Environmental exposures before and after birth can harm children's lungs
...r combustion sources. While PAHs and ETS can harm boys and girls, the study found preliminary evidence th...eads to cough and wheeze in boys, possibly because boys tend to have smaller airways, which may increase the risk for airway hyperreactivity or inflammation...Support for fragile X syndrome needed
...ulsivity, hyper-arousal and anxiety. Many affected boys display autistic-like features or pervasive developmental disorder. "Unfortunately few resources are available in Montreal and Quebec to inform parents, clinicians and teachers about the syndrome," explains Kim Cornish, director of McGill's Neuroscie...November nutrition news from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts
...n younger populations. The study of more than 300 boys and girls ages 10 to 19, primarily Caucasian and A...es from fat. The research suggests that girls and boys may read nutrition labels for different reasons. The authors note the possibility that boys might re...US researchers warn of possible fertility risk to men using laptop computers on their laps
...ility experts (Thursday 9 December) warned teenage boys and young men to consider limiting the time that t... this type of thermal exposure", he said, "teenage boys and young men may consider limiting their use of LC on their laps, as long-term use may have a detri...Your brain and you: Forecasting the ethical challenges ahead for neuroscience and society
...men had distinctive brain responses to pictures of boys in underwear." Advances in neurochemistry are also...the subtle coercion of having all the other little boys in the class on Ritalin? Then your kid looks like a bad student in comparison unless he also takes ...A gene's fist 'kiss' sets off that affair known as puberty
...TSBURGH, Jan. 31 Puberty, that awkward phase when boys and girls are primed for their sexual reproductive years as men and women, appears to be triggered by the brain's own version of "It takes two to tango," whereby a signal literally gets turned on by a molecule that is produced by a gene aptly named ...... 46 XY makeup, will tend to identify themselves as boys if they can react and respond to male hormone, and even if they are born without a penis, underwent surgical reassignment and were raised as girls. "These children know who they are," Reiner said. "It's encouraging that many more surgeons today are c...How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health
...in Y chromosome sperm would lead to an increase in boys being born, or what might be the mechanism involve...al testes. The Lithuanian study investigated 1,204 boys born in one hospital in Lithuania between October 1996 and November 1997. The boys were examined at ...Newly discovered genetic disease sheds light on body's water balance
Two infant boys whose bodies were overloaded with excess fluid hav...ously. The fact that the two affected patients are boys is not a coincidence, as the AVPR2 gene is X-linked and only inherited from the mother's side, but n...Genetic factors partly influence differences in language development
... individual differences in the language ability of boys and girls. "Establishing the role of genetic influences in diverse aspects of language is only a first step in providing a foundation and a motivation for molecular genetic studies to find the multiple specific genes involved," said Kovas. "Similarly...Pediatricians lack confidence in managing obesity, and their own weight might be an important factor
...tted on charts that give population norms for both boys and girls ages 2 to 20. "Whereas adults should ideally have body mass indexes that are less than 25, for children appropriate BMI is age and gender-dependent," Perrin said. "That's why it is useful to have BMI charts that help pediatricians see when ...Fruit fly helps reveal the secrets of the fragile-X-syndrome
...f mental retardation and occurs much more often in boys than in girls. Children with the fragile-X-syndrome have certain characteristic features, such as a long face with a large chin, protruding ears, and a high forehead. As a child, they frequently have behavior problems and are sometimes hyperactive, a...Environment and genetic influences play different roles in boys' and girls' gender-role behavior
Whether little boys prefer to play with trucks or dolls depends more o...n within the sexes in terms of the extent to which boys and girls adopt masculine-typical or feminine-typical behaviors. To reach their conclusions, the re...Gene therapy works in mice to prevent blindness that strikes boys
...orders. Retinoschisis is usually first detected in boys between 5 and 10 years of age when their vision pr...he right eyes of 15-day-old male mice, which, like boys with the disease, don't have the healthy gene to maintain the retina. In terms of disease developmen......s in croup, such as the relative susceptibility of boys to the disease, its peak occurrence in the second year of life and its predominance in late autumn and earlier winter, that are matched by patterns of HCoV-NL63 occurrence. This systematic association of croup with HCoV-NL63 is particularly timely a...Missouri genetic disorder's roots untangled by international team
... that formerly caused seizures and death in infant boys within a month of birth. The researchers discover... in the bloodstream. Once they knew that affected boys had low parathyroid levels, doctors began successfully treating them with high doses of vitamin D th...Early cardiac screening necessary for muscular dystrophy patients
...nts with muscular dystrophy and is present in most boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and approximately...ildren's Hospital. Towbin and his group studied 69 boys with DMD and BMD. After the first abnormal echocardiogram, which occurred at 14-15 years, 31 boys we...Winners of 2005 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
...ce, from the politically sensitive debate over how boys and girls learn about math to the risks of fish farms to the search by physicists for an elusive force that shapes the universe and accelerates its expansion. "Monastersky's work stands out for its meticulous explanatory reporting of a remarkably bro...Study hints at role of stem cell genes in testicular, breast cancers
...ich are located in the testis and produce sperm in boys following puberty. Germ cells, like all cells of the body, develop from embryonic stem cells, and go through a multi-stage evolution in their structure and genetic activity before attaining their mature state. The study revealed that the genetic misr...Univ. of Chicago scientists find potential cause of breathing problems in Rett Syndrome children
...ne can compensate for much of the dysfunction. For boys there is no compensation; males die young, within the first year of life. Severity of RS can vary. In some, RS is so serious that the child can no longer talk, sit or walk. Many children with RS die before they reach their teenage years, and breathin...