
- New study on retinal detachment
6,000 people a year in Britain go blind because of retinal detachment — and in many cases, it could be avoided.
- New treatments could end sickle cell misery
A better quality of life for sickle cell disease sufferers is the ultimate aim of a new study funded by Action Medical Research.
- Prevention is better than cure for pre-term babies
Babies born too soon can face a lifetime of difficulties — but what causes a woman to go into labour weeks, and sometimes months, before her due date?
- Spinal injury: road to recovery
It takes a certain kind of person to describe spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair as a ‘new challenge’, but that’s how Martin Toyer sees it.
- The match makers: bone marrow transplants
An Action Medical Research study could help thousands of recipients of bone marrow transplants get the best possible donor match.
- The POSSUM system
The Action Medical Research link to Stoke Mandeville, the POSSUM system, and the Paralympic Games!
