http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Our surnames and genetic information are often strongly connected, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust. The research, published this week in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, may help genealogists create more accurate family trees even when records are missing. It also suggests that the often quoted "one in ten" figure for children born through infidelity is unlikely to be true. http://www.physorg.com/news153574546.html Biology Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:37:41 EST news153574546 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research from ALSPAC (Children of the 90s) indicates that children born in late summer and early autumn are slightly taller and have wider bones than those born in winter and spring. http://www.physorg.com/news152895490.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:58:46 EST news152895490 A study by researchers at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute has found that the seven- to eight-fold increase in the number children born in California with autism since 1990 cannot be explained by either changes in how the condition is diagnosed or counted - and the trend shows no sign of abating. http://www.physorg.com/news150636855.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:34:15 EST news150636855 A study in the Dec. 1 issue of the journal Sleep is the first to show that high levels of prenatal smoking exposure strongly modify sleep patterns in preterm neonates, which places infants at a higher risk for developmental difficulties that could persist throughout early and middle childhood. http://www.physorg.com/news147355327.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:02:07 EST news147355327 Tufts researchers and colleagues report that place of birth plays a role in the occurrence of asthma in a United States black population. The researchers found that within one inner-city population, blacks born in the United States were more likely to have asthma than blacks who were born outside of the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news147354818.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:53:38 EST news147354818 A new national screening strategy in Denmark has halved the number of infants born with Down's syndrome and increased the number of infants diagnosed before birth by 30%, according to a study published on bmj.com today. http://www.physorg.com/news147081337.html Medicine & Health Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:55:37 EST news147081337 Children born prematurely are four times more likely to have emotional problems or behavioural disorders, according to research led by the University of Warwick. http://www.physorg.com/news140086711.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:58:31 EST news140086711 If there's one thing that everyone knows about newborn babies, it's that they don't sleep through the night, and neither do their parents. But in fact, those first six months of life are crucial to developing the regular sleeping and waking patterns, known as circadian rhythms, that a child will need for a healthy future. http://www.physorg.com/news139574600.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:43:20 EST news139574600 People who suffer from cardiovascular diseases at advanced ages may have reason to suspect that the cause of their illness lies far away... around the date of their birth. A team of European researchers reports that if economic conditions at the time of birth were bad, then this leads to a higher risk of cardiovascular mortality much later in life. http://www.physorg.com/news137670019.html Medicine & Health Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:40:19 EST news137670019 The nation's fourth and eighth graders scored higher in reading and mathematics than they did during their last national assessment, according to the federal government's latest annual statistical report on the well-being of the nation's children. Not all the report's findings were positive; there also were increases in the adolescent birth rate and the proportion of infants born at low birthweight. http://www.physorg.com/news134994720.html Other Sciences Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:32:00 EST news134994720 Barcelona, Spain: Children born after a frozen, thawed embryo has been replaced in the womb have higher birth weight than those born where fresh embryos were used, Danish scientists reported to the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today. http://www.physorg.com/news134718931.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:55:31 EST news134718931