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Treating Dental Problems Of Abused Children Need Special Care

Victims of childhood sexual abuse may face difficulty in keeping dental...n researchers, also notes that treating victims of childhood sex abuse can present unique challenges for dentists and dental office staff members. Researchers ...

New And More Effective Treatment For Cholera

...se achieved with 12-dose erythromycin treatment in childhood cholera, but is less effective in eradicating V cholerae from stool. ...

Lead exposure plus high blood pressure Leads to impaired mental ability

Exposure to lead in early childhood and adolescence may contribute to hypertension-related decline that can impair a person's cognitive abilities. // Both lead exposure and hypertension have been associated with cognitive impairments in older adults. The study indicates that the inte...

Improved parent-physician communication to prevent hospitalizations for childhood asthma

...ho have been working on ways to effectively manage childhood asthma. It has been found out from recent research that nearly half of childhood asthma hospitalizations could be prevented with something as simple as improved parent-physician com...

Gene Fusion Test to screen children’s with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemi

...tion of genes // linked to the most common form of childhood leukemia, which is called as Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). The researchers took more than 6 years to develop this genetic test. The treatment is given by chemotherapy which kills the leukemia cells and allows the bone marrow to produce non canc...

Hazards of Electromagnetic Fields for children

...s at an earlier age. Due to an association between childhood leukemia and exposure to extremely low frequency (...tion or progression of cancer during embryonic and childhood development. Ionizing radiation given at large doses is one of the few known risk factors for childh...

Conditioning preferences in children

...hed in Behaviour Research and Therapy, writes that childhood is undoubtedly a prime period for developing preferences (if only because as age increases the proportion of novel stimuli in the environment decreases) and the importance of studying developmental aspects of attitude formation has been alluded befor...

Increased Monitoring By Parents May Result In Lower BMI In Children

Excess weight in childhood is associated with many adverse health consequences. The rapid rise in childhood overweight in a stable genetic population emphasizes the importance of environmental factors on this...

MMR Vaccination not linked to Autism

...the 1971 introduction of MMR, the life-threatening childhood infections have become rare in most developed countries. Measles disappeared entirely in the United States in 1993. Concerns about the safety of MMR arose in 1998, when the British medical journal The Lancet published a study linking the injections w...

Carnitine deficiency in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes

... of microvascular complications is uncommon during childhood and adolescence; however, the principles of proper metabolic control must be imparted from the onset. Recognition of carnitine deficiency in these patients may thus have therapeutic implications. In a study published in vol 18 (5) of Journal of Diab...

Plump Infants Getting Obese Later In Life In More Cases

...years of life, are at increased risk of obesity in childhood and adulthood, a study reveals. There is an urgent need to tackle rising levels of obesity in the population. However it is not clear how early in life prevention could begin. This study examines the relation between infant size and growth and later...

A New Initiative To Fight Childhood Obesity

In a novel initiative to combat the spread of childhood obesity, The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, ...as a partner of our alliance in this fight against childhood obesity. This issue is very close to me. As a child, I was overweight and have struggled with my wei...

Mom's Stomach Bacteria Can Cause Leukaemia In Children

...known as Helicobacter pylori may raise the risk of childhood leukaemia, according to a new study.// Two-thirds... ulcers. Leukaemia accounts for 25 percent of all childhood cancers worldwide. Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) makes up 80 percent of all childhood leukaemi...

Early Growth Patterns Can Predict Heart Disease

... growth patterns established in the womb and early childhood can predict development// of heart problems at a later age. Researchers have linked a birth weight under 6.6 pounds, a body mass index (BMI) below 16 at age 2, and a BMI above 17.5 at age 11 with a significantly increased risk of heart disease in ad...

Ketoacidosis Is The Main Cause On Mortality In Childhood-Onset Type 1 Diabetes

...urnal Diabetes Care , a population-based incident childhood diabetes register, covering onset cases since 1 July 1977, was linked to the Swedish Cause of Death Register up to 31 December 2000. The official Swedish population register was used to calculate age- and sex-standardized mortality rates, excluding ...

Sleep Disturbance in Atopic Dermatitis

...ts demonstrate important sequelae of a very common childhood condition that warrant further investigation and the development of intervention strategies. ...

Bill Gates to Fund ￡28m for Malaria researc

...eck that the vaccine is safe when given with other childhood vaccines, it can be introduced into Africa's immunisation programme by around 2011. Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) Project: Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) will be receiving a grant ￡56.1m for developing new malaria drugs. The project ...

Cancer Can Recur Any Time, Experts Caution

... can be fatal, he warned. As far as the cancers in childhood were concerned, Dr Gupta said that parents need to play a vital role in ensuring that children are not affected as a result of negligence on their part. Cancer, he said, can occur at any age and does not even spare infants. Prof Richard Azizkhan, D...

Embryonic Genetic Testing Is Boosting IVF Pregnancies

...o detect birth defects or diseases that develop in childhood that reduce the length and quality of life. However in recent years researchers have identified numerous disease-causing genes, allowing doctors to pinpoint the chances of developing a disease such as breast cancer later in life. An Infertility Tre...

Intelligent children had longer live

...lts showed that people who lived longer had a high childhood IQ irrespective of income and social position. The research study was carried out by Dr Laurie Martin and Laura Kubzansky, Harvard's School of Public Health who reported their finding in the American Journal of Epidemiology. // Childhood IQ of more...

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