Children’s urinary difficulties not related to choice of toilet training method
Parents: stop worrying about which toilet training method to use - where urinary accidents in children are concerned, it doesn’t matter. This clearly-stated message, published November 1 in Clinical Pediatricsby physician researchers from the...
Male fertility can be restored after cancer treatment
An injection of banked sperm-producing stem cells can restore fertility to male primates who become sterile due to cancer drug side effects, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and...
Overweight and smoking during pregnancy boost risk of overweight kids
Mums who carry too much weight and/or who smoke during pregnancy increase the risk of having overweight kids, indicates a systematic analysis of the available evidence published online in the Archives of Disease in...
Teens with cardiovascular risk factors face accelerated arterial aging by their early ‘20s
A new study to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association demonstrates that teenagers must control cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence or face “accelerated arterial aging” by their early ‘20s.
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Women whose first pregnancy was ectopic have fewer children and a high risk of...
Women whose first pregnancy is ectopic are likely to have fewer children in the following 20-30 years than women whose first pregnancy ends in a delivery, miscarriage or abortion, according to results from a...
Does true love wait? Age of first sexual experience predicts romantic outcomes in adulthood
It’s a common lament among parents: Kids are growing up too fast these days. Parents worry about their kids getting involved in all kinds of risky behavior, but they worry especially about their kids’...
New study finds majority of pregnant women require an average of two months additional...
Three quarters of pregnant women take sick leave from work but employers can help reduce this through flexible work adjustments, suggests a new study published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and...
Obese teen boys have up to 50 percent less testosterone than lean boys
A study by the University at Buffalo shows for the first time that obese males ages 14 to 20 have up to 50 percent less total testosterone than do normal males of the same...
Research finds emotions fall on tone-deaf ears
A new study has revealed that those with congenital amusia (commonly refereed to as tone-deafness) have trouble decoding emotions in speech and find it hard to pick up on emotional cues in conversation.
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Smoking and hyperactivity (ADHD) share common genetic risk factor
A variation of a particular gene may link the behaviours typical of childhood attention hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD for short, and those associated with smoking, suggests research published online in the Archives of Disease...
