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. Chronic exposure to tobacco smoke in childhood may contribute to early emphysema later in life, according to new research. Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is known to be associated with a variety of serious health problems, but it had not previously been associated with the development of emphysema over the life course. The data will be presented on Tuesday, May 19, at the 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society in San Diego. http://www.physorg.com/news161954540.html Medicine & Health Tue, 19 May 2009 12:22:57 EST news161954540 Children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy and their early childhood years may be predisposed to take up smoking as teens and young adults, compounding the physical damage they sustained from the smoke exposure. http://www.physorg.com/news161954304.html Medicine & Health Tue, 19 May 2009 12:19:10 EST news161954304 Promoting the health of young children, before five years of age, could save society up to $65 billion in future health care costs, according to an examination of childhood health conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The results are published in the May 15, 2009, issue of Academic Pediatrics. http://www.physorg.com/news161607693.html Medicine & Health Fri, 15 May 2009 12:02:01 EST news161607693 (PhysOrg.com) -- Most parents understand the importance of keeping their kids active in a time when childhood obesity is becoming a serious problem. But one University of Alberta researcher wants to go a step further and find out how sports also teach social skills. http://www.physorg.com/news161358345.html Other Sciences Tue, 12 May 2009 14:46:27 EST news161358345 As the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States continues, researchers are examining whether early parent and child behaviors contribute to the problem. A study from the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, published in the May/June 2009 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior reports that mothers who miss signs of satiety in their infants tend to overfeed them, leading to excess weight gains during the 6 month to 1 year period. http://www.physorg.com/news161229069.html Medicine & Health Mon, 11 May 2009 02:52:11 EST news161229069 Zinc supplementation can be ineffective in the treatment of diarrhea. A randomised controlled trial published in the open access journal BMC Medicine has shown that supplementation with either zinc or zinc and copper is no more effective than placebo. http://www.physorg.com/news160724065.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 May 2009 06:34:57 EST news160724065 Iron plays a large role in brain development in the womb, and new University of Rochester Medical Center research shows an iron deficiency may delay the development of auditory nervous system in preemies. This delay could affect babies ability to process sound which is critical for later language development in early childhood. http://www.physorg.com/news160674444.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 May 2009 16:47:55 EST news160674444 Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that heavier intrauterine cocaine exposure (IUCE) is associated with mild compromise on selective areas of neurocognitive development during middle childhood. The BUSM study appears in the May issue of Neurotoxicology and Teratology. http://www.physorg.com/news160401499.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 12:59:21 EST news160401499 Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found a link between a mother's height and the health of her children in a study using national data from India. http://www.physorg.com/news159552325.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:05:47 EST news159552325 Scientists have found evidence to suggest that ‘small molecule` drugs could offer the first effective chemotherapy for childhood low-grade astrocytomas, improving the prognosis for hundreds diagnosed with the disease - reveals research published today in The Journal of Pathology. http://www.physorg.com/news159113256.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:10:28 EST news159113256 Fast food and soft drinks may be making children fatter but they also make them happy. Programs aimed at tackling childhood obesity, by reducing children's consumption of unhealthy food and drink, are likely to be more effective if they also actively seek to keep children happy in other ways, according to Professor Hung-Hao Chang from National Taiwan University and Professor Rodolfo Nayga from the University of Arkansas in the US. Their findings are published in Springer's Journal of Happiness Studies. http://www.physorg.com/news158927962.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:39:42 EST news158927962 Michelle Stevens first noticed the red, blotchy patches on her toddler's feet after he started walking. Every time Noah walked outdoors in their grassy backyard, the blotches appeared. http://www.physorg.com/news158435472.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:51:29 EST news158435472 Obesity is twice as common in young American Indian/Native Alaskan children as it is in white and Asian children, according to new research offering the first nationally representative analysis of obesity prevalence among preschool-aged kids in five major racial/ethnic groups. http://www.physorg.com/news158253475.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:18:31 EST news158253475 New research funded by the Canadian Cancer Society has discovered poor educational achievement and learning difficulties for some childhood cancer survivors, especially those diagnosed with brain tumours. This first-of-its-kind study, published in the journal Cancer, raises critical questions about the long term outlook for children with cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news157815770.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:43:08 EST news157815770 Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London have published new research which indicates that women with severe mental illness are more likely to have been abused in childhood that the general population. But the same association has not been found in men. http://www.physorg.com/news157786185.