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Children Of Alcoholics Tend to Become Drug Abusers In Adulthood

...ssin, PhD of Arizona State University//, says that parental alcoholism is directly linked to illicit drug well...ychological Association (APA). The study says that parental alcoholism is an important risk factor in the increasing abuse of drugs in their adult offspring. Th...

SIDS On The Rise Among Poor Families

...drome. Although the number of infant deaths in the parental bed had decreased, it was evident that there was indeed a fourfold increase in the incidence of SIDS due to co-sleeping in a sofa. The proportion of poor families where SIDS had occurred was also found to increase from 47% to an alarming 74%. Mater...

SIDS on the rise

...s in the Avon area and the number of deaths in the parental bed had decreased. But on the other hand the deaths due to co-sleeping on the sofa had increased by fourfold. The researchers found that, the proportion of deaths due to SIDS, have increased from 47% to 74 % and deaths related to maternal smoking f...

Anthroposophical Lifestyle Reduces Risk Of Allergic Disease In Children

...noses of allergic diseases was collected through a parental questionnaire. A blood sample was also collected from children living in Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Researchers observed a lower prevalence of current symptoms and doctor's diagnosis of rhinoconjunctivitis, atopic ec...

POCKET To Protect Children’s Privac

...mation from children’s below the age of 13 without parental consent there are websites which does not follow the rule. To overcome these pitfalls, the Virginia research team has devised a user friendly, reliable and cost effective program to enable the parent to protect the child’s personal information during...

Adult Children Fail to Understand Parents Wishes

...acy with regard to adult children while predicting parental lifestyle, housing, financial, and medical preferences. This proves that deciding upon what a loved one wants is no easy matter, as is proved in the Terry Schiavo case. Carpenter started his research by studying just one child, which later expanded t...

Smoking Related Scenes in Movies Increase Teenage Susceptibility To Smoke

...ition, adolescents and teens who were under strict parental guidance regarding watching of R-rated films were less likely to start smoking than those with fewer restrictions. "This result indicates that lowering exposure by removing smoking from youth-marketed films will reduce the number of kids who start ...

Increased Monitoring By Parents May Result In Lower BMI In Children

... on this issue//. Family influences, particularly parental influences, make up one environmental component th...ssert that understanding the relationships between parental child-feeding practices and boys’ weight status will help professionals educate parents about effect...

BCG vaccine to be boosted to effectively prevent tuberculosis

...against tuberculosis significantly better than the parental BCG. Superior protection is not only induced against the laboratory strain of M. tuberculosis but also against a clinical isolate of the Beijing/W family, a strain of tuberculosis that is spreading all over the world, is drug-resistant, and is respon...

Children With Facial Anomalies Are Affected By Parental Tensions

...and toddler stages showed clinical levels of total parental stress and a parent-child dysfunctional interaction. Their toddlers showed higher levels of maladjustment than children with parents showing stress only during child infancy. Thus, elevated levels of parenting stress seen only during infancy may be s...

Safe Neighborhood Means Less TV For Preschool Children

...ne, in a national sample, the relationship between parental perception of neighborhood safety and obesity, physical activity and television viewing in preschool children. Television viewing is associated with aggression and poorer academic performance in school-aged children, and TV-viewing patterns are estab...

Children With Epilepsy Can Be Treated With Nerve Stimulation

...t socially and financially by reducing the loss of parental work time, the patient's school absences, and family stressors relating to caring for a hospitalized child. The VNS is implanted in the left side of a patient's neck and works by sending signals to the brain to decrease the electrical activity that...

Gene That Might Be Responsible For Aging

...ns and between spouses. Thus, the inheritance of a parental X chromosome (from mothers to sons and from both parents to daughters) was strongly correlated with similar telomere length between parents and children. Results also confirm telomere length is longer in women than in men. Previous studies show the...

Sharing a bed with infants may raise the risk for SIDS

... be prevented, the infant’s risk can be reduced by parental cessation of smoking during and after pregnancy, and placing the infants on their backs to sleep. From the new association seen between sharing a bed, researchers concluded that sleeping with parents can put extra stress on the infant apart from bein...

Parent’s mental state may affect the childhood asthm

...rom Columbian University has been able to link the parental mental health with the childhood atopic //disorder...othesis that links childhood atopic disorders with parental depression and panic disorders....

Colic in babies may be related to maternal depression and stress

... mother. The researchers have termed colic as the parental threshold for infant crying spells. Mothers who come from dysfunctional families with poor communications, role confusions, poor handling of emotions, and lack of interaction between the family members are often unable to cope with the scene and mate...

Autism risks linked to birth factors

...are attributing prenatal environmental factors and parental mental health to increased risk of autism// in children. Babies who were at breech position at the time of delivery, born prematurely by more than five weeks, or have a family history of schizophrenia have a greater risk of being autistic than other...

TV watching may turn your child into a bully

...ng behaviors. The results of the study show that parental guidance and nearness plays an important role in controlling aggressive behavior in children. Spending time with your children, helping them in their cognitive stimulation through telling them stories, encouraging them in some form of creative pursui...

Childhood Wheezing Could Be Hereditary

...ergy and asthma, and socioeconomic factors such as parental smoking and low social class. Results suggest inheritance is the prime cause of persistent childhood wheeze. However, exposure to adverse environmental factors early in life may be combining with genetics to produce an earlier onset of the wheezing...

The Impact of Stress Early In Life

...udy shows significant stress early in life such as parental separation can pose lifelong impacts depending on the timing of the stress// exposure. Studies in the past have shown that stressful events early in life can cause social and behavioral problems that carry on into adulthood. The new research suggest...

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