Children's health
03 May 2006
Researchers study effects of weight loss in adolescents
A team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is studying how fatty liver disease affects sugar and fat metabolism in overweight adolescents and how losing weight affects the condition. In the last 30 years, the number of overweight children has doubled in the United States,…
Children's health
02 May 2006
Being targeted by stereotypes and prejudice affects self-control and academic performance
Controlling what you eat, how often you study or whether you engage in addictive or criminal behaviour might be harder if you belong to a group targeted by negative stereotypes or prejudice, according to a University of Toronto study, published in the March issue of Psychological Science, which has begun…
Cancer
02 May 2006
Technique could speed new treatments for medulloblastoma
A team led by Richard Gilbertson, MD, PhD, Developmental Neurobiology, is studying genes whose expression accurately reports the presence of gene mutations in biochemical pathways in medulloblastoma. These genes can be compared to “light bulbs” that are triggered when a specific biochemical pathway is abnormally activated in a tumor. Using…
Bone
30 Apr 2006
Opioids for Analgesia
Opioids for analgesia: Using Opioids for analgesia and information on different opioids.
Children's health
27 Apr 2006
Protecting against sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
Protecting against sexually transmitted infections (STI): Preventing STIs is much better than treating them, because when diseases are prevented people do not get sick and…
Cancer
24 Apr 2006
Parents correct on quality of life in young cancer patients
Parents can accurately determine their child’s health-related quality of life (HRQL) and this is especially true in those with cancer, according to a report in the May 15th issue of Cancer. Parental report is often used to gauge a child’s HRQL, yet the extent of agreement between parent and…
Children's health
22 Apr 2006
Control of Pain in Children (Paediatric Pain Management)
Paediatric Pain Management: Paediatric Pain Management is the Control of Pain in Children. Pain can be associated with numerous paediatric diseases and conditions and the…
Children's health
21 Apr 2006
Lowering cholesterol early in life protects against heart disease later
New research from UT Southwestern Medical Center indicates that lowering “bad” blood cholesterol earlier in life, even by a modest amount, confers substantial protection from coronary heart disease. The new findings, appearing in the March 23 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, found that people with genetic…
Children's health
21 Apr 2006
Babylab to work out what goes on in babies' minds
Psychologists at the University of Manchester have set up a “BabyLab” within the University, to try and learn more about how babies acquire knowledge. For babies the world is a complicated collection of sights, sounds and smells, and making sense of it isn’t easy. Scientists have made remarkable progress…
