MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'dwarfism'. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:25:17 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3475991&cid=t_314926_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2FJ8RPJekcWmY%2F China’s new “Kingdom of The Little People” theme park is disturbing, but not quite as disturbing as the audiences reveling in the zoo-like displays of little people: Post from: BlissTree You Know You're Unwell If… You Go To This Dwarf Theme Park (Source: Genetics and Health) Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3475991 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:00:22 +0100 3475991 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3475786&cid=t_314926_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fyou-know-youre-unwell-if%25e2%2580%25a6-you-go-to-this-dwarf-theme-park%2F China’s new “Kingdom of The Little People” theme park is disturbing, but not quite as disturbing as the audiences reveling in the zoo-like displays of little people: Post from: BlissTree You Know You're Unwell If… You Go To This Dwarf Theme Park (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3475786 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:00:22 +0100 3475786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2614008&cid=t_314926_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F26P7O1fRDg0%2F I know this sounds off-topic for a human-health blog, but bear with me in this: Dog researchers have discovered a gene event that may have implications for understanding human dwarfism. Published early in Science, scientists found that those cute-looking short-legged dog pedigrees that include Bassett Hounds and Dachshunds are products of a single mutational event in the dog evolution. Somewhere in evolution when dogs separated from the wolves, a mutation caused certain dogs to have short legs, and that mutation was preserved through time to create the modern-day short-leg breeds like the dachshund, corgi, Pekingese and basset hound. In these dogs, scientists found an extra copy of a gene that codes for a growth-promoting protein called fibroblast growth factor 4 (FGF4). The extra gene ... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2614008 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:28:50 +0100 2614008