A new study shows that by the age of seven months, human infants are able to learn abstract grammar-like rules from sequences of syllables — and that they know the best place to look for such abstractions is in human speech.
An easily identifiable dermatologic condition, acanthosis nigricans, is associated with having multiple risk factors for type 2 diabetes, in patients aged 7 to 39 years, finds this study of 1,113 patients.
A study of 17 middle school students suggests that physical fitness gains made by obese children who participated in a lifestyle-focused physical education class during the school year were lost after the three-month summer break, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, a study conducted in Canada from 1994-2000, Dr. Lisa Strohschein examined the use of methylphenidate in 4,784 children initially in two-biological parent households.
A MUHC-led study identifies a gene responsible for Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), the most common cause of congenital blindness in infants and small children.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded a contract to Bavarian Nordic for the manufacture and delivery of 20 million doses of the company?s MVA based smallpox vaccine, IMVAMUNE?, for the protection of persons considered to be at risk for smallpox.
GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) announced that the European Commission approved its novel topical antibacterial ALTARGO? (retapamulin ointment,1%) for the treatment of impetigo and infected small lacerations, abrasions or sutured wounds.
Two University of Adelaide researchers have been awarded more than $3 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for research into the social, environmental and hereditary factors that impact on the health of Australian children.
A University of Melbourne longitudinal family study investigating risk factors for childhood allergic disorders and their consequences, has received $850,000 from the National Health and Medical Research Council, announced by the Commonwealth Government last week.
A study of high schools in China has found community, school and household factors have a major impact on obesity in adolescents. The new research highlights the need for more effective, preventative strategies that tackle parenting attitudes and school environments to reduce the growing rate of obesity in Chinese adolescents.