The first ever publication with data on head impacts from youth football players includes the details of over 700 head impacts measured on 7- and 8-year-old youth football players. . . . → Read More: Virginia Tech, Wake Forest University announce youth football publication, new head impact study
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This release contains summaries, links to PDFs, and contact information for papers to be published Feb. 22, 2012, in the JCI: “Unraveling why children with Down syndrome have increased leukemia risk”; “Uncovered: genetic cause of complex disease seen i… . . . → Read More: JCI online early table of contents: Feb. 22, 2012 Inflammation, cell division and cell differentiation that occur during skeletal muscle regeneration may provide an ideal environment for the highly malignant tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma to arise. These are the findings from a Nationwide Children’s Hospital… . . . → Read More: Study: Muscle regeneration may provide ideal environment for rhabdomyosarcoma Children with Down syndrome (DS) have an increased risk of developing leukemia, in particular acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Through their studies in a mouse model of DS, researchers have now identified a poten… . . . → Read More: Unraveling why children with Down syndrome have increased leukemia risk Throughout the Zamfara region in northwestern Nigeria, children are dying at an alarming rate. What exactly could be causing such an epidemic? The answer lies in the unique geology. . . . → Read More: EARTH: Gold, lead and death in Nigeria Electronic health records and embedded tools can alert and direct pediatricians so they can better manage the weight of children and teenagers, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published online in the Journal of Pediatrics. . . . → Read More: Computer-assisted tools alert pediatricians to obese patients If children in California’s CHIP program moved to Medicaid, some would benefit and others would suffer, but the balance of gain and loss is unknown. The poorest such children are most likely to benefit and will generally move to Medicaid in 2014. They … . . . → Read More: The Future of Healthy Families: Transitioning to 2014 and Beyond When first exposed to cocaine, the adolescent brain launches a strong defensive reaction designed to minimize the drug’s effects, Yale and other scientists have found. Now two new studies by a Yale team identify key genes that regulate this response an… . . . → Read More: Cocaine and the teen brain: Yale research offers insights into addiction Patterns of brain development in the first two years of life are distinct in children who are later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), according to researchers in a network funded by the National Institutes of Health. The study results s… . . . → Read More: Variation in brain development seen in infants with autism Dermatologists Urge Bill Adoption to Protect Youth from Skin Cancer BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American Academy of Dermatology Association and the Idaho Dermatology Society urge the Idaho state legislature to adopt … . . . → Read More: Idaho Considers Legislation to Prohibit Indoor Tanning for Minors |
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