Pediatrics Doctors in Homewood, IL Accepting Medicare

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Dr. Zeba Shakir, MD Pediatrics Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 18811 Dixie Hwy, Suite 101, Homewood, IL 60430 Phone: 708-335-3693    Fax: 708-647-9734

Dr. Yahya Seyed Ahmadian, MD Pediatrics Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 17901 Governors Highway, Suite 104, Homewood, IL 60430 Phone: 708-799-0960    Fax: 708-799-3326

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Brain makes new connections in blind people to enhance compensatory abilities

The brains of those who are born blind make new connections in the absence of visual information, resulting in enhanced, compensatory abilities such as a heightened sense of hearing, smell and touch, as well as cognitive functions (such as memory and language) according to a new study led by Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers.

First Edition: August 24, 2012

Now on Kaiser Health News blog, KUHF's Carrie Feibel, working in partnership with KHN and NPR, reports: "When Ashley Beecher had her first daughter, nursing was a struggle, and she sometimes had to supplement her baby's diet with formula. But when she had her second daughter in January, it was a very different story. … Beecher was reluctant to throw away the milk – mothers and doctors call it 'liquid gold' because of its health benefits -; so she was excited to find out about the donor milk bank at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston."

New, previously unknown form of familial cold urticaria discovered

Skin rash combined with head and joint pain: these are the symptoms which patients with familial (hereditary) cold urticaria develop when exposed to temperatures below 15 °C.

Study may pave way for effective drug development for childhood leukemia

A new study could point the way to the development of better drugs to fight a deadly form of childhood leukemia called mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL).

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