Childhood Sex Abuse Impacts Adult Relationships
...r life depends on the quality of the abused girl's childhood attachment. Girls with a secure, responsive relationship in childhood with their mothers or other primary caregivers have some protection against the long-term negative e...Airport Noise Can Seriously Affect The Health And Psychological Well-Being OfChildren
...dications, hesays, that elevated blood pressure in childhood predicts higher blood pressurelater in life. Boosts in stress hormones also are of concern because they indicate that noiseinduces physiological stress. These hormones are linked to adult illnesses,some of which are life-threatening, including h...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
...he wrote. Scientific research on fetal and childhood development also neglectstobacco studies, wrote Slotkin, with cocaine the subject of three to four timesthe number of published research papers as nicotine. Also, wrote Slotkin, many physicians perceive cocaine as causing birthdefects and cou...Candles with lead wicks emit lead into the air
...se dust is widely recognized as a primary route of childhood lead exposurethrough hand-to-mouth activities. "Assuming that only 50 percent of the lead released is deposited in an areameasuring 12 feet by 15 feet (such as a living room), we estimate that theloading of the lead to house dust will exceed the U.S....Cure Rate Soars For Some AML Patients Receiving High-Dose Drug
...ts; this rate approaches that for some types of childhood leukemia,” said Clara Bloomfield, director of Ohio State University's Comprehensive Cancer Center and William G. Pace III Professor of Cancer Research. “Because high-dose cytarabine is quite toxic, especially for older pe...Now Is Time To Design Brain-Saving Drugs Specifically For Children, UCSF Neurologist Says
...n properly." Other labs are working on a range of childhood brain disorders. Ferriero'sCurrent Opinion editori...s Angeles describe how the geneticunderpinnings of childhood epilepsies may lead to new, highly specifictreatments for seizures -- and also may show why some ch...... The study is part of an effort to maintain high childhood immunizationrates despite an increasingly demanding Childhood Immunization Schedule, withrequirements that leave many children missing inoculations and facing healthrisks that multiply medical costs. The pilot weighs the economic value ofcombining va...Prenatal Smoking Leads To Antisocial Behavior In Children
...fants, but this deficit did not persist into later childhood andadolescence. Prenatal smoking was associated with what the researchers termed"neurobehavioral difficulties" in infants, which later developed into conductproblems. These findings confirm previous reports that prenatal smoking is a riskfactor fo...Canada's Most Powerful Supercomputer Now At Sick Kids
...t can be used to improvediagnosis and treatment of childhood diseases. A job that would take the fastest PC currently on the market three months tocomplete will take just a few minutes on the Origin 2000. "We will use the Origin 2000 initially for research in two key areas: searchingfor similarities in gene se...Slowing Excess Weight Gain In Childhood Appears To Reduce Adult Heart Disease Risk
...t disease is feasible by controlling weight during childhood andadolescence. The Minneapolis Children's...d source. Sinaiko says that body weight in childhood tends to predict theprevalence of risk factors that crop up when people are in their early 20s, inpa...New Research Identifies Outcomes And Future Trends Based On Past Behaviors, Experience
... Project," [Amminger, p. 525, #6828] describes how childhood characteristics were used toidentify adult outcomes in families at high-risk of schizophrenia and affectivedisorders. A University of Amsterdam study, "Association Between MemoryComplaints and Incident Alzheimer's Disease in Elderly People With Norm......nd early trials of promising new therapies. While childhood brain tumors are rare, they have surpassed acute l...ever, new treatment possibilities are emerging for childhood brain tumors,said NCI director Richard Klausner, MD. "The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortiumwill be a...Experts Meet In Canada To Discuss Vaccine Progress
...us influenza type B. Besides its impact on early childhood mortality, PAHO Director Dr. George A.O.Alleyne sees wider applications for vaccine technology to improve health andreduce poverty. He has called for "a major effort for research, development,production and utilization of vaccines," through internati...IOM Report Offers New Look At U.S. Vaccine Priorities
... influenzaetype b (Hib), formerly a major cause of childhood meningitis, varicella zoster(chickenpox), and rotavirus, a leading cause of serious infant diarrhea. Despite these advances, the report cites legal and other barriers to progressthat remain. For example, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program cover...Baby Talk: Parents Do Make A Difference, By Promoting Childhood Chatter, From Birth To Age 3
...ives--at least from birth to age 3--by encouraging childhood chatter,researchers with the University of Delaware and Temple University contend. "Parents do make a difference," says Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, UD's H.Rodney Sharp Professor of Education. "The stimulation parents and othercaregivers provide in ......in life may affect an individual's health wellinto childhood and beyond," she said. "My research has shown that this isoccurring, with protection against asthma and allergy from exclusivebreastfeeding (and no introduction of other formula or milk) extending intochildhood." Obesity and Asthma Obesity ...Newest Depression Medications Widely Prescribed For Children
...ing received adequatetraining in the management of childhood depression, and 16 percent "reportedfeeling comfor...specialty, degreeof comfort with the management of childhood depression, and availability ofreferral to mental health specialists. Even after taking demo...Asthma In American Indian And Alaska Native Children
Asthma. Although asthma is the most common chronic childhood illness in theUnited States, little is known about its prevalence among American Indian andAlaska Native children. The authors of a study published in the May/June 1999 issue of thejournal Public Health Reports used the latest available data...Major Causes Of Early Childhood Death From Injury Identified
... Dr. Brenner added that efforts to prevent childhood injuries andinjury-related deaths should continue to focus on such general strategies as theuse of car safety seats for infants and visiting home nurse programs for young,unmarried mothers. She pointed out, however, that there is also a need todevel......NCISCO -- Persons treated for Hodgkin's disease in childhood areat high risk for developing a second malignancy and should be monitored closelyby their physicians throughout their lifetime, researchers at the University atBuffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) have shown. Results of two stud...