Study sheds light on the developmental origins of polycystic ovarian syndrome
...hild, we need to also understand the growth of the parents and possibly the grandparents. A good predictor of one's own birth weight is the birth weight of one's mother." The study shed light on three aspects of the developmental origins of PCOS, he concluded. "There are reproductive consequences of metaboli...New food allergy research consortium focuses on peanut allergy
...conduct a two-pronged educational program to teach parents and children how to avoid food allergens, and train pediatric health care professionals to treat and prevent food allergy....Low birth weight of a baby entails risks for the baby's father
...paring registers that contained information on all parents whose children were born in Sweden between 1973 and 1980; a total of 783,814 children were born in Sweden during this period. Low birth weight was not only found to be associated with cardiovascular diseases but to increased risk of all other causes...Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies
...-at-home moms, churchgoers over non-believers, and parents over children. The public outcry led Life magazine to feature on its cover a picture of a child rejected for treatment, prompting the committee to attempt to change its criteria toward a psychological assessment. With liver transplants, patient sele...Three reasons not to believe in an autism epidemic
...consin-Madison. Drs. Gernsbacher and Goldsmith are parents of an autistic child, and Ms. Dawson is autistic. Dr. Gernsbacher is available for questions and interviews....Snoring now, hyperactive later?
...awn from the group of 866 2- to 13-year-olds whose parents were originally surveyed in the late 1990s, in the...of several community-based pediatrics clinics. The parents agreed to allow the researchers to mail them a follow-up survey four years later; 229 returned it. T...Children in chronic pain need better support, say researchers
...of vulnerability, which can have a major impact on parents and siblings. But despite the impact of chronic pa...hild's family and our studies have shown that many parents of children who suffer with chronic pain report higher than normal levels of anxiety, as well as mar...Kids with bedroom TV sets have lower standardized test scores, Stanford/Packard study shows
...work. "This study provides even more evidence that parents should either take the television out of their chi...eep less than their peers, or that the minority of parents who allow a home computer but prohibit a bedroom television may be more engaged in their child's edu...Television in the bedroom may hurt child's school performance
...se of a school year, nearly 400 students and their parents were asked to report on the types of media availab...unt of television watched per week. "Educators and parents are looking for ways to improve children's standardized test scores. This study suggests that someth...TV has negative impact on very young children's learning abilities
...some domains. This analysis further suggests that parents may appreciate and benefit from better guidance on the kinds of high-quality content that is available on television and on ways of managing the context of television viewing to maximize its potential benefit for their children."...Young children who watch less TV more likely to finish college
... advice of the American Academy of Pediatrics that parents limit their children's television viewing to one to two hours per day."...A TV in the bedroom is associated with lower standardized test scores among third grade students
...ough student surveys and telephone interviews with parents for children in six elementary schools in the fall of 1999 and the spring of 2000. Three hundred forty-eight students completed the survey. The children had an average age of 8.5 years, were ethnically diverse and evenly divided between the sexes (53...Parked cars get dangerously hot, even on cool days, Stanford study finds
..., Quinn and Null hope their work will help educate parents and caretakers about the risk associated with leaving a child or pet in a parked car. Null said a substantial number of caretakers intentionally leave children behind because they mistakenly think conditions are safe. In such cases, the caretaker som...Adult lifestyle biggest risk factor for diabetes, study finds
...limited impact on insulin resistance in adulthood, parents still have a role to play in introducing their children to eating a healthy diet and physical exercise, so they can develop good habits that will hopefully last throughout adulthood and old age." Amanda Vezey, care advisor at Diabetes UK, said, "We a...New model may better predict outcomes for children with autism and autistic spectrum disorders
...ms over time. "We can offer the hopeful message to parents that many children with ASD will improve as part of the natural course of the condition," he said. This finding reinforced impressions by Dr. Coplan and many previous researchers about clinical outcomes for children with ASD. Dr. Coplan cautions that...UF study: Child raising toughest on young grandmothers
...e, teen pregnancy, divorce, AIDS and the number of parents being imprisoned, he said. "Some historians might...search has found that black grandparents acting as parents are more likely than their white counterparts to be unemployed, live below the poverty line and have...Bedsharing, even with non-smoking parents, may increase risk of SIDS
...r old. Studies have shown that sharing a bed with parents who smoke increases the risk of SIDS. A study in ...ring among infants less than 11 weeks old, even if parents are non-smokers. David Tappin, MD, MPH and colleagues from University of Glasgow and Ecob Consulti...New study shows use of Lorenzo's oil prevents onset of pediatric neurological disorder
...orts between researchers in the medical community, parents and advocates for these patients." There is still no cure for X-ALD, and treatment options are limited to hormone therapy and bone marrow transplants. While these transplants can provide important long-term benefits to boys with X-ALD in whom brain ...Free guide helps parents address hearing loss in children
... free "Guide to Your Child's Hearing," which gives parents practical tips about how to recognize and address ... hearing problems aren't getting help is that some parents think that hearing aids will stigmatize their kids, embarrass them and cause people such as peers to......chool, their language patterns tend to model their parents even when they are acquiring new language. Where we find a real surge in the use of new features, such as the word like, is with 15- and 16-year-olds," says Tagliamonte....