Psychology & Psychiatry
The emerging field of infant mental health
In the first years of life, a child's brain produces more than 1 million neural connections a second.
Oct 9, 2018
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Women's expected longevity linked to age at birth of last child
No one knows for sure how long they will live. A new study, however, suggests that leukocyte telomere length may offer some key insights into a woman's longevity and further demonstrates how maternal age at birth of last ...
Oct 7, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Mother's personality can affect child's mental health
Scientists have looked at over 8,000 parents and children in Children of the 90s and found that the children of women with personality traits associated with emotional and relationship difficulties were at greater risk of ...
Jun 6, 2017
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Health
Meat-eating extends human life expectancy worldwide
Has eating meat become unfairly demonized as bad for your health? That's the question a global, multidisciplinary team of researchers has been studying and the results are in—eating meat still offers important benefits ...
Feb 22, 2022
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Pediatrics
Study reveals how long it takes for LEGO head to pass through adult human digestive tract
A team of researchers from several medical institutions in Australia and the U.K. has discovered how long it takes for a LEGO head to pass through the digestive tract of a normal healthy adult human. In their paper published ...
Health
BMC pediatricians warn that cuts to SNAP program will harm children
(Boston)—In a commentary in this week's issue of Lancet, pediatricians from Boston Medical Center (BMC) call the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program), one of America's most cost-effective ...
Oct 3, 2013
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Addiction
Study finds that Connecticut directs more than half of identified substance-exposed infants to community supports
Utilizing a notification system that's fast becoming a nationwide model, the state of Connecticut is diverting more than half of substance-exposed infants identified at birth away from the child welfare system, instead connecting ...
Sep 12, 2022
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Vaccination
Providers report dozens of errors giving Pfizer's COVID vaccine. Experts worry new boosters will fuel more
At least 87 times in the last few months, a health care provider has given a young child the wrong dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
Sep 7, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Death from COVID-19 is often not random: Researchers say the same pattern is found around the world
At least 6 million people have died from COVID-19 to date. But who dies is often not random. The same pattern is found around the world.
Feb 15, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research shows at-risk elementary students benefit from child-centered play therapy
Elementary school students who received child-centered play therapy services over the course of a school year showed significant positive changes, according to data collected from a research study by two University of Arkansas ...
Oct 11, 2018
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