Old McDonald's has a hold on kids' taste buds, Stanford/Packard study finds
... ... The study shows that even young children are swayed by brand preferences. The results are likely to fuel...Once-fatal metabolic disorders treatable, says Stanford/Packard researcher
STANFORD, Calif. -- People with a class of rare genetic disorders that ...often lead to brain damage, coma and death can be successfully ...treated with drugs, says a researcher at the Stanford University ...School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. ... The researchers found in their unprecedented 25-year study that ...prompt diagnosis coupled with a rapid start of intravenous...Severe PTSD damages children's brains, Stanford/Packard study shows
... Although similar effects have been seen in animal studies, this is the first time the findings have been replicated in children. The researchers focused on kids in extreme...Drug treatment improves learning in mice with Down syndrome symptoms, Stanford/Packard study shows
... "This treatment has remarkable potential," said Craig Garner, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and...New info on eating disorders in two Stanford/Packard children's studies
STANFORD, Calif. - Parenting a child with an eating disorder - ...monitoring meals, friends and activities - can be a full-time job. ...But two new studies from researchers at the Stanford University ...School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital indicate a ...need for increased vigilance in two key areas: Internet use among ...adolescents with the condition, and pre-teen weight lo...Packard scientists announce first international gene search for typical ALS
Though it's the more common form of the disease, sporadic ALS, which affects roughly 90 percent of those living with the fatal neurodegenerative illness, has been the one less studied, simply because, unlike familial ALS, no genes have turned up. ...... This week, however Bryan Traynor, M.D. and John Hardy, Ph.D., scientist-grantees with the Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins, are b...Watch not, want not? Packard/Stanford study links kids' TV time and consumerism
STANFORD, Calif. - Peace at any price? More than one parent has forked over cash in a desperate bid to stop their kids' badgering for the hottest toy or the latest snack. Now researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford's School of Medicine have found that the more time California third-graders spent in front of the tube or playing video games, the more often they asked an adult...Benefits of nitric oxide vary in preemies, Stanford/Packard researchers say
STANFORD, Calif. - Doctors have been trying for many years to improve the survival rate of very premature infants, whose immature lungs are often not up to the task of living outside the womb. Inhaled nitric oxide has shown some success in treating full-term infants with life-threatening lung disease, and physicians have been eager to learn if this treatment would help premature infants as well.....Kids with bedroom TV sets have lower standardized test scores, Stanford/Packard study shows
STANFORD, Calif. - Want to improve your child's standardized test scores? You might want to start by booting out the television that likely occupies a place of honor in your youngster's bedroom and booting up a computer elsewhere in the home.... ...A new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University indicates that third-graders with televisions in...