World's largest respiratory health study launches next phase
...herimportant finding was that obese seven year old girls have three times the risk of developing newasthma as adults, as normal weight girls do. The Asthma Foundation of Tasmania (AFT) CEO Cathy Beswick said the AFT was one of thesponsors o...Obese girls less likely to attend college
AUSTIN, Texas -- Obese girls are half as likely to attend college as non-obese ...of Texas at Austin. The study also shows obese girls are even less likely to enter college if they attend a high school where obesity is relatively uncom...First of its kind report on how children with brain tumors perform at school
...ades in foreign language are the most affected and girls have a harder time than boys in getting good grade...bility to learn new information. Lhteenmki says girls may be more sensitive to the adverse effects of radiation therapy, which has been regarded as the ma...Researchers develop criteria to detect bone mass deficiencies in children with chronic diseases
...nd that bone mass is still increasing at age 16 in girls and 17 in boys, underscoring the importance of maintaining healthy nutrition and lifestyle habits as teens approach adulthood and identifying children prone to bone deficiencies. Dr. Kalkwarf said most people continue to accumulate bone mass into the...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
...n the study. In the past year, 10.6 percent of the girls and 9.5 percent of the boys reported that they had...ced dating violence and 11.7 percent of adolescent girls and 7.2 percent of adolescent boys reported that they had attempted suicide one or more times. For g...Study examines characteristics of female high school students who report steroid use
Steroid use among teen girls is not limited to those involved in competitive at... Prevention reported that 7 percent of ninth-grade girls reported ever using anabolic steroids, according to background information in the article. During th...Female teen steroid use not limited to athletes
...ience University have found steroid use among teen girls is not limited to athletes and often goes hand in ...Behavior Survey of 7,544 ninth- through 12th-grade girls from around the country. The questionnaire asked about sports participation, anabolic steroid and dr...International studies show high efficacy for HPV vaccine
...oversy has been raised about giving pre-adolescent girls a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease, Dr. Ault argues, "young women, young girls make very good immune responses to this vaccine, so that will enhance their protection. Widespread i...Cedars-Sinai endocrine researchers to discuss gene that may be linked to polycystic ovary syndrome
...s produced by the adrenal glands of pre-adolescent girls may serve as markers of the risk of PCOS. Ricardo Azziz, M.D., chairman of Cedars-Sinais Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, will open the Androgen Excess Society meeting with a brief history of the study of androgen excess disorders. He is on...'Energy Up' demonstrates success as obesity intervention program for inner-city girls
...rgy Up" lost a significant amount of weight. Obese girls lost the most weight while normal weight girls gained what was expected for their age. The girls changed their lifestyle by eating better, exercisi...Papillomavirus vaccine could substantially reduce cervical cancer incidence
...ion of HPV vaccination campaigns in pre-adolescent girls and young adult women will reduce rates of cervical cancer worldwide." In an accompanying comment, Dr Maurie Markman, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, Texas, USA, says a number of questions remain around HPV vaccination, in...Complications of type 2 diabetes in young people -- a ticking bomb
... The unborn children of pregnant young women and girls diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are also at increased risk. A Canadian study of 51 girls aged 17 years and under all diagnosed with type 2 diabetes revealed only 35 live births were recorde...Daytrana provides significant effectiveness in both boys and girls with ADHD
...o only 4.4 percent of girls. Experts believe that girls with ADHD are underdiagnosed and, therefore, under... adverse events (>10 percent) in both boys and girls in the trial were decreased appetite, headache, insomnia, nausea and vomiting. Boys in the DAYTRANA...U of M teen sex and depression study finds most teens' mental health unaffected by nonmarital sex
...rtion of those who have sex -- specifically, young girls and both boys and girls who have sex earlier than their peers and whose relationships are uncommitted and ultimately fall ap...NIH study tracks brain development in some 500 children across US
...s in calculation ability, suggesting that boys and girls have an equal aptitude for math. Regardless of income or sex, children appeared to improve rapidly on many tasks between ages 6 and 10, with much less dramatic cognitive growth in adolescence. This result fits with previous research suggesting t...A first glimpse at healthy brain and behavioral development
... Boys performed better on perceptual analysis, and girls performed better on processing speed and motor dexterity. Girls also showed a slight advantage on verbal learning, but by adolescence, this advantage had disappeared. Income predicted IQ and academic achievement. Lower income was associated wit...Papillomavirus vaccine could reduce rate of vulval and vaginal cancers
.... The maximum effect of vaccination is expected in girls who are vaccinated in early adolescence, before exposure. The effect of vaccination in the general population of sexually experienced young women is expected to be lower initially, due to prevalent HPV infection. "This intervention could greatly re...Study shows continued success for new HPV vaccine against virus responsible for cervical cancer
...oversy has been raised about giving pre-adolescent girls a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease, Dr. Ault argues, "young women, young girls make very good immune responses to this vaccine, so that will enhance their protection." Researche...HPV infection linked to throat cancers
...ame Gardasil, can prevent genital HPV infection in girls and young women, but has not yet been shown to prevent infection in boys and men. The vaccines ability to prevent oral HPV infection and oral cancers, which are more common in men, also is not known. Although HPV detection is now added to the Pap s......the diagnosis. Each group contained 18 boys and 16 girls between the ages of four and 16. The study found autistic children were no more likely than children without autism to develop celiac disease. Anti-gliadin antibodies were found in four children with autism and two without autism. Biopsies on all s...