Teen alcohol and drug disorders more common than previously thought
...ideal position to identify problems - more so than parents - many health care providers do not routinely ask ...ough the questions appear simple, Knight cautioned parents that the tool is not designed for their use at home. "It's tempting for parents to think that this i...... Wennerholm concluded: "What is most important for parents to know is that the absolute risk for a serious congenital malformation or chromosomal aberration associated with IVF or ICSI is small. For many couples who otherwise could not achieve a pregnancy the slight increase in risk associated with these tec...Fertility treatments increase incidence of twins at a cost
...nd 8 ounces.) According to Behrman, when potential parents undergo fertility treatments that could result in multiple births, they undertake a double risk. "Not only do they take the chance of having more children than they bargained for but of having children with less satisfactory education and economic pr...Hopkins scientists return to the mouse to overcome some obstacles in working with human stem cells
...e first isolated and characterized at Hopkins, the parents gave informed consent to provide the fetal tissue, but no genetic samples from the parents were taken. Their solution to the obstacles was to mate males of one kind of mouse to females of ano...Rare childhood bone disorder linked to gene deletion in two Navajo patients
...in. However, analysis of the JPD patients' healthy parents revealed that each had only one copy of the gene. Furthermore, no osteoprotegerin was found in the blood of the two patients with JPD. The researchers conclude that these results provide both a cause and a mechanism for this rare bone disease, at lea...New study shows passive cigarette smoke at least doubles risk of cancer in cats
...ion, other studies have suggested that children of parents who smoke may have an increased risk of developing lymphoma. The results of these studies, however, are often hard to prove due to the myriad of other risk factors that people face. In sharing their living environments with humans, cats are exposed ...Genes, maltreatment, and the cycle of violence
...tory, vague genetic factors, and the perception by parents that their adolescent's behavior is abnormal in so... major problem and it is hard to imagine that many parents and society at large would not want to use medical means to "treat" those at risk. Is the MAOA findi...Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF): From maternal deprivation to manic depressive illness
...zed the patterns of inheritance of these SNPs from parents to their children with bipolar disorder. They found that a single SNP that causes an amino acid change in the BDNF protein is associated with bipolar disorder. This SNP is part of a larger haplotype - a set of SNPs that travel together - that resid...Netting the NET: An anorexia nervosa gene is caught!
...he restricting type of anorexia nervosa, and their parents were tested, the parents were shown to pass on the long form significantly more often than the short form to their children. ...Research links adolescent steroid use to reduction in serotonin, altered signaling
...ng teenagers has caused considerable concern among parents and researchers over the past decade, but until now, the longer-term physiological and neurological effects of its use on the developing brain have not been fully examined. Now, new research from Northeastern University, published in the latest issue...High risk of mental health problems in adoptees from other countries
...ptees; children born in Sweden to two Swedish-born parents (general population); Swedish-born siblings of ado... take seriously the concerns of adoptees and their parents and intervene with appropriate consideration of the high risk of suicidal behaviour." In an accompan...US Women scientists from Latin America to encourage colleagues from south
...as ten. By 17, she had settled on biology. But her parents disagreed. It was as if a newborn bird had been pu...s, she said of her efforts to study mathematicsher parents choice. I was strong enough to move toward what I wanted, rather than doing what my parents wanted m...Not drinking cows' milk blamed for children's fractures
... provide milk at home. Although 97 per cent of the parents of the children recognised that cows' milk was an important nutritional food for growing children, few sought advice on possible supplements from health professionals. "It is essential that the diet should supply sufficient calcium for the needs of t...A genetic contribution to obsessive compulsive disorder
...bject affected by OCD. The genetic make up of the parents was compared to that of the patients to determine if DNA is a reason for OCD. The parents of patients were found to pass on more often one of the variants of the 5HT1Dbeta receptor gene to t...Long-term studies show most intersex adults happy with gender assignments at birth
...with the gender assigned to them at birth by their parents and doctors. A companion study showed that almost ...ldren, they are often assigned to female gender by parents and doctors, undergoing surgeries and hormone treatments, to be reared as girls. Of the 39 participa...Gene therapy treats first disease affecting multiple organ systems in a large animal
...or of the National MPS Society, an organization of parents of children with MPS. "Their current and ongoing research will provide new insights into the treatment of individuals affected with these devastating disorders." In these experiments, two- to three-day-old dogs with MPS VII received four simple intr......have assets and liabilities; alcoholism among both parents often weighs the ledger very strongly toward the l...hese patterns across time. "For children who have parents who are both alcoholics, the risks are manifold as this increases both genetic risk and reduces po...Study: Genome-wide scanning unravels complex birth defect
...m probed the genomes of an affected child and both parents from 43 Old Order Mennonite families. Hirschsprung disease occurs in Mennonite communities in about 1 out of 500 births, a rate roughly 10 times higher than in the general population. Using special computer software they developed, the scientists sea...Scientists discover genetic defect responsible for microcephaly
...of the gene to the child who has the disorder. The parents are called MCPHA carriers because they have one no...t do not show symptoms of the disorder. When both parents are carriers of the changed gene, each of their children has a 25 percent chance of having the disor......elopmental abnormalities in the brain. This is why parents are counseled to take their newborns on frequent outings to new environments, and why strollers, cribs, and bassinets are outfitted with objects sharply patterned in black and white or contrasting primary colors. Far fewer studies have investigated p...