Childhood Diseases
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New study shows pathogenic bacteria use a sugar in the intestinal mucus layer to infect the gut
Children’s immature immune systems make them more susceptible to gut bacterial infections, and more and more kids are being diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a chronic disease linked to gut bacteria. These are two of the reasons why BC Children’s Hospital investigator and CH.I.L.D. Foundation Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology Dr. Bruce Vallance and his…
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Do children with congenital heart disease have a higher risk of autism?
He wasn’t eating well — that was the first sign that something was wrong with baby Liam. The second was that his legs held a tinge of blue. When Juliane Khadra brought her three-day-old son to her doctor for a scheduled visit, she immediately burst into tears. She knew something was wrong with her second…
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We are what we eat — following a passion for food and nutrition to research on IBD
Dr. Genelle Lunken started running at age three. She leapt into track and field, kickball, as well as rugby — even though it was considered a “boy’s sport” in her native New Zealand — tennis, volleyball, cricket, golf — even lawn bowling. She also rolled into gymnastics, “But I was terrible at that. I was…
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