According to a new poll, the parents who have children aged two to five state that their children devote hours of entertainment screen time beyond recommended limit. In the latest University of Michigan Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health, a little more than half of those parents do try to set some limits by location: banning media devices from places like the bedroom or at mealtime. In 2013, the American Academy of Pediatrics ...
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Disrupted connections between different areas of brain of the children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is evident on resting state functional (MRI). The results of this research are published online in the journal iRadiology/i. The findings point to the potential of rfMRI to help provide objectively accurate, early diagnosis of a disorder that affects approximately 5 percent of children and adolescents worldwide. ADHD ...
Repeated blows to the head causes the behavioral damage according to a new study. The research - which appears online this week in the iJournal of Neurotrauma/i - shows that mice with mild, repetitive traumatic brain injury (TBI) develop many of the same behavioral problems, such as difficultly sleeping, memory problems, depression, judgment and risk-taking issues, that have been associated with the condition in humans. One of the barriers to potential ...
The need for treatment of osteoporosis for people who are younger than 65 or have been treated for a single broken bone has been underestimated by World Health Organization's tool. A WHO task force developed the Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) to help predict the likelihood of adults between the ages of 40 and 90 breaking a bone. FRAX is designed to evaluate the chances that a person will break a bone in a minor fall, which is called a fragility fracture. Such ...
Biogeographical data may be helpful in screening for disease risk and drug sensitivity associated with certain ethnic groups. A team of researchers, including an investigator from Children''s Hospital Los Angeles, has developed a tool to accurately identify the biogeography of worldwide individuals. Previous tools were accurate in identifying place of origin within homogeneous European populations but highly inaccurate for places with significant immigration, such as the U.S. ...
