Northwestern chemists develop new method for synthesizing anti-cancer flavonoids
...the right handed compound was a teratogen, causing children to be born with malformations, such as missing limbs. (Ibuprofen also is a one-to-one mixture with one hand as the active ingredient; the mirror image does nothing.) After much trial and error in the lab, Scheidt and his colleagues hit upon a catal...Teens get needed access to care with state health insurance
...se with greater access to preventative care, these children will be more likely to learn ways to grow into hea...ated in 1991 and uses managed care plans. New York children are eligible for coverage between birth and 18 years of age, if they are at or below 230 percent of ...Kennedy Krieger Institute launches first national online autism registry
...wo important ways: Data Collection - Parents of children with autism will be engaged online, providing valu...hypotheses and search for parallels among affected children in ways that have not been previously possible. Research Recruitment - IAN will match parents of ...Addressing the neglect of childhood hearing impairment in developing countries
...ege London, UK) in PLoS Medicine. "The number of children worldwide with hearing impairment is increasing," says Dr Olusanya, "and these children face a number of obstacles and burdens, given that spoken language is the predominant medium of comm...Healthy schools project gets an 'A'
...o possible links with cancer, one in five American children is obese. However, a collaborative program sponsor...ty of Michigan and the Ann Arbor community teaches children healthy habits and offers hope for a healthier future. And results from a new study suggest that the...Scientists identify cells responsible for relapse after treatment in common childhood cancer
Approximately 20% of children with ALL will experience a relapse of their diseas...emission. "We have shown, for the first time, that children with a greater number of these cells at diagnosis are more likely to experience relapse much sooner ...'The eyes have it' -- Autism research yields surprising results
Autistic children are able to interpret the mental state of others b...revious studies, psychologists found that autistic children can read a strangers mental state based on that persons eyes. Autistic children have long been thoug...Children's Hospital Boston presents at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions
...ntil Monday, 3/26, 2:30 p.m. CT) Not only can most children with a heart transplant exercise safely, but new r... tests performed serially (usually annually) in 51 children who had received a heart transplant. The tests showed a steady improvement in peak heart rate; 2, 4,...Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder at risk for alcohol problems
Prior research has shown that children with ADHD can develop alcohol problems later in li...ism and family stress appear to add to the risk of children with ADHD developing alcohol problems themselves. Researchers believe that children with attention ...Loperamide therapy for acute diarrhea in children
Loperamide therapy for acute diarrhea in children The drug loperamide is widely used as a treatme...utweighs the benefits, even at low doses. In other children the drug may play a useful part in the treatment of diarrhoea. Citation: Li ST, Grossman DC, Cumm...Forsyth scientists wiping out tooth decay through school-based cavities prevention program
...evention program, which provides elementary school children with oral health education, dental exams, cleanings and preventive care. For children enrolled in the program, one round of treatment reduced new cavities by 50%. After two rounds of the...Jones to receive IADR Award in Geriatric Oral Research
...specific health-related quality-of-life project in children and adolescents funded by the NIH as part of the Northeast Center to Evaluate and Eliminate Dental Disparities. Her research interests include geriatric oral health and the relationships among systemic health, oral health, and quality of life. Dr. ...NSW Premier announces $15M for children's cancer research
... genetic testing to tailorchemotherapy regimes for children being treated with leukaemia. "This method of taking discovery at the laboratory bench to the bedside in a rapid manner is animportant principle for us as we know that the cure rates and care improvements we have seenover the last three decades have ...Study of leukemia survivors gives hints for better care
...esearch Hospital. ALL is the most common cancer in children and adolescentswith about 3,000 new cases diagnose... The finding is important because the cure rate of children treated for ALL has increased dramatically since the 1960s, approaching 90 percent today at St. Jude...Biosand filter reduces diarrheal disease in Dominican Republic villages
...o 40 percent, including in highly vulnerable young children less than 5 years old. At the end of the study, fi...ey told me they no longer need to worry about sick children who have to miss school, or about taking the children to the doctor or finding money to buy medicati...Online book helps children understand the effects of stroke
...d and what to expect. That's especially true for children whose parents or grandparents have a stroke, accor...could help." Now a new resource is available for children through the Internet Stroke Center at Washington University School of Medicine, a stroke information...Promoting healthy scepticism of health statistics
News headlines such as "Hunger kills 6 million children a year" are commonplace, but many readers are ill-equipped to assess or interpret the quality of the information provided, according to an article in a Series about health statistics in this weeks issue of The Lancet. Politicians, policymakers, and...Report reveals human face of Pennsylvania's Medicaid program
...Medical Assistance with approximately one-third of children in the Commonwealth covered. However, a look at th...des a more nuanced picture, with the proportion of children covered in the different counties ranging from 12.3 percent to 63 percent in 2006. Although children...Study suggests wearing no-line bifocals slows myopia progression in some children
Rockville, Md. -- Certain children who wear a special kind of no-line bifocal lenses ...sual Science (IOVS). The study found that among children with two myopic parents, myopia progression was slower in children wearing progressive-addition lens......ted for socioeconomic status, and still found that children of one-parent households were at an increased risk...ributes to the higher risk for sexual abuse. While children from lower income one-parent households are at a higher risk, better socioeconomics of the household...