Sentences with phrase «affected families found»

In the recent economic downturn, many affected families found it hard to explain their change in circumstances to their young children.

We are particularly concerned about the students and their families which is why we required Rocketship PCS to work with MySchoolDC to help the affected families find alternate, quality education for this fall.»

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For example, give donations to a research foundation trying to find a cure for a disease that's affected an employee or client's family.

Here's research into how music can affect collaboration at work (short answer: it's great for it), family interactions at home, and even the workings of the human body, as well as findings that suggest you should tailor your playlist to the type of work you're hoping to accomplish while listening.

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These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

Edurelief was founded in 2006 in response to an issue that is affecting thousands of Mongolian children and their families.

To find out more about the «You and Your Child» parenting programme contact Bev Alden, Programme Manager, Children and Young People Affected by Imprisonment, Ormiston Children & Families Trust.

In December 2004 Fathers Direct and Adfam carried out a survey across 280 services that provide support for families affected by someone else's substance misuse to find out if fathers access and engage in these services.

How much technology can affect your family life, whether it is your friend or foe, and how can you help find a balance with it.

«We found that mother rejection, father rejection and the overall family climate all affect adolescents» friendship quality and loneliness,» said Mak.

A new longitudinal study has found that this behavior negatively affects not only the child who receives more negative feedback, but all the children in the family.

Following the stillbirth of her son Henry at 33 weeks gestation, Anne founded Hank's Hope Inc, a non-profit that works with families in the greater Delaware area who have been affected by pregnancy and infant loss.

Bullock said it would be harder for the affected families to find work.

Affordable housing: New York would take a $ 229.9 million cut in federal aid for Housing Choice vouchers, affecting 13,620 low - income families who find housing in the private market.

«It's hard to find someone these days who hasn't been personally touched by, or known a family member touched by, the heroin opioid crisis in some way, which is why it's clear now more than ever New York State needs to continue to do its part to support those affected as well as address these problems before they even start,» said State Sen. Tim Kennedy (D - Buffalo).

«These findings have important implications for genetic counseling of affected families.»

If they could find an affected gene in the boy's family, it might lead researchers to the causes of more common, sporadic cases of Beckwith - Wiedemann, too.

Affected family members, the group found, had inherited one or two defective copies of ZIC3, a previously unknown gene that appears to code for a transcription factor — a protein that switches other genes on or off.

Nine rare, disease - causing mutations of the gene, FBXL4, were found in nine affected children in seven families, including three siblings from the same family.

Eight additional affected children in six unrelated families were found to also have disease - causing mutations in this gene.

Contrary to public perception, the number of children in immigrant families is not the primary reason more children are living in poverty, a Rutgers study has found, raising the question of whether federal policies affecting immigrants should be significantly altered.

«Although the share of children in immigrant families did affect the child poverty rate in the analyses, the findings suggest that media coverage and public discussion on the effects of immigration on child poverty do not seem to correspond with the empirical evidence and are likely to overstate the issue.»

Concerned about how such pollution was affecting his family, Beijing - based data scientist Yann Boquillod founded AirVisual Earth, an online air pollution map that uses data from satellites and more than 8000 monitoring stations to display global air pollution in real time.

Researchers from Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that physical and sexual abuse affects 12 percent of girls and 14 percent of boys in institution - based care, and 19 percent of girls and 20 percent of boys in family - based care annually.

Kouros and Papp reported their findings in the peer - reviewed journal Family Process, in the article «Couples» Perceptions of Each Other's Daily Affect: Empathic Accuracy, Assumed Similarity, and Indirect Accuracy.»

The new family tree can also help researchers examine related groups, such as the types of plagues that currently affect only rodents (such as Microtus strains and those that have been found in Chinese marmots)-- and what genetic changes might need to occur to allow them to infect humans.

The researchers found that over 25 percent of index patients with normal results from commercial testing of BRCA1 and BRCA2, but with families severely affected by breast cancer, could be resolved by sequencing all genes known to be involved in breast cancer.

The researchers found that 18 different genes harbored cancer - predisposing mutations in those 125 families, but each affected person carried a mutation in only one gene.

To find out how such disorders affected mothers, Blacher and Baker surveyed 160 13 - year - olds and their families.

It is 16 - year - olds from not well - off families, those who find it difficult to afford ordinary things, and those who have been affected the most by the recent economic crisis, who were also most likely to suffer from poor mental health and to have self - harmed.

A University of Illinois researcher examined the results of a multi-million dollar European Union aid project in West Africa and found that a country's national governance quality can affect the livelihoods of families who rely on resources from national parks and other protected areas.

They have studied how «secondhand sugars» found in breast milk might negatively affect a baby's future body weight, how a concussion might interrupt a child's normal brain development and how teens in military families are at higher risk of depression and suicidal thoughts.

In 2002, the research team for TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk), led in the U.S. by principal investigator Dorothy Becker, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, embarked on a large - scale study of 2,159 infants with a family member affected by type 1 diabetes and with genetic risk for type 1 diabetes to find out whether delaying the exposure to complex foreign proteins such as cow's milk proteins would decrease the risk of diabetes.

Sure enough, when the researchers sequenced the gene in the Italian family, they found that the affected members had a mutation not present in unaffected members.

«Our findings are also of immediate value to affected families, who now have an explanation for why their children got cancer.

The Arizona researchers studied whether cage conditions affect mice with one copy of a gene called fibulin - 4, a member of a family of genes believed to code for proteins that stabilize the connective tissue found between cells in arteries and other blood vessels.

For instance, some of the genetic alterations found in the study occurred in families with one person severely affected by autism and others on the milder end of the spectrum, Dr. Scherer notes.

The largest study to date of testing errors reported by family physician offices in the United States found that problems occur throughout the testing process and disproportionately affect minority patients.

After studying 56 families — whenever possible including the mother, father and affected child — they found that one particular version of the marker accompanied susceptibility to ADHD.

«We want to keep healthy brains healthy and help find treatments for those affected by mental illness, which is heartbreaking for so many patients and families around the world,» says Mrs. Weill.

Our findings indicate that factors other than family and parental eating behaviors may play an important role in affecting American children's dietary intakes.»

He is also the founding chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Angioma Alliance, an organization advocating on behalf of patients and families affected by cerebral cavernous malformations.

Whole - genome sequencing of an affected individual on ABI SOLiD identified a few dozen novel missense mutations; among them lurked the causal variant, which was found to segregate with the disease in a family cohort.

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine found an association between the 240 - letter variant and ADHD in a population of families with two or more affected children.

Although mutations affecting the ARF protein were found in some melanoma families, they were rare.

Overall, 46 percent of patients had an actionable finding: a specific genetic anomaly that is the target of an approved or experimental drug; a change in diagnosis; or genetic counseling for inherited cancer risk that could affect the patient or the whole family.

The late Andrew Cutler, author of Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment56 and Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities57 noted that foods high in free thiol (which include legumes, dairy, the cabbage family and eggs) can provoke symptoms in a significant subset of mercury - affected people, in part by increasing plasma cysteine, which may rise in response to mercury and its biochemical effects.

«We and the entire It's Just Lunch family hope that our efforts, along with the efforts of those involved with ALS TDI, will help find a cure for this disease that affects so many.»

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