Young girls with mental illness are three times more likely to become teenage parents than those without a major mental illness, according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) ...
Tags: ICES, Mental Illness, Fertility Rates, journal Pediatric
The first comprehensive, large-scale cohort study of the long-term survival of children treated for low-grade gliomas, the most common pediatric brain tumor, finds that almost 90 percent are alive 20 years later and that few die from the ...
Tags: Health&Medicine
Children of highly stressed parents have a body mass index about 2 percent higher than those whose parents are mellow, Canadian researchers say. Dr. Ketan Shankardass, a social epidemiologist with St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and ...
Tags: Stressed Parents, Heavier Kids
It's long been known slightly more boys are born because fewer survive, but British researchers have pinpointed several reasons why boys are the weaker sex. Professor Joy Lawn, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical ...
Researchers have now moved a step closer to determining new ways to improve quality of life-saving blood transfusions for preterm babies by understanding the mechanism behind the body's inflammatory response. By decreasing the likelihood ...
Tags: blood transfusions, preterm babies, body's inflammatory response, anaemic