Sentences with phrase «childhood research says»

Early - childhood research says that we have a curious scientific nature from the beginning of life.

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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.

«The Walt Disney Company's entire Baby Einstein marketing regime is based on express and implied claims that their videos are educational and beneficial for early childhood development,» a letter from the lawyers said, calling those claims «false because research shows that television viewing is potentially harmful for very young children.»

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.

These infants «have less neurological development and attain a lower IQ during childhood and adulthood,» he says, adding that parents, until further research provides conclusive answers, should work closely with their pediatricians to monitor their babys» weight and make sure they don't gain too much or too little.

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.

«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.

Professor Keith Godfrey, from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, and a member of the study team, said: «The new findings provide the first direct evidence linking faltering of a baby's growth in the womb with epigenetic modifications that themselves may increase the risk of childhood obesity.

Research has shown that the cannabinoid system develops gradually during childhood, «and then it blows up in adolescence — you see increased activity of its enzymes and receptors,» McLaughlin says.

Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

Last March, Jane Costello of Duke University in Durham, N.C., resigned from the work group on childhood and adolescence, saying that she felt pushed to make changes that were not adequately backed by research.

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.

The research, says Rogers, may lead to blood tests that would allow therapists to identify which kids are likely to continue stuttering even after childhood.

«What is intriguing about this research is that childhood trauma had an effect on impulse control that was in both groups, meaning that it is independent of bipolar illness and more strongly related to adverse childhood experiences,» Marshall says.

«Despite the low infection levels of mouse cells with oHSV, we were able to cause a delay in tumor growth in one of the cancer models and even cure many of the mice in a second model,» said first author Jennifer Leddon, who conducted much of the laboratory work during a research experience in the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases.

«We hope that as the research progresses, doctors and dentists can apply the findings in caring for cleft lip or palate patients and protect their teeth starting in early childhood and into adulthood,» Cox said.

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.

«We believe this research has implications for a wide range of people, from basic scientists who are interested in how reward processing changes across the lifespan, to obesity researchers looking to devise interventions to curb childhood obesity, to parents and pediatricians trying to raise healthier and happier kids,» says Silvers.

«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.

Professor Marianne Thoresen said: «Even if we account for a lesser severity of perinatal asphyxia, our research has shown that therapeutic hypothermia reduces the number of children who develop epilepsy later in childhood.

52 % of Americans say scientists» research on childhood vaccines is influenced by the best available scientific evidence most of the time, and 55 % say such research is influenced by scientists» concern for the best interests of children's health most of the time.

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.

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.»

«Other research shows that psychiatric disorders earlier in childhood are strong predictors of marijuana use later on,» Grucza said.

Instead, most experts say Wakefield's work set back autism research and created unwarranted fear about childhood vaccinations that lingers today.

«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.

«In the past, it was thought that parents only play an important role during childhood, but this research demonstrates their importance during adolescence and even young adulthood,» says Salmela - Aro.

«Many of the diseases associated with childhood abuse typically emerge in middle and later stages of adulthood — decades after the abuse actually occurred,» said Chiang, a postdoctoral fellow with Northwestern's Foundations of Health Research Center and its Institute for Policy Research.

Additionally, he says, recent research has found high levels of unemployment and underemployment as well as poorer work productivity among adults who had childhood ADHD than among those who did not.

«In our study, we asked whether there could be a separate story for parents,» said Sabol, an expert in research, practice and policy in early childhood education.

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.

Although the study explains some of the skills that patients with OCD lack, Moritz says further research is needed to find out to what extent improving such coping skills during childhood and adolescence through cognitive behavioural therapy or similar interventions may indeed improve a sufferer's life.

«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.

Speaking about the findings, Karestan Koenen, PhD, the report's senior author and associate professor of Epidemiology, said: «This new research shows for the first time that having behavioral problems in childhood can put children on the path to ill health much earlier than we previously realized.

«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.

«The flu vaccine is unlike other recommended childhood vaccines in ways that can be confusing to parents,» says Clark, who is also with Mott's Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit (CHEAR).

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.

Although various studies propose a connection between childhood ADHD and obesity, «this is the first population - based longitudinal study to examine the association between ADHD and development of obesity using ADHD cases and controls of both sexes derived from the same birth cohort,» says lead author Seema Kumar, M.D., pediatrician and researcher at Mayo Clinic Children's Research Center.

«Recent increases in chronic diseases like childhood asthma and autism can not be due to major shifts in the human gene pool,» says physician and geneticist Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute.

«This research shows that it is possible to promote psychological well - being in middle childhood through an integrated school - based intervention programme informed by concepts of positive psychology and cognitive behavioural therapy,» said first author Dr Michael Pluess from QMUL's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, who led the research while previously based at University of East London.

Kang Lee, of the University of Toronto and also a senior co-author, said, «We know from other research that preferences for your own race develop in early childhood.

«Our research finds that a set of genetic risks identified from UK patients with a clinical diagnosis of childhood ADHD also predicted higher levels of developmental difficulties in children from a UK population cohort, the ALSPAC,» said Thapar.

«The flu vaccine is unlike other recommended childhood vaccines in ways that can be confusing to parents,» says Clark, who is also with U-M's Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit (CHEAR).

â $ œOur findings fit into an emerging theme in neuroscience research: that during childhood, there is a switch in amygdala function and connectivity with other brain regions, particularly the prefrontal cortex, â $ says Mar Sanchez, PhD, neuroscience researcher at Yerkes and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine.

These parenting issues can impair a child's ability to control his or her behavior, resulting in increased aggression in early and middle childhood, the research team said.

However, «childhood obesity has been rising dramatically, so the trends in the future are going to change by how long people have been obese,» says Olshansky, who did not participate in the current research, but projected similar obesity trends in a 2005 paper in the NEJM.

I think the role educators can play is in the parent - teacher conferences, especially in pre-school and early childhood classes, when they can say, «Hey, check out this research.

«Underfunding in the early childhood sector persists even though research has shown time and again that the education a child receives at ages two, three, and four is equally important to that which she receives at ages eight, 12 or 14,» Ms Heron said.