May 26th, 2012

Survivors of childhood cancer are at greater risk for persistent hair loss and disfigurement, and for some ...
May 26th, 2012

Researchers at Dartmouth College have found that exercise can benefit memory, as well as help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Over the past few ...
May 26th, 2012

A new University of Miami study shows that one in three children who have ...
May 25th, 2012

A provocative new study suggests untreated maternal fever during pregnancy increases the chance that the ...
May 25th, 2012

A new study had found a widely used psychological intervention dramatically reduces psychological distress experienced by child victims of war and sexual ...
May 21st, 2012
Treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children can improve attention and verbal memory, according to a new study.
"OSA is known to be associated with deficits in attention, cognition, and executive function," said lead author Ann Halbower, MD, associate professor at the Children's ...
May 21st, 2012

A new study finds that the authors of teen literature often portray their more foul-mouthed characters as rich, attractive and popular.
For many adults, the ...
May 20th, 2012
Children with autism who received the hormone oxytocin via a squirt in the nose exhibited more activity in brain regions associated with the processing of social information, according to a small study conducted by researchers from Yale University.
The study involved seven children ...
May 20th, 2012
Schizophrenia is more widespread among individuals born during the winter months—especially in January, according to a new, large study. Furthermore, the month in which a baby is born greatly affects his or her eyesight and eating habits and also influences birth defects ...
May 19th, 2012
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center recently transplanted a set of human genes into a zebrafish and then used it to identify genes responsible for head size at birth. Head size in human babies is related to autism, as well as other ...