Brothers and sisters learn to build positive relationships
Little is known about how sibling relationships impact child and family functioning, but Penn State researchers are beginning to shed light on intervention strategies that can cultivate healthy and supportive sibling relationships.
Parents frequently rank...
Oven-baked fish fingers have fewer furans than when fried
Worries concerning the presence of furans in food have risen in recent years due to their toxic and carcinogenic effects, as observed in animals. In fact the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part...
Digging into the contested peanut-allergy epidemic
The path of the peanut from a snack staple to the object of bans at schools, day care centers and beyond offers important insights into how and why a rare, life-threatening food allergy can...
Breastfeeding could prevent ADHD
We know that breastfeeding has a positive impact on child development and health — including protection against illness. Now researchers from Tel Aviv University have shown that breastfeeding could also help protect against Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder...
Relationship between magnesium, bone mineral content
Although the importance of magnesium for bone health is known, little is known about magnesium absorption and its relationship to bone mineral content and density both factors that relate to bone strength. In a...
Over 70% of children who drowned could not swim and were not using flotation...
Drowning is the second most common global cause of deaths due to unintentional injuries in children from one to fourteen years old. As such, a team of professionals from Hospital Sant Joan de Déu...
Parental divorce in childhood linked to raised inflammation in adulthood
People who experience parental divorce during childhood have higher levels of an inflammatory marker in the blood which is known to predict future health, according to new research from UCL.
The study, published in Psychoneuroendocrinology, found...
Infant vaccine for pneumonia helps protect elderly
Children who receive a vaccine to prevent blood and ear infections may be reducing the spread of pneumonia to the rest of the population, especially their grandparents and other older adults.
Results of a new...
“Kangaroo Care” found to offer developmental benefits for premature newborns
New research in the Journal of Newborns & Infant Nursing Reviews concludes that so-called “kangaroo care” (KC), the skin-to-skin and chest-to-chest touching between baby and mother, offers developmentally appropriate therapy for hospitalized preterm infants.
In...
"Kangaroo Care" found to offer developmental benefits for premature newborns
New research in the Journal of Newborns & Infant Nursing Reviews concludes that so-called “kangaroo care” (KC), the skin-to-skin and chest-to-chest touching between baby and mother, offers developmentally appropriate therapy for hospitalized preterm infants.
In...
