Sentences with phrase «childhood research at»

Lauren H. Supplee is a senior program area director for early childhood research at Child Trends.

Dr. Halle is Codirector of Early Childhood Research at Child Trends.

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In its thoroughness and even tone this carefully researched study of Woolf and her works makes a convincing case that the theme of sexual abuse appears and reappears in Woolf's work — from her earliest writing at age ten throughout her life — and that the traumas of her childhood caused lifelong depression and led to her suicide.

Jason Armfield, a senior research fellow at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, says the association is investigating the links between bottled water and the increasing rates of childhood tootresearch fellow at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, says the association is investigating the links between bottled water and the increasing rates of childhood tootResearch Centre for Population Oral Health, says the association is investigating the links between bottled water and the increasing rates of childhood tooth decay.

«The enthusiasm of everyone at Garden Fresh for the St. Jude mission inspired so many to support our fight against childhood cancer and other life - threatening diseases,» said Richard Shadyac Jr., President and CEO of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

But I will take a little peek at their food stuffs — unsurprisingly they eat a lot of ice cream — nothing to get too excited about — but in my research I discovered one of my childhood heroes was born here.

Research in human development clearly shows that the seeds of empathy, caring and compassion are present from early in life, but that to become caring, ethical people, children need adults to help them at every stage of childhood to nurture these seeds into full development.

Alan Smoufe, Professor of Child Psychology in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota writes in March / April 2011 Psychotherapy Networker, «Another important implication of attachment research is that it's possible to develop a secure state of mind as an adult, even in the face of a difficult childhood.

They are activities that have a specific learning objective, a particular content, or a selected instructional strategy,» said Faith Grinder, the early childhood lead trainer at SPARK, a research - based, public health organization dedicated to creating, implementing, and evaluating programs that promote lifelong wellness.

Here at Parenting Squad, we have been on board with childhood obesity prevention tips and research information for families.

Kay has worked as a private practice lactation consultant, a hospital lactation consultant, the lactation consultant for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, for The Center for Childhood Obesity Research at The Pennsylvania State University, and for the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

Dr Robert Boyle, lead author of the research from the Department of Medicine at Imperial, said: «This new analysis pools all existing data, and suggests introducing egg and peanut at an early age may prevent the development of egg and peanut allergy, the two most common childhood food allergies.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

«Solid food introduction from 4 months of age, including a wide range of healthy foods and potential food allergens such as eggs, peanuts, and fish, is our current best advice,» says Debbie Palmer, head of the Childhood Allergy and Immunology Research team at the University of Western Australia, who has published extensively on the topic.

The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program responds to the diverse needs of children and families in at - risk communities and is required to carry out a continuous program of research and evaluation activities in order to increase knowledge about the implementation and effectiveness of home visiting programs.

A research team led by Jane Heinig at University of California Davis has developed a program called Secrets of Baby Behavior that was designed to give new parents the information they need about infant and breastfeeding norms to reduce unnecessary formula supplementation and to help prevent childhood obesity caused by overfeeding.

She worked on the study at the Center for Childhood Deafness at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha,...

Research also reveals that children who are spanked or yelled at in their childhood have higher chances of being depressed and having behavioral issues.

«Our results suggest that breastfeeding duration is independently associated with better educational outcomes in middle childhood, especially for boys,» reported Wendy H. Oddy, associate professor at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and University of Western Australia, and colleagues.

Actually, National Breastfeeding Awareness Month is a campaign funded by the US government to encourage women to breastfeed their babies by highlighting the research showing that babies who are breastfed for at least six months are less likely to develop ear infections, diarrhea and childhood obesity.

Previous research has connected adverse childhood experiences to problems such as cancer, heart disease and mental illness in older people, but no one had looked at whether those stressful experiences are linked to health problems in adolescents.

But new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown that multiple adverse experiences in early childhood are linked to depression and physical health problems in kids as young as 9 to 15.

Now, new research suggests changes at the epigenetic level — specifically alterations in proteins that affect gene expression, rather than genetic mutations — could be driving childhood ependymomas.

Taking probiotics has health benefits but preventing childhood asthma isn't one of them, shows newly published research led by medical scientists at the University of Alberta.

Brownson, who also is director of the university's Prevention Research Center, and his co-authors set out to determine the effectiveness of three federal policies aimed at reducing childhood obesity: afterschool physical activity programs, a one - tenth - cent per ounce sugar - sweetened beverage excise tax, and a ban on fast food television advertising to children under 12.

Through projects at Duke Health, DCRI and the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to weight.

This is the first research to look specifically at in utero exposure to extreme morning sickness, or Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG), and childhood neurologic developmental outcomes, said study first author Marlena Fejzo, an associate researcher in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Soda consumers may be getting a much higher dose of the harmful sugar fructose than they have been led to believe, according to a new study by the Childhood Obesity Research Center (CORC) at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), part of Keck Medicine of USC.

Years later, while finishing a biochemistry Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and applying for a Fullbright fellowship at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Uppsala, Sweden, Beckmann realized how much her childhood loss was motivating her professional goals.

Michael Dyer, a Ph.D. biologist who studies the childhood eye cancer retinoblastoma at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, says a day with patients back in 2004 was the «single most important event» in his career.

