Study shows impact of emotionally healthy fathers when mothers' poor mental health affects children
... Medical Center study points to the important role fathers play in their children's emotional and behavioral health. The study shows that a father in good mental health can substantially reduce the negative influence of a mother's poor mental health on a child's behavioral and emotional well-being. "If a mot...Excess thyroid hormone harmful to fetus
...ait, which means that affected mothers or affected fathers transfer the mutation to half of their progeny. Thus, the high thyroid hormone levels of affected mothers, which are normal for them because of reduced hormone sensitivity, will be excessive only to the unaffected fetuses they carry. In contrast, un...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...mation from these individuals and their mothers or fathers that would allow them to estimate each person's radiation dose using computer models. Interviews took place in the home and were conducted by Russian physicians.Individual doses depended largely on the ingestion patterns of food contaminated with rad...