Spinal surgeries in children are incredibly complex procedures with little room for error. When these operations are successful they can restore children with severe scoliosis and other painful and debilitating conditions back to health, but mistakes and complications can lead to long hospital stays, the need for further surgeries or lifelong disabilities.
Children who are abused might carry the imprint of that trauma in their cells – a biochemical marking that is detectable years later, according to new research from BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of British Columbia and Harvard University.
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