New York Scientists Win Prize for Treatment of disease that can cause fatal brain hemorrhages in unborn babies and newborn children | NRL News Today: Dr. Richard Berkowitz and Dr. James Bussel have received the King Faisal International Prize for Medicine for pioneering treatment of alloimmune thrombocytopenia, an auto-immune disease which can cause fatal brain hemorrhages in unborn babies and newborn children. “The cause is unclear,” wrote Clem Richardson of the New York Daily News, “but the illness causes the mother’s immune system to attack the fetus as if it were a foreign body or disease.” The scientists gave mothers high doses of steroids as part of the treatment, but are looking for alternatives.
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