Children's health
28 Jul 2006
Gastrointestinal Fistulas
Fistulas (fistulae) are abnormal connections between two epithelial surfaces. Epithelial surfaces are present in hollow structures (such as blood vessels and organs) and comprise the…
Children's health
27 Jul 2006
How people with autism miss the big picture
“A picture is worth a thousand words” may sum up how people with autism see the world. Brains scans of people with the condition show that they place excessive reliance on the parietal cortex, which analyses images, even when interpreting sentences free of any imagery. In other people, the…
Children's health
27 Jul 2006
Chronic Conditions More Likely in Young Children in Foster Care
Children in foster care are more likely to have chronic conditions if they are young and live in a small family, not because they are poor, less educated or African American, as has been hypothesised. A University of Rochester study in this month’s Journal of Health Care for the…
Children's health
27 Jul 2006
Digital Cameras and Internet Ease the Pain of Oral Disease
Dental researchers are combining the ease of digital photography with the internet to develop a new and inexpensive way to screen for a common childhood oral disease that predominantly plagues America’s inner city toddlers-early childhood dental caries (ECC), or as it is commonly called, ‘baby bottle tooth decay’. The cavities…
Children's health
27 Jul 2006
Doctors Treating Pain from Circumcision More Seriously
One of the first things most little boys in the U.S. experience is something they’ll never remember-circumcision-but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a painful experience. The debate over whether infants feel pain has ended, and the positive conclusion is catching up with obstetrical, paediatric and family physician training programs, 97…
Cancer
27 Jul 2006
Dartmouth researchers study trends in how movies depict cigarette use
Dartmouth researchers have determined that youth-rated movies contain more images of cigarette smoking than R-rated films. A report of the findings, called “Trends in Movie Tobacco Use: 1996-2004,” was issued today by the American Legacy Foundation, which funded the research with the National Cancer Institute. “Because movie smoking is…
Cancer
26 Jul 2006
Abdominal Bloating
Abdominal bloating is felt as a feeling of fullness, tightness or distension in the abdomen. Bloating is different to abdominal swelling, where the abdomen is…
Children's health
26 Jul 2006
Anti-herpes drug reduces need for Caesarean sections in infected women
Giving an anti-viral drug to pregnant women who have a history of genital herpes significantly lowers the rate of Caesarean sections needed to protect the infant from becoming infected with the virus, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre have found. The UT Southwestern study is the first large-scale confirmation…
Children's health
26 Jul 2006
Septum Sets The Tempo Of Brain's Electrical Activity
The brain’s septum helps prevent epileptic seizures by inducing rhythmical electrical activity in the circuits of another area of the brain known as the hippocampus, according to a new study in the Journal of Neurophysiology. The researchers found that, by imposing a normal theta rhythm on chronically epileptic rats, they…
