Tag: heart

AMAZING: Researchers create groundbreaking images of baby hearts inside the womb

The technology gives an unprecedented look at an unborn baby’s heart. One of the researchers describes the images as “beautiful” By SPUC—The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Scientists have created unprecedented 3D images of a baby’s heart while still inside the womb–a development which could help the treatment of babies with congenital heart …

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Bringing to the surface the uneasiness, the moral discomfort that abortion elicits in people of good will

By Dave Andrusko “The bottom line is no woman is going to want an abortion after seeing a sonogram.” — Francesco Angelo, medical director of the Family Planning Center in Mineola, as quoted in the New York Times. Years ago Prof. George McKenna wrote one of the best essays on abortion I’ve ever had the …

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Stem cells derived from the umbilical cords of newborn babies show promise in repairing damaged hearts

By Dave Andrusko In a first-of-its-kind study published in Circulation Research, an American Heart Association journal, researchers from Universidad de los Andes in Chile found that stem cells derived from the umbilical cords of newborn babies may lead to repairs in damaged hearts and improvements in heart muscle. “We are encouraged by our findings because …

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