October 31st, 2005 by 
Jeanette
AAAS Announces 2005 Fellows; Three Recognized for Work at JHU: “… and Harry C. Dietz III, a professor of pediatrics in the School of Medicine, for “identification of the genetic basis of Marfan’s syndrome and the influence of nonsense mutations on gene expression….”
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October 17th, 2005 by Jeanette
NORFOLK - A nurse brought the news to Dr. Joseph Newton while he was in surgery to remove a tumor from a patient�s lung.
Click here A woman who was 37 weeks pregnant was on her way from Portsmouth Naval Medical Center. And she not only needed her baby delivered, but urgently required a life-saving heart procedure. One of the most difficult there is.
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October 4th, 2005 by Jeanette
The News Journal ? Marfan syndrome is a daily struggle: “When people used to meet Bobbie Foust, they often would notice the protruding belly on the otherwise slim 42-year-old and ask whether it was a boy or a girl.
Foust, who wasn’t having a baby, got tired of correcting people, so she had a special T-shirt made.
The front reads: ‘I’m not pregnant, I have Marfan syndrome.’ On the back is a laundry list of symptoms that illustrate the complexity of the condition, which affects the connective tissue in her body.”
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