CHICAGO (AP) — Lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90% of U.S. women breast-fed their babies for the first six months of life, a cost analysis says. The findings suggest that there are hundreds of deaths and many more costly illnesses each year from health [...]
April 4, 2010 | Posted in
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What is EDS or Ehlers Danlos Syndrome? Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) (also known as “Cutis hyperelastica”) is a group of inherited connective tissue disorders, caused by a defect in the synthesis of collagen (a protein in connective tissue). The collagen in connective tissue helps tissues to resist deformation (increases its elasticity). In the skin, muscles, ligaments, blood [...]