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Stem Cells In Brain Have Potential For Sensing Damage And To Repair

... ventricular wall had largely been repaired. These adolescent mice looked quite good. The finding shows that the brain has the ability to repair itself and that it is more plastic than previously appreciated," said Dr Jan. PRI...

Haryana Enhances Nutritional Support for Women, Children

...digarh: Children, pregnant and lactating women and adolescent girls in Haryana will receive more supplementary//...f six and 300,000 pregnant and lactating women and adolescent girls would gain from the move. The minister said that women self-help groups in villages will be...

Drop That Glossy, Girl!

...ngly predict unhealthy weight-control behaviors in adolescent girls”. Efforts have been made to reduce body image issues due to media exposure. Some European fashion shows now require models to have a BMI of at least 18, and magazine editors say they include information about healthy eating and exercise in th...

HIV Awareness Hazy in 73% of Youth

...The other vulnerable lot includes street children, adolescent sex workers, orphans and migrants, who are not in a position to avail the treatment services and hence are at the doorstep of disease. In the scenario, it is important to equip youth with knowledge so that they can be masters of their own destiny. ...

Skipping Breakfast and Fast Food Consumption - Leads to Weight Gain

...e very nutritious." The authors write that since adolescent obesity is a significant predictor of overweight status in adulthood and poses a risk for adult morbidity and mortality, it is important to identify dietary behaviors early on that are associated with unhealthy weight gain in order to create effectiv...

Gambling to Be Taken as a Serious Addiction, Warns BMA

...ek. Other research showed that up to 6 per cent of adolescent fruit machine players are "pathological gamblers", which the BMA report gives it as two to three times higher than in the adult population."On this evidence, young people are clearly more vulnerable to the negative consequences of gambling than adult...

Stomach Banding Surgery Effective for Adolescents

...e FDA to study the efficacy of the gastric band in adolescent patients. To date, NYU physicians have the most experience with gastric banding procedures in adolescent patients in the United States. Lap band surgery was performed on 53 morbidly obese adolescents be...

Madhya Pradesh to Implement New Nutrition Programme for Children

...t rates, the official said. A medical check-up for adolescent girls would be conducted once in four weeks. Currently 59,324 anganwadis have been sanctioned under 367 Integrated Child Development Projects in the state. A proposal to set up an additional 9,922 anganwadis has been forwarded to the central govern...

Assessing Diet and Exercise Behaviors in Adolescents

...nd vegetable guidelines—were associated with fewer adolescent risk behaviors. Parents' number of risk behaviors was weakly but positively associated with a higher number of risk behaviors in boys. Writing in the article, Alvaro Sanchez, PhD, states, ‘These findings contribute to the body of evidence that most...

Workplace Pressures, Hazards Raise Risk of Job Injuries in Youths

... job pace increases the likelihood of injury among adolescent and young adult workers, a new systematic review suggests.// Work setting also appears to play a role in predicting the risk of injury, with food service and construction industry jobs topping the list of hazardous employment in this age group. “...

Cancer Among Young Adults is on a Raise: Report

...eing conducted by Dr. Karen Albritoon, director of adolescent and young adult oncology at Boston’s Dana Farber Cancer Institute, for determining the reasons for the raise of cancers among young people. The National Cancer institute and Lance Armstrong Foundation have reported that survival rates for cancer am...

Is Extreme Irritability - a Childhood Bipolar Disorder?

...adolescents. About 3 percent of pre-adolescent and adolescent youth are estimated to have SMD. Mood-stabilizing and antipsychotic medications are used to treat children with BD, although the data on their effectiveness are limited and several studies are underway. Since SMD was only recently defined, there are ...

Teens More Likely to Become Victims of Online Harassments

...entifying effective Internet safety messages is an adolescent health issue of great importance," the authors conclude. "Pediatricians and other child and adolescent health professionals should help parents assess their children's online behaviors globally in additi...

High BP – More Common in Sedentary Teen

...ive of hypertension in adulthood, and in addition, adolescent obesity is a predictor or obesity and cardiovascular risk factors in young adulthood and beyond." The researchers also found that higher BMI is associated with lower diastolic blood pressure, contrary to associations found previously in studies of ...

Chlamydia Vaccine a Step Closer to Reality

...owards developing a vaccine specifically targeting adolescent women. Professor Peter Timms, from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), said a team of researchers had already identified certain proteins that were able to protect against Chlamydia infection. "We've been testing these pro...

Wartime Raises Stress, BP Rates in Military Offspring

...ed major hostilities had ceased. At both points, adolescent offspring of military personnel self-reported higher levels of stress and measures of blood pressure and heart rates supported that. 'We expected stress levels would push up blood pressure and heart rates,' says Dr. Vernon Barnes, physiologist at ...

Timing of First Intercourse is Vital

... in the study. In the end it was concluded that an adolescent should be developmentally ready before attempting a physical relationship. JYT...

Busting the Exam Blues

...s, it is that time of the year for exams, when adolescent competence, along with parental senility, is put to test. Examinations have all along been associated with stress. But the modern mantra of 'make or break' has multiplied the tension several- fold, leading to suicide among youngsters who are ...

Excessive TV Viewing Linked to Poor Eating Habits in Children

...plain the amount of excess weight gain in the U.S. adolescent population over the past 10 years or so with the addition of only 150 calories a day. If this “energy gap” also applies to younger children, then each hour of daily TV or video watching could explain about 1/3 of that increase," Gillman said. This...

Severe PTSD Damages Children's Brains: Study

...them." Carrion, assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the medical school and director of Stanford's early life stress research program, and his collaborators speculate that cognitive deficits arising from stress hormones interfere with psychiatric therapy and prolong symptoms. The childr...

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