Child in Biological News

Cost-effective measures could stop child pneumonia deaths

Implementing measures to improve nutrition, indoor air pollution, immunization coverage and the management of pneumonia cases could be cost-effective and significantly reduce child mortality from pneumonia, according to a study led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researcher...

Annual Michael & Susan Dell lectureship in child health

HOUSTON (April 10, 2009) The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living at The University of Texas School of Public Health Austin Regional Campus will host the third annual Michael & Susan Dell Lectureship in Child Health at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16, at the AT&T Executive ...

In child care, relationships with caregivers key to children's stress levels

How children are affected by out-of-home care depends not only on the qualities of their teacher and the classroom, but also on the nature of the children's relationship with their caregivers. That's the finding of a new study on the level of the stress hormone cortisol in children in full-day chi...

Variety of foods -- the key for child nutrition

New research shows that most children have a diet that contains enough essential vitamins and minerals. Analysis of the Government's own survey of children's diets and nutritional status has shown that the average child gets the recommended level of most vitamins and minerals, even though they...

Early cessation of breastfeeding by HIV+ women in poor countries and child survival

July 24, 2008 A new study by researchers from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health addresses one of the most challenging issues in infant health and preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in poor countries. In these settings, HIV-infected mothers had been advised that for t...

AMBER Alert Safety Centers to Provide Child Safety Precautions at the New Jersey State Fair at the Meadowlands

ROCKAWAY, N.J., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- AMBER Alert Safety Centers, Inc. announced today that the Company will provide child safety precautions at the upcoming New Jersey State Fair, to be held at the Meadowlands Sport Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The State Fair is an 18-day event f...

National scientific meeting on child mental health at Kentucky

As the nation observes National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day on Thursday, the University of Kentucky Center for the Study of Violence Against Children (CSVAC) will host national experts at the scientific meeting "From Neuroscience to Social Practice: Translational Research on Violence Ag...

Weight gain between first and second pregnancies associated with increased odds of male second child

Boston, MA -- A slightly greater number of males than females are born worldwide every year. In recent decades, although there are still more baby boys born than girls, there has been an apparent decline in the ratio of male to female newborns in several industrialized countries, including Canada,...

Low levels of neurotransmitter serotonin may perpetuate child abuse across generations

Infant abuse may be perpetuated between generations by changes in the brain induced by early experience, research shows at the University of Chicago shows. A research team found that when baby rhesus monkeys endured high rates of maternal rejection and mild abuse in their first month of life, t...

Spray-on skin relieves emotional trauma for child burn victims

Spray-on skin is helping child burns victims cope with the trauma of scarring, according to a study by University of Queensland researchers at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane. A study has shown most children reported an improvement in the appearance of their scars and were happier when...

New Estimates For The Causes Of Child Deaths Worldwide

The most accurate estimates of the causes of child deaths to date, published in the March 26, 2005 of THE LANCET, reveal that worldwide more than 70% of the 10.6 million child deaths that occur annually are attributable to six causes: pneumonia (19%), diarrhoea (18%), malaria (8%), neonatal sepsis ...

Family planning a major environmental impact

...arbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than some of the...ountries. The average long-term carbon impact of a child born in the U.S. along with all of its descendants is more than 160 times the impact of a child born in Bangladesh. "In discussions about clima...

Research shows rates of severe childhood obesity have tripled

...n and describes those with a body mass index (BMI) that is equal to or greater than the 99th percentile for age and gender. For example, a 10-year-old child with a BMI of 24 would be considered severely obese, Skelton said, whereas in an adult, that is considered a normal BMI. An expert committee convened ...

Maternal, paternal genes' tug-of-war may last well into childhood

...Biology in Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Human mothers are also unusual among primates in that they often care for more than one child at a time. Evidence from disorders of genomic imprinting suggests that maternal and paternal genes may skirmish over the pace of human development." ...

Researchers team up to provide new hope for childhood hunger

...on to malnutrition," said Roger N. Beachy, president, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. "Mark Manary is an internationally recognized leader in child nutrition research. He has pioneered several approaches to enhancing the nutrition of the world's most severely malnourished children. The new Global...

UTMB study identifies women at risk of gaining excessive weight with injectable birth control

... DMPA users gain significant weight not seen among women using oral or nonhormonal contraception. The study was supported by the National Institute of child Health and Human Development. Yen-Chi L. Le, of UTMB's department of obstetrics and gynecology, and Mahbubur Rahman, of UTMB's Center for Interdiscipl...

Early-life experience linked to chronic diseases later in life: UBC research

...s Kobor, an assistant professor in the UBC Department of Medical Genetics and a scientist at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics at the child & Family Research Institute. This pattern of responses might contribute to the higher rates of infectious, respiratory, and cardiovascular diseases...

Hush little baby... Linking genes, brain and behavior in children

...perament. The authors note that the "results suggest that it is possible that the DRD4 long allele plays different roles (for better and for worse) in child temperament" depending on internal conditions (the environment inside their bodies) and conclude that the pattern of brain activity (that is, greater ...

1-finger exercise reveals unexpected limits to dexterity

...is affected by physiological "force-velocity" properties that weaken muscles as they move faster. "That is why your bicycle has gears, and why as a child you could not speed up much on level ground," he explains. Valero-Cuevas and his collaborators set up a simple experiment to characterize how finge...

Women with endometriosis need special care during pregnancy to avoid risk of premature birth

...rence of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology heard today (Wednesday July 1). Dr. Henrik Falconer, of the Department of Woman and child Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, said that his team had found that women with endometriosis also had a higher risk of other pregnancy ...

