Daily non-political popular news in brief.
Family conditions may affect when girls experience puberty
11-15-2007 · EurekAlert!New research validates and extends the theory that the quality of parental investment affects the timing of puberty in girls. Greater support from mothers and fathers, as well as less marital conflict and parental depression were linked with later onset of puberty in children. Several other familial factors were also linked with pubertal onset. The study followed 227 preschool children through middle school and assessed parental investment though interviews with mothers and fathers.
Read more »
Keywords: family, conditions, affect, girls, experience, puberty, condition, girl
« Previous | Next »
Similar news on "Family conditions may affect when girls experience puberty":
- Geriatric health conditions have major effect on half of all seniors
08-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
While much of the medical world focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, a new study from the University of Michigan Health System finds that half of all seniors have a geriatric condition that can affect their ability to engage in activities of daily living as much as diseases can. Yet these conditions often aren't recognized or treated because they don't fall into the category of a disease.
Similar news · Read more »
- Young adolescent girls' depression is tied to more stressful life events
02-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
In the first study to examine sex differences in depression that followed adolescents over a long period of time, researchers found that girls experience more negative life events and more stressors than boys. The study followed 562 8th and 10th grade students in the Chicago area and looked at depressive symptoms, alcohol use and the occurrence of life stressors. Girls reported more depressive symptoms and peer, family and romantic stressors lives than boys.
Similar news · Read more »
- Girls will be girls longer when home life is stable
11-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
A study from the University of Arizona and the University of Wisconsin indicates that girls who come from supportive homes with stable parents are more apt to experience puberty later and avoid a host of related health problems associated with early puberty.
Similar news · Read more »
- Don't 'break the waters' during labor without good clinical reason, concludes Cochrane Review
10-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
A Cochrane Review concluded that amniotomy, also known as breaking the waters, should not be used routinely as part of standard labour management and care. It found that it doesn't affect the woman's satisfaction with her childbirth experience, and doesn't result in the child being in better condition immediately after birth.
Similar news · Read more »
- Genetic finding sheds light on diseases causing blood vessel breakdown
07-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
Twenty-one years after they first described a fatal genetic disorder in Missouri and Arkansas families, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have linked the condition to mutations in a gene known as TREX1. The identification will accelerate efforts to understand both the disorder and a broader range of more common conditions that affect small blood vessels, including diabetes.
Similar news · Read more »
- Characteristics of increased risk for compulsive gambling linked to Parkinson's disease medications
02-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Patients with Parkinson's disease who are younger when they develop the condition, have a personality trait known as novelty-seeking or whose personal or family history includes alcohol abuse may be more likely to develop pathological gambling as a side effect of medications used to treat their condition, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Similar news · Read more »
- Congestive heart failure leads to greater disability, nursing home admissions
01-07-2008 · EurekAlert!
A University of Michigan Health System study has found that congestive heart failure patients patients were much more likely to be disabled than people without the condition. They were found to be much more likely to require care from nursing homes and family members.
Similar news · Read more »
- Early Family Experience Can Reverse The Effects Of Genes, Psychologists Report
10-13-2006 · ScienceDaily
Early family experience can reverse the effect of a genetic variant linked to depression, UCLA researchers report in the current issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry.
Similar news · Read more »
- Researchers discover new gene responsible for brittle bone disease
10-19-2006 · EurekAlert!
A team of researchers has identified a new genetic mutation responsible for osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a condition that makes bones much more likely to break, according to a study published today in the journal Cell. Victims may experience just a few fractures in a lifetime or several hundred beginning before birth. The number of Americans affected is unknown, but estimates range from 20,000 to 50,000.
Similar news · Read more »
- Cows' milk allergy in infants causes considerable distress to entire family
06-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
Cows' milk allergy has considerable negative effects on the family unit, as exposed by findings from an international survey. In addition to coping with the disturbing physical effects of the condition on the child (including vomiting, diarrhea, failure to thrive and eczema), 70 percent of parents of children with CMA said that it makes them feel guilty and distressed and 82 percent said that it has caused them to lose sleep.
Similar news · Read more »
