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Question: Effect of father’s diabetes on foetus

Q: ”What effect does the baby’s father having diabetes have on the foetus?” The causes of diabetes are not completely understood. From the research that has been done so far, it is clear that both type 1 diabetes (juvenile onset or insulin-dependent diabetes) and type 2 diabetes (adult onset or non-insulin-dependent) are caused by a combination…

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Will your baby live forever?

MEDICAL advances mean that your baby should live well beyond her allotted three score years and ten, but will she live forever? Research in the 21st century won’t just look at treating illness and disease, it has been claimed, but also at how to cheat death. A special edition of the BBC programme Horizon has looked at…

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