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Prenatal smoking linked to digit defects

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Study reveals that smoking half of a pack per day or less significantly increases the risk of having a child born with defects like excess, webbed, or missing fingers and toes. Certain medications, as well as substances such as cocaine and alcohol, causes congenital limb abnormalities when used during pregnancy.

Author: Hampton, Tracy
Publisher: American Medical Association
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2006
Birth defects, Smoking in pregnancy

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Chemicals linked to bladder cancer in smokers may play wider role

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Non-smokers are also prone to bladder cancer risks, as some of the compounds in tobacco smoke contain harmful elements causing the disease. A new study has found that compounds called arylamines can be linked to bladder cancer risk in non-smokers and smokers.

Author: Hampton, Tracy
Publisher: American Medical Association
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2004
Causes of, Smokers, Smoking, Bladder cancer

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Comprehensive "Proteomic profile" of amniotic fluid may aid prenatal diagnosis

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Proteomic profiling of amniotic fluid can help to identify markers to improve prenatal diagnostic testing and thereby help detection of fetal abnormalities about many diseases.

Author: Hampton, Tracy
Publisher: American Medical Association
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2007
Product information, Diagnosis, Testing, Amniotic fluid, Fetal diseases

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Subjects list: Health aspects, United States, Risk factors
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