Science news articles about 'irreversible brain damage'

... a decade to treat PKU, a so-called inborn error of metabolism that if left untreated causes irreversible brain damage. It affects an estimated 15,000 newborns in the United ...

... , a condition called hypoglycemia. If untreated, hypoglycemia may cause irreversible brain damage or death in children. Congenital HI occurs in an estimated one in 50,000 U.S. ...

In 1990, Theresa Schiavo, an American citizen, had a cardiac arrest that caused irreversible brain damage which led to a persistent vegetative state diagnosis. A few years later, this diagnosis became ...

... precautionary approach to this and similar compounds to protect unborn children from irreversible brain damage. Philippe Grandjean of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public ...

... . The results obtained so far reveal that the decisive variable for the existence of a reversible or irreversible brain damage is the baby's weight at birth, rather than the time of gestation.