High-quality child care for poor children found to offset the risk of later depression
...ere in full-time early educational child care from infancy to age 5 report fewer symptoms of depression than ...omly assigned to early educational child care from infancy to age 5; a control group did not receive such care. All children came from low-income families with...Pediatricians and pathologists see traumatic brain injury differently
...usive head trauma. Research in the field is in its infancy compared to what we know about other pediatric conditions. We need to increase both the volume and the quality of what we know. We need to know more and we cant until we have pediatricians and pathologists, the doctors who see these children, speakin...Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute -- cancer study
...f cancer are expected to occur in children between infancy and 15 years of age by the end 2006.* "Although we're beginning our studies in colon cancer, we believe our research findings will have a direct impact on investigations for other cancers, including pediatric cancers," said Dr. Saba. "It is premature...Plastic surgery patients honored for courage, altruism
...congenital deformities that often lead to death in infancy or extremely low IQ for those who survive into their teens. Ashley surprised her family and doctors by learning to communicate through sign language by age four but was unable to speak due to a severe cleft palate. Despite doctors' concerns, Ashley's...New method shows that neocortical nerve cells are not renewed
...ace in the neocortex during the person's life from infancy to adulthood. The researchers stress that the method has certain limitations. For instance, newly formed nerve cells might remain undetected if they have made up less than one per cent of the total number of nerve cells a person has throughout his ...Infants, as early as six months, do see errors in arithmetic
... that basic changes in brain anatomy occur between infancy and adulthood. "A bigger consequence for us," he said, "is that the origin of the executive attention system must go back to infancy." Research previously had indicated that this system, which is related to decision-making and task switching, does ...World's largest osteoporosis congress opens in Toronto
...idemiology and health economics issues; pregnancy, infancy and osteoporosis. "Education of healthcare professionals is one of the primary missions of the IOF," said Rizzoli. The Honorable James Bartleman, lieutenant governor of Ontario, welcomed delegates to Toronto. Canadian Minister of Health Tony Clement,...More than just genetics: Lifestyle choices impact GI health
...o were breastfed for more than three months during infancy or had a household vegetable garden during childhood were 30 percent and 40 percent less likely to develop UC than the control group, respectively. In addition, patients residing in homes that were considered "crowded" (defined as more people than b...Length of deprivation in infants affects intellectual development for years
...rivation, recovery is possible if confined to this infancy period. For any period of deprivation in ages 6 through 42 months, the children had an IQ deficit of about 15 points. This finding suggests that the deprivation caused some type of change in the brain known as "developmental programming." This occ...UCSF study to examine whether probiotics can prevent asthma in children
...o bacteria and viruses during a critical period of infancy can lead to an imbalance in the immune system and result in diseases such as asthma, especially in high-risk groups, like children with parents who have asthma. The study seeks to determine whether stimulating the immune system by giving an active p...Infants can organise visual information at just four months
Research investigating attention in infancy has revealed that, at just four months old, babies...f we can find out about cognitive development from infancy onwards in today's Williams syndrome children, the next generation will benefit from this", she pred...Molecular imaging may lead to earlier diagnosis of childhood respiratory virus
...for RSV, and current anti-viral drugs are in their infancy in terms of efficacy, Santangelo noted. Ultimately, researchers want to conduct in vivo testing, but must first adapt their molecular beacons technology for that purpose, Santangelo said. "In the nearer term, we hope to use molecular beacons to det...ISHLT celebrates 20th anniversary of infant cardiac transplantation
...Registry shows that patients transplanted in early infancy have a significant advantage in long-term survival compared to pediatric patients transplanted at any later age. Researchers speculate improved infant survival is likely related to the immune advantage suggested by Dr. Bailey and that infants' immu...Leading international osteoporosis experts to present at world's largest osteoporosis congress
...idemiology and health economics issues; pregnancy, infancy and osteoporosis; osteoporosis in men, and stone age and space age bones what they have in common. These were selected from a record number of 720 abstracts. Through seventy-four "Meet the Expert" sessions, international osteoporosis experts will co...New research questions antibiotic use in infants
...the association between antibiotic exposure during infancy and the development of childhood asthma. In a meta-analysis, researchers reviewed seven studies (four prospective and three retrospective) that compared exposure to at least one antibiotic to no exposure in the first year of life. Of the 12,082 child...Fluoridated beverage consumption and dental fluorosis: There's a connection
...suggest that fluoride intake from beverages during infancy and early childhood can increase the risk of the child's developing fluorosis in permanent incisors. High fluoride intake from beverages could be due to either drinking too much of a beverage prepared with accepted fluoride concentrations, or normal ...Formula feeding, early introduction of infant food may not contribute to childhood obesity
...ve is not related to being breastfed or the age in infancy when other foods are introduced. In studying the association between infant feeding and fatness during early childhood, researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Cincinnati Children's Hospital were the first to use a technique cal...Breastfeeding may protect against gluten intolerance (coeliac disease)
... is also thought that some environmental factor in infancy primes the immune system to react to gluten later on. The researchers systematically reviewed research on breast feeding and the risk of gluten intolerance published between 1996 and 2004. Of the 15 studies, six matched the criteria set by the rese...New study shows link between prolonged bottle-feeding and iron deficiency
...lem is important because iron-deficiency anemia in infancy and early childhood is associated with behavioral and cognitive delays. Iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia affect 2.4 million children in the world, with almost half a million children affected in the United States alone. Dr. Brotanek points ...New Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers announced
...ages. Although some forms first become apparent in infancy or childhood, others may not appear until middle age or later....