Children's health
09 Nov 2007
China’s One-Child Policy Could Backfire on Its Elderly
China’s efforts to control population growth in the present may cause problems for the county’s senior citizens in the future. This prediction comes from a Saint Louis University School of Medicine researcher who spent a year in China studying its geriatric policies and practices. Joseph H. Flaherty, M.D., associate professor…
Children's health
09 Nov 2007
Insect Genes Provide Clues to Help Beat the Heat
New findings from insect studies at Queen’s and U of T may help to protect our brains from extremely high fevers that sometimes trigger seizures, particularly in infants and small children. While the seizures themselves are generally harmless, a prolonged fever resulting from infection or heatstroke of over 108 degrees…
Children's health
09 Nov 2007
Proteins Involved in New Neurodegenerative Syndrome Identified
The interplay of two proteins that bind to messenger RNA, a molecule that mediates translation of the information encoded in genes into proteins, triggers the appearance of fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FTAX), a late-life disorder associated with the gene that causes fragile X syndrome in children, said researchers from Baylor…
Bone
30 Oct 2007
The Connection between Genes and Height
It became clear nearly a century ago that many genes likely influence how tall a person grows, though little progress, if any, has followed in defining the myriad genes. Now an international research team brings light to this age-old question by pinpointing a genetic variant associated with human height –…
Children's health
30 Oct 2007
Research Shows New Risks from Seeing Movie Smoking
Exposure to smoking in movies is not only likely to influence adolescents to start smoking, but it also appears to be closely associated with adolescents’ risk of becoming established smokers, according to a new study by researchers at Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Established smokers are defined as…
Children's health
27 Oct 2007
Stress and comfort eating
People eat to make themselves feel better during periods of sadness, stress, unhappiness, boredom or loneliness. Comfort eating is not a problem in moderation, but under today’s increasingly stressful environment, individuals are regularly using eating to cope. This is having a negative effect on our health. According to the National…
Children's Health
27 Oct 2007
Comfort eating
Often when food is eaten, it is not just for the nutritional content or to appease hunger, but also for social or psychological reasons. Comfort…
Children's health
25 Oct 2007
Immunosuppressants in Organ Transplantation
What are immunosuppressants? What are immunosuppressants used for? Drug treatment How do immunosuppressants work? Side effects of immunosuppressants…
Men's Health
25 Oct 2007
Atypical Antipsychotics
Atypical antipsychotics are a groups of medicines used to treat psychoses in schizophrenia and dementia, acute mania and severe behavioural disorders.
