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!