«This study has been difficult for us, because examining the relationship between food insecurity and adverse experiences in childhood may simply add more stigma to families already stigmatized and blamed for the hardships that they face,» said Molly Knowles, a Drexel MPH graduate, research coordinator at the center, and a co-author of the study.

Young women with ADHD who have been exposed to abuse, neglect or other traumas in childhood and adolescence are at greater risk for self - injury, eating disorders and suicide than those with ADHD who were not mistreated in early youth, according to new research from UC Berkeley.

Summers and the research team, led by Dr. Mike Jensen at the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute, are opening PLAT - 04 after discovering that of the patients who relapsed in the PLAT - 02 trial, approximately 40 percent of them relapsed with a leukemia that evolved to circumvent the CAR T cells that were reprogrammed to detect and destroyresearch team, led by Dr. Mike Jensen at the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute, are opening PLAT - 04 after discovering that of the patients who relapsed in the PLAT - 02 trial, approximately 40 percent of them relapsed with a leukemia that evolved to circumvent the CAR T cells that were reprogrammed to detect and destroyResearch at Seattle Children's Research Institute, are opening PLAT - 04 after discovering that of the patients who relapsed in the PLAT - 02 trial, approximately 40 percent of them relapsed with a leukemia that evolved to circumvent the CAR T cells that were reprogrammed to detect and destroyResearch Institute, are opening PLAT - 04 after discovering that of the patients who relapsed in the PLAT - 02 trial, approximately 40 percent of them relapsed with a leukemia that evolved to circumvent the CAR T cells that were reprogrammed to detect and destroy cancer.

TEDDY's effort began in 2004 with children from six clinical centers: three in the U.S. (Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes at CU Anschutz, the Pacific Northwest Research Institute in Seattle, and Augusta University in Georgia) and three in Europe (Universities of Turku, Oulu, and Tampere in Finland, Helmholtz Zentrum München in Germany, and Lund University in Sweden).

It may be true that a child's zombielike stare at the TV set is a sign of focus, as he writes, but the positive implication inherent in this statement pales in the face of a large amount of research that links young children's excessive television viewing with attention, learning and social problems during childhood and teen years.

Lead author Zachary Crannell, a graduate student based at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative, said the disease, usually transmitted through drinking water, accounts for 20 percent of childhood diarrheal deaths in developing countries.

Published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, the research estimated that 3,418 babies suffered conditions linked to brain injury at or soon after birth in 2015, which equates to an overall incidence rate of 5.14 per 1,000 live births.

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Peter Byass, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research says «Undoubtedly child mortality is falling, and the world should be proud of this progress» but he adds»... Of the estimated six million under - 5 child deaths in 2015, only a small proportion were adequately documented at the individual level, with particularly low proportions evident in low - income and middle - income countries, where most childhood deaths occur... That six million under - 5 children continue to die every year in our 21st century world is unacceptable, but even worse is that we seem collectively unable to count, and hence be accountable for, most of those individual deaths.»

«Given the serious threat of graft - versus - host disease, new approaches to make stem cell transplants safer for patients remain a critical unmet need,» said Dr. Leslie Kean, the trial's principal investigator and associate director of the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's.

Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute (VTCRI) have revealed the pathology of cells and structures stricken by optic nerve hypoplasia, a leading cause of childhood blindness in developed nations.

Jane C. Burns, MD, professor and director of the Kawasaki Disease Research Center at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego, assembled an international team to help decipher the distinct seasonality of this devastating childhood illness.

The use of antibiotics in early childhood interferes with normal development of the intestinal microbiota, shows research conducted at the University of Helsinki.

For the study, Dr. Hodgson's research team gathered published information from dozens of studies about the risk of developing breast cancer in childhood lymphoma survivors, the accuracy of different forms of breast cancer screening, and the rates at which women agree to be screened when asked.

Researchers at the Childhood Obesity Research Center at USC are looking at how maternal food intake affects fructose levels in breast milk as well as how specific elements in breast milk can alter a baby's developing gut bacteria, which neutralizes toxic byproducts of digestion.

Exposing infants and children to higher amounts of sugar during growth and development can produce problems with cognitive development and learning as well as create lifelong risk for obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease and heart disease, said Goran, founding director of the Childhood Obesity Research Center at the Keck School of Medicine.

«What we've seen for so many years is research looking at physical activity as the preventative or the curative solution for childhood obesity, but the data on physical activity as a means to set children's weight is abysmal,» he says.

«This research highlights the potential role of individual differences in verbal abilities during childhood as a risk factor for the subsequent development of alcohol use during adolescence and young adulthood,» said Michael Windle, professor and chair of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

«We have revealed novel components and connections in the regulatory network underlying how these T cells mount an immune response,» said study co-leader Kai Tan, PhD, of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research and the Departments of Pediatrics and Biomedical and Health Informatics at CHOP.

Our neural circuits keep shifting «massively and continuously» not only during childhood but throughout our lives, says Michael Merzenich of the University of California at San Francisco, whose research has helped expose just how plastic neurons really are.

Childhood and infancy factors have been linked to a predisposition to developing Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection, the leading cause of health - care associated diarrhea, according to new research being presented at the American College of Gastroenterology's 78th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego, CA.