Children's health
13 Feb 2014
Bedwetting: Introduction
Bedwetting should not be thought of as a psychological condition. Rather, it occurs because of a number of factors related to the development of the…
Children's health
13 Feb 2014
Bedwetting: Difficulty rousing from sleep
Children who wet the bed may be having difficulty waking up to use the toilet when the bladder is full.
Children's health
13 Feb 2014
Causes of Bedwetting: Overproduction of Urine
Some children may have low levels of a naturally occurring substance called vasopressin, which the brain normally produces during the night.
Children's health
13 Feb 2014
Bedwetting: Overactive or twitchy bladder
Some children have an overactive bladder and can only hold small amounts of urine. In this case the child's bladder muscles may spontaneously contract during…
Children's health
12 Feb 2014
Slowing and preventing preterm labour
A Florida State University researcher is tackling a new and inventive way to slow down and perhaps prevent preterm labour.
Children's health
11 Feb 2014
Well-Child Visits Linked to More Than 700,000 Subsequent Flu-like Illnesses
New research shows that well-child doctor appointments for annual exams and vaccinations are associated with an increased risk of flu-like illnesses in children and family…
Children's health
31 Jan 2014
Visual System Can Retain Plasticity Even After Extended Early Blindness
Deprivation of vision during critical periods of childhood development has long been thought to result in irreversible vision loss. Now, researchers from the Schepens Eye…
Children's health
30 Jan 2014
Permanent Changes In Brain Genes May Not Be So Permanent After All
In normal development, all cells turn off genes they don’t need, often by attaching a chemical methyl group to the DNA, a process called methylation.…
Children's health
19 Jan 2014
Vanderbilt study reveals senses of sight and sound separated in children with autism
Like watching a foreign movie that was badly dubbed, children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have trouble integrating simultaneous information from their eyes and their ears, according to a Vanderbilt study published today in The Journal of Neuroscience. The study, led by Mark Wallace, Ph.D., director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute,…