Single thawed embryo transfer after PGD does not affect pregnancy rates

...y good clinical judgment and using the appropriate techniques. "For patients, this provides reassurance that a couple's chance of having a healthy child is not reduced by replacing only one blastocyst and freezing the surplus ones. Those frozen blastocysts do have a very good chance of leading to a hea...

Debate on admin. of magnesium sulfate to pregnant women to prevent cerebral palsy in pre-term infants

... on the debate. Investigators from the Perinatology Research Branch (Division of Intramural Research), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of child Health and Human Development, of the NIH, Bethesda, and Detroit, and the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, ...

DNA template could explain evolutionary shifts

...the disorder, of two children with a neuropathy suggests that the mechanism might be considered in genetic counseling about the risk of having another child with the disorder. The scientists wrote, "We propose that FoSTeS/MMBIR may be a key mechanism for generating structural variation, particularly no...

Nutricia launches Nutra Neocate, weaning product designed for cows’ milk protein allergy

... Nutricia. "Neocate Nutra has been developed as a direct result of feedback from parents.5 Parents of children with food allergies can now wean their child with Neocate Nutra without fear of exposure to hidden allergens that can cause an allergic reaction." ...

Pre-pregnancy depressed mood may heighten risk for premature birth

...r preterm birth rate among blacks may be the result of declining health over time among black women. For this study, premature birth referred to any child born after less than 37 weeks of gestation. Normal gestation ranges from 38 to 42 weeks. Data for the study was drawn from a larger longitudinal inv...

Tulane receives grant to study limb regeneration

...th factor, to initiate and/or sustain the regenerative response. While the salamander is the only animal capable of regenerating lost appendages, a child can grow back the tip of a severed finger, and, even in adults, bone, muscle, cartilage and skin can independently undergo a healing and regeneration ...

Women faring well in hiring process for science faculty jobs at research universities

...een female graduates and the pool of female applicants is very real, and suggests that focus next be placed on examining challenges such as family and child responsibilities, which typically impact women more than men." ...

Preventing ear infections in the future: Delivering vaccine through the skin

...anisms is of concern. Surgery to insert tubes through the tympanic membrane relieves painful symptoms, but the procedure is invasive and requires the child to be under general anesthesia. Thus, it is necessary to develop different ways to treat or preferably prevent this disease. "We have designed seve...

Can happiness be inherited?

...he way that specific genes are expressed in the germ cells, and hence how a child develops. In his article in the latest issue of Bioscience Hypotheses ,... course, that parental behavior affects children, and that the genes that a child gets from its parents help shape that child's character." said Dr. Halabe B...

American College of Medical Genetics affirms importance of newborn screening dried blood spots

...out the use of the residual dried blood spots as well as to reinforce the value of the residual spots for their use in improving newborn screening and child health." The Position Statement affirms: Residual newborn screening dried blood filter spots are a valuable national resource that can contribute...

Does mom know when enough is enough?

... St. Louis, MO, May 11, 2009 As the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States continues, researchers are examining whether early parent and child behaviors contribute to the problem. A study from the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, published in the May/June 2009 issue of ...

Late motherhood boosts family lifespan

...year after age 50 than women who did not deliver a child after age 40. That confirmed earlier studies. But ...red with younger mothers, women who had their last child between ages 42 and 44 were 6 percent less likely ...ven year past age 50, and women who had their last child at age 44 or older were 17 percent less likely to...

First neuroimaging study examining motor execution in children with autism reveals new insights

...onding to a stimulus and learning the appropriate response. In this way, studying motor skills provides important information about how the brain of a child with autism learns differently, and how autism affects the basic neural systems important for acquiring all skills, from tapping your toes in rhythm t...

Tufted bacteria cause infection in premature babies

...feration. "We wanted to conduct this research not only to learn more about the pathogenic potential of the bacteria, but also to understand how the child can protect itself from attack by, for instance, enhancing the body's own defences," says Giovanna Marchini, associate professor at Karolinska Institu...

Sugar, spice and puppy dog tails: Developing sex-typed personality traits and interests

... at The Pennsylvania State University, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Purdue University, appears in the March/April 2009 issue of the journal child Development . The researchers looked at first- and second-born siblings from nearly 200 mostly White, middle-class American families. They collecte...

Vitamin D levels linked to asthma severity

...nd colleagues recruited 616 children with asthma living in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, a country known to have a high prevalence of asthma. Each child was assessed for allergic markers, including both allergen-specific and general sensitivity tests, and assessed for lung function and circulating vita...

New hope for advances in treating malaria

...million people across the globe each year, with forty per cent of the world's population at risk of contracting the disease. WHO also estimates that a child dies from malaria every 30 seconds. Dr McConkey says: "Our chemicals are particularly exciting as they kill malaria parasites at low concentrations,...

truTV and Cox Offer Free Digital Fingerprinting to Help Prevent Crimes Against Children

... of network marketing and operations, TNS. "Cox is proud to bring this child safety program to Hampton Roads. Children are very vulnerable and it is imp...printed thousands of children since the program's initiation in 2002. Each child receives an 8 x 10 printout with photo, fingerprints, and personal informat...

Prenatal meth exposure linked to abnormal brain development

...hool of Medicine, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa in Honolulu. "But until now, the effects of prenatal meth exposure on the developing brain of a child were little known." For the study, brain scans were performed on 29 three- and four-year-old children whose mothers used meth while pregnant and 37...

truTV and Cox Offer Free Digital Fingerprinting to Help Prevent Crimes Against Children

... of network marketing and operations, TNS. "Cox is proud to bring this child safety program to Hampton Roads. Children are very vulnerable and it is imp...printed thousands of children since the program's initiation in 2002. Each child receives an 8 x 10 printout with photo, fingerprints, and personal informat...