Irritable Bowel Syndrome The Focus Of Three UNC-CH Reports At Digestive Diseases Conference
... - especially those who were abusedsexually during childhood - may be at increased risk of depression and suici...shington and North Carolina. All forms of abuse,in childhood or adulthood, were significantly associated with self-reporteddepression and self-reported suicide a...Near-Sightedness In Children Linked To Light Exposure During Sleep Before Age Two
...sence of a nightly period of fulldarkness in early childhood may be an important risk factor in the futuredevel...not establish that nighttime lighting during early childhood isa direct cause of myopia, and there are undoubtedly other risk factors. Still,it would seem advisa...Quality Parenting Helps Kids Cope With Inner-City Stress
... who thrived despite the stresses of an inner-city childhood hadparents who were nurturing and emotionally responsive, were consistent andauthoritative in using discipline, and had positive expectations for theirchildren's future, reports Peter A. Wyman, Ph.D., head of the study. "Quality parenting can promote...Women, men view and judge childhood sexual abuses cases differently
...weigh the evidenceand render a verdict in either a childhood physical or sexual abuse case basedon an actual ci...aintiff claimedto have repressed the memory of the childhood abuse, while the other half didnot mention repression. After reading a case summary, subjec...Major study finds effects of child care quality linger into the second grade
...from the investigators is that thequality of early childhood care and education programs should be boostedsignificantly through government and private sector support, taxincentives and improved teacher training. The research, which cost about $1.3 million, was funded bygrants from the Carnegie Corpor......andadolescent development, particularly the middle childhood years. The Penn State Family Relations...er in the fourth or fifth grade. Middle childhood -- after preschool and before adolescence -- is acrucial period as children increase participation i...Federal agencies report on nation's children
...are also less likely to receive the completeset of childhood immunizations and are more likely to have difficulties inschool. There has been a growing income disparity reflecting a higher proportionof children in extreme poverty as well as in high-income families. Since 1980,the percentage of children...Boys treated with Ritalin, other stimulants significantly less likely to abuse drugs later
... The adults with ADHD had developedthe disorder in childhood and, in most cases, the disorder was neither diagnosednor treated until much later....Marriage rates differ only slightly in childhood cancer survivors
... these individuals received for their childhood braintumors often produced permanent after-effects such asdecreased intellectual ability, and memory andneuropsychological problems. In general, part...Popular notions about breast cancer-psychology link challenged
...st cancer to anxiety and depression,non-supportive childhood family environments, expression of anger, orextroversion/introversion personality factors. "Connections between personality, psychosocial factors, and physical illness doexist," said Michael A. Zevon, Ph.D., one of the authors of the study. "However...Breast milk only for first four months helps protect against asthma and atopy
...ding which may help reduce the community burden of childhood asthma. Dr Wendy Oddy from the Institute for Child...t there was a significant reduction in the risk of childhood asthma by the time they reached this age, if they had been exclusively breast fed for at least four ...Treatments reduce strep-triggered symptoms of OCD and tics in some children
...eof their safety and effectiveness in a variety of childhood and adultimmune-related diseases. Researchers rated symptom severity at baseline and atone month and twelve months after treatment, using standardized assessments forOCD, tics, anxiety, depression, and normal behavior. Of the 29 children who complete...(Madrid, 11 October 1999) Regular contact during childhood with farm animalscould provide lasting protection against allergic illnesses, according to theauthors of a broad-ranging study conducted in Austria on 2283 children agedbetween 8 and 10. The study, which was presented on Monday at the meeting of theE...Cancer treatment may cause learning problems in children
...00, one in 1,000 young adultswill be a survivor of childhood cancer. Radiation therapy's harmful effects oncognitive abilities are well documented. Evidence of learning difficulties fromcentral nervous system chemotherapy surfaced much more recently. Most leukemia patients in this study underwent this partic......hird mostcommon - and one of the most deadly -- of childhood cancers. The National Cancer Institute-sponsored s... study. Though neuroblastoma is common in terms of childhood cancer,it still is relatively rare. No single cancer center cares for enough youngpatients to mount ...Efforts to tackle obesity should begin in early childhood
...f obesity was conservative, the true prevalence of childhood obesity in the UK is likely to be higher than indicated in their study....Federal institutes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation create Tobacco Use Research Centers
...vid B. Abrams, Ph.D. Theme: identify early childhood and lifetime psychiatric factors thatdetermine smoking initiation, dependence, use patterns, cessation, and responseto cessation treatment; The University of California at Irvine Principal Investigator: Frances M. Leslie, Ph....Emotional and physical toll of being poor
...nction and Cardiovascular Disease: How does one's childhood influence behavior and physical and mental health ...etermine how birth weight, growth patterns through childhood and socio-economic conditions impact self-esteem, personal uncertainty, sense of coherence, hostilit...Heart disease begins at a young age
...isease and stroke prevention should begin early in childhood -- before smoking, bad dietary habits, and other causes of heart disease and stroke, such as high blood pressure, physical inactivity, obesity or diabetes, become established, says the senior author of the study, E. Murat Tuzcu, M.D., director of the...People from large families may have greater risk of Alzheimer's
...any environmental factors in the participants' childhood were related to developing Alzheimer's. "The e... brain that take the longest time to mature during childhood and adolescence, Moceri said. "A poor quality childhood environment could prevent the brain from rea...