Six Apart hits its adolescence
Six Apart, the San Mateo-based start-up that is leading the blog tools market space, has all the makings of a Silicon Valley start-up legend. The two founders - husband-and-wife team of Ben and Mena Trott - were high school sweethearts. They got way into Web publishing and created Moveable Type, arguably the best and most widely used blogging platform. In 2002, they formed Six Apart; the...Suppressing A Girls Height In Adolescence Could Lead to Fertility Problems
Latest research shows that giving adolescent girls estrogen treatments to keep them from getting too tall could leads to fertility // problems later on in life . Estrogen is thought to limit height by altering long bone development. The study involved 780 women who had been assessed for estrogen therapy as girls and completed a fertility survey later in life. About half had actually been...Children Infected With HIV at Birth Do Survive into Adolescence
Children infected with HIV at birth do survive into adolescence, a study conducted in Zimbabwe// seems to indicate. Though generally it is believed that virtually all children infected with HIV at birth die before the age of five. But doctors working in sub-Saharan Africa have been noticing older children admitted in HIV clinics. Researchers from the Wellcome Trust then took...Anemia Eradication During Adolescence
Iron deficiency anemia is the commonest medical disorder in pregnancy, adversely affecting maternal and fetal health.// Despite several national programmes targeted at control and treatment of anemia during pregnancy, the success has not been as anticipated, since the majority of women present late. Poor nutritional status and anemia in pregnancy have consequences that extend over ge...Orthodontic Treatment is Better During Adolescence
Having prominent front teeth is a potentially harmful problem. If it occurs at a young age (7 to 11 years old) then the orthodontist has to decide whether to treat immediately and then again when the child is older (12 to 16 years old), or wait until the child is a teenager and perform the treatment in one phase. By analysing data from eight trials involving a total of 592 patients...