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:30:11 EST news157786185 (PhysOrg.com) -- As childhood obesity continues its thirty-year advance from occasional curiosity to cultural epidemic, health care providers are struggling to find out why--and the reasons are many. Increasingly sedentary environments for both adults and children, as well as cheap and ubiquitous processed foods no doubt play a role, but researchers are finding more evidence that the first clues for childhood obesity may begin as far back as early infancy. http://www.physorg.com/news157616570.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:23:23 EST news157616570 Asian-American women who ate higher amounts of soy during childhood had a 58 percent reduced risk of breast cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news157127513.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:32:45 EST news157127513 With 17 percent of US children between ages 2 and 19 classified as obese, new research shows that parents may not be recognizing their own children's risk factors. A new study in the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners shows that parents are likely to misperceive their child's weight - especially those parents who are overweight themselves. http://www.physorg.com/news156615079.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:12:19 EST news156615079 Several bursts of exercise that last five minutes or more might be better for preventing childhood obesity than are intermittent physical activity sessions lasting four minutes or less throughout the day. http://www.physorg.com/news156525958.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:26:25 EST news156525958 Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that convulsive seizures in a form of severe epilepsy are generated, not on the brain's surface as expected, but from within the memory-forming hippocampus. The scientists hope that their findings - based on a mouse model of severe epilepsy - may someday pave the way for improved treatments of childhood epilepsy, which affects more than two percent of children worldwide. Their study will be published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) the week of March 16. http://www.physorg.com/news156443277.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:28:24 EST news156443277 Parents are mostly willing to consent to post mortem research on their children, providing they are approached by specialist nurses, experienced in bereavement and family counselling, suggests a small study published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. http://www.physorg.com/news156083991.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:40:26 EST news156083991 Children born extremely prematurely are at high risk of developing learning difficulties by the time they reach the age of 11. http://www.physorg.com/news156016378.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:54:05 EST news156016378 An international team of health researchers, writing in this week's PLoS Medicine, says that the number one research priority for reducing childhood deaths from diarrhoea is to find ways to improve the acceptability and effectiveness of oral rehydration solution (ORS). http://www.physorg.com/news155886401.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:47:54 EST news155886401 The team of Dr. Robert Koenekoop which includes Dr. Irma Lopez from the Research Institute of the MUHC at the Montreal Children's Hospital played a crucial role in the international collaboration that led to the discovery of a new gene that causes Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP), two devastating forms of childhood blindness. http://www.physorg.com/news155478534.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:29:50 EST news155478534 Researchers from Boston University found that multiple types of child maltreatment are robust risk factors for underage binge drinking based on a national multi-year study that explored the influence of social environment on the health of adolescents. http://www.physorg.com/news155314269.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:58:14 EST news155314269 Warm, cooperative co-parenting between mothers and fathers may help protect children who are at risk for some types of behavior problems, a new study suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news155309167.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:26:35 EST news155309167 (PhysOrg.com) -- McGill University and Douglas Institute scientists have discovered that childhood trauma can actually alter your DNA and shape the way your genes work. This confirms in humans earlier findings in rats, that maternal care plays a significant role in influencing the genes that control our stress response. http://www.physorg.com/news154627743.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:09:31 EST news154627743 The rate of childhood obesity has risen significantly in the United States, with many children becoming overweight at younger ages. At the same time, the number of preschoolers in center-based programs is also on the rise. Now a new study finds that, contrary to conventional wisdom, preschoolers don't move around a lot, even when they're playing outside. http://www.physorg.com/news153145363.html Medicine & Health Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:24:12 EST news153145363 When a child experiences a traumatic event, such as sexual abuse, it may not be until well into adulthood that they remember the incident. It is not known how adults are able to retrieve long-forgotten memories of abuse and there has been some controversy as to the authenticity of these reports. http://www.physorg.com/news152805559.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:59:51 EST news152805559 A study led by Dr Marcus Cooke at the University of Leicester and funded by World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) UK is looking at whether consuming caffeine during pregnancy might affect the unborn baby's risk of developing leukaemia in childhood. http://www.physorg.com/news152162670.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:24:54 EST news152162670