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Growth Patterns In Childhood Could Predict Breast Cancer Later In Life

A new study finds growth patterns in childhood can help predict which women will develop breast c...I) at age 14, and having a high growth rate during childhood with greater likelihood of the disease. For the study researchers used school health records to col...

The Impact of Stress Early In Life

...lent models for understanding the impacts of early childhood stress. The infant monkeys were divided into three groups. The first group was separated from their mothers during the first week of life, before social skills develop. The second group was separated when they were 1 month old, when social skills dev...

Skin Allergies Found To Increase The Risk Of Leukemia

...kely to develop leukemia. Those who have eczema in childhood are about two-times more likely to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Based on findings of the study researchers believe the skin allergies might lead to cancer because they stimulate the immune system to increase the number of white blood cells, which...

The Risks Of Childhood Weight Gain

Weight gain in childhood could lead to an enlarged heart by early adulthood...red medical data obtained from the participants at childhood with data obtained at young adulthood. Results showed body mass index scores correlated with heart s...

The Safety Of Prenatal Ultrasounds Questioned

... a small effect on fetal growth but is followed in childhood by growth and measures of developmental outcome similar to those children who had received a single prenatal scan....

An Increase In Incidence Of Childhood Cancer

Latest research shows childhood cancer is on the rise. Worldwide, most children wi...ear evidence of an increase of cancer incidence in childhood and adolescence during the past decades, and of an acceleration of this trend. They also say that ge...

Chicken-Pox vaccine not fool proof

...n it could take a more severe form. Adults whose childhood immunity has worn off could be in trouble later age as it increases their vulnerability to the disease, say experts. ‘‘The findings do raise some pertinent questions. It is a matter of concern.’’ says Dr Anupal Sibal, senior child specialist, Indrap...

Breathing Cancer Causing Compounds During Pregnancy Found To Affect Offspring

...pounds during pregnancy // to an increased risk of childhood cancer among offspring. They also believe that nearly all childhood cancers can probably be traced back to a mother’s inhalation of noxious substances. The study compa...

Vitamin C Consumption In Pregnancy Found To Increase The Likelihood Of Asthma and Eczema in Kids

...um, copper, or zinc were not associated with early childhood eczema or asthma. However, vitamin E did appear to decrease both asthma and eczema risk. In conclusion researchers say their findings suggest that maternal dietary antioxidant intake during pregnancy may modify the risks of developing [asthma] and e...

Childhood Wheezing Could Be Hereditary

...However, some children who develop wheeze later in childhood end up with the same characteristics as those who ...ggest inheritance is the prime cause of persistent childhood wheeze. However, exposure to adverse environmental factors early in life may be combining with genet...

Drop in Worldwide Measles deaths by 40%

...hat measles had so far been an important cause of childhood deaths. It was only a decade ago that measles killed millions of children every year and affected almost 30 million more, leaving many with life-long disabilities like blindness and brain damage. “We now have the opportunity to replicate this succe...

Beware Smoking During Pregnancy Linked To New Danger

...indicative of an increased cancer risk, especially childhood cancers....

The Dangers Involved In Smoking During Pregnancy

...indicative of an increased cancer risk, especially childhood cancers....

TV watching may turn your child into a bully

...that excessive exposure to television at the early childhood age might make the child indulge in bullying behavior.// A child is considered to be a bully when he repeatedly harasses and attacks other children. Bullying can be done by actual physical attack on others or by verbal assaults, threats, extortion a...

Association of maternal and granny’s smoking on children’s asthma provd

...erus had increased considerably the risk of having childhood asthma in the first five years of life. Children o...he uterus of her mother, children’s risk of having childhood asthma also increases. However, postnatal exposure to smoke did not seem to contribute significantly...

Infections in childhood may lead to adult heart disease

Severe childhood infections may lead to early signs of adult heart ...needed to find out the exact infections that cause childhood arterial dysfunction....

Epilepsy surgery to help child development

Epileptic seizures experienced in childhood may lead to damage in the cognitive abilities of the affected //children. Researchers of Bethel Epilepsy Center, Germany, say that epilepsy surgery of these children may be successfully helping their cognitive development. Epilepsy surgery is done w...

Low doses of chemotherapy good for children

...ia (ALL). Patients suffering from for this type of childhood cancer were administered very limited dosage of chemotherapy and were monitored for a period of 12 years. The results had showed that 86.4% of the patients under the medication during study was described as event-free at the end of the ten year per...

Survivors of childhood cancer may have long-term health problems

Adult survivors of childhood cancer may have more health risks than their norma...ay that by the age of 45, 57.1% of the patients of childhood cancer reported moderate health problems, while 37% reported severe health problems. The research r...

Adult bone health is dependent on lifestyle we live

...ries have suggested that fetal genetic factors and childhood factors are responsible for //deterioration of bon... birth in 1947. All aspects of their fetal health, childhood actors that may seem to be related to adult health risks like obesity heart disease and cancer, were...

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