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A Tumor in a 5-Month-Old's Belly Held Brain and Eye Tissue and an Amniotic Membrane That Kept Making Fluid
A baby's swollen belly hid a rare tumor with brain and eye tissue plus an inflamed amniotic membrane, a finding its authors say is a first.
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Postmortem Reviews Found Four in Five Stillbirths and Child Deaths in Africa and South Asia Were Potentially Preventable
A CDC-supported network found that 80.7 percent of stillbirths and young child deaths it assessed were potentially preventable with care that already exists.
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Nearly 3 Percent of Scanned Patients Had Pancreatic Tissue Looped Around a Major Vein Without Knowing It
A review of 1,000 abdominal CT scans found pancreatic tissue encircling a major vein in 27 patients, a variant that complicates surgery.
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