Study shows dramatic increase in wrist fractures over 30-year span
...corresponding decline in milk consumption." Since childhood and adolescence is the time when the bone mass tha...be needed to investigate the causes of the rise in childhood wrist fractures. Also additional follow-up will be necessary to see if the increase in wrist fractu...Mayo Clinic study finds increase in forearm fractures among adolescents
... Dr. Khosla. Adequate bone-mass development during childhood is critical to preventing osteoporosis and the related bone fractures that can occur later in life. "Increasing rates for forearm fractures in children could mean we will see a dramatic increase in the risk for hip fractures and other more serious f...Other highlights in the September 17 issue of JNCI
...mice, according to a new study. Neuroblastomas are childhood tumors of sympathetic nervous tissue. Catherine A....ltimately be clinically useful in the treatment of childhood neuroblastoma," the authors conclude. Researchers Address Questions about the Design of Dual-Label...Childhood abuse related to alcoholism in Native Americans
...eventive Medicine, is the first to look at adverse childhood environments as a risk factor for alcoholism acros..., the researchers collected information on adverse childhood experiences ranging from emotional neglect to physical abuse to adoption and boarding school attenda...Most adult survivors of childhood cancer consider themselves in good health
...HIS, TENN.--September 24, 2003) Adult survivors of childhood cancer generally consider themselves to be in good...percent reported some sort of impairment linked to childhood cancer or its treatment. Factors associated with reporting at least one health-related problem were ...Study points to long-term health problems for pediatric cancer survivors
DALLAS Sept. 24, 2003 Nearly half of childhood cancer survivors have at least one fairly signific...r survivors as they grow older. Survival rates for childhood cancers now exceed 78 percent, resulting in a growing population of long-term survivors, said Dr. Oe...Study links IQ and affluence level to longevity
...und between IQ and deprivation suggests that IQ in childhood is less important in terms of mortality for people...eater chance of death for every 15 points of lower childhood IQ. After adjusting for deprivation and social class, this difference was reduced to 12 percent. The...Health of independent clinical trials in danger, scientist warns
...ome to see such big improvements in mortality from childhood cancers the rates have fallen in the past 25 year...%. The Directive puts the future of research into childhood cancers seriously under threat', said Prof. Meunier. Surgery and radiotherapy are also important in...First study to show link between children's solid tumours and their mothers' breast cancer
...t is known that some genes are involved in certain childhood cancers and breast cancer in mothers, but we don't know when and how the process of carcinogenesis is initiated. The present study suggests that a crucial period for the development of both breast cancer in mothers and certain cancers in children is ...More children survive cancer but the after-effects present a challenge to doctors
...agen, Denmark: The number of children who survive childhood cancer is improving dramatically, but because of t...l problems. Prof. Mann said that all survivors of childhood cancer required some form of follow-up, even those with no problems recorded. However, more researc...New study of obesity, genes and socio-economic status uses individual growth curves
...ects of genes on the development of obesity during childhood is not well understood; as the problem grows, so d...ignificant role in the development of obesity from childhood to adulthood. Methodology Growth curves using hallmarks of obesity -- body mass index, waist circ...Obesity can be harmful to your child's mental health
... calling attention to the mental health impacts of childhood obesity--a burgeoning public health crisis in the U.S. A study at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey found that obese girls ages 13 to 14 are four times more likely to experience low self-esteem than non-obese girls. The study a...In childhood leukemia study, aggressive chemotherapy cuts deaths by 37%
...ia, or T-ALL, which accounts for 15 percent of all childhood leukemia cases and is fatal in nearly four in 10 children. While dozens of drugs are routinely used to treat children with the disease, the study sheds new light on the fundamental questions about their use: Which combination of those drugs is mo...Weight control throughout life key to reducing risk of raised blood pressure in middle age
...igators made a similar assessment of the effect of childhood social class on adult blood pressure. Over 3600 p...age 53 years. People from a manual social class in childhood had higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure than those from a non-manual class and this effect ...Parents favor counseling over meds for kids' anxiety
...isorder, a preference that has also been noted for childhood depression and attention-deficit disorder therapy. Parents "may be particularly concerned about medication side effects," say Denise Chavira, Ph.D., of the University of California, San Diego and colleagues. The study in the Journal of Developmental ...Monkeys consciously control a robot arm using only brain signals
...n sharp contrast to traditional views that only in childhood is the brain plastic enough to allow for such adaptation. According to Nicolelis, the finding that their brain-machine interface system can work in animals will have direct application to clinical development of neuroprosthetic devices for paralyzed ...The changing face of severe asthma
...ected that severe asthma differs considerably from childhood to adulthood, and indeed that turned out to be the...also indicates that patients whose asthma began in childhood rapidly lose lung function through adolescence then level off to a more moderate decline as they rea...UK childhood blindness more common than previously thought
...issue of THE LANCET. The study also highlights how childhood visual impairment is associated with lower socio-e...e prevention of visual impairment and blindness in childhood is an international priority. However, many countries do not have contemporary information about inc...Childhood obesity? School food service personnel say NIMBY
... personnel revealed that the respondents perceived childhood obesity as a national U.S. problem but not in thei...dents did not see that school meals play a role in childhood obesity. It's important for school personnel to be aware of the problem in order to be part of the ......lain diverse brain changes that occur during early childhood and that go awry in later stages of life in Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease. The researchers, led by Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Michael Ehlers, M.D., published their findings in the Oct. 30, 2003, issue of the journal Neuron. Other author...