Trent Consultants News Possible link studied between childhood abuse and early cellular aging

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Trent Consultants News Possible link studied between childhood abuse and early cellular aging Trent Consultants News Children who suffer physical or emotional abuse may be faced with accelerated cellular aging as adults, according to new research from Butler Hospital and Brown University. Trent Consultants News: The findings, which are published online in the journal Biological Psychiatry, draw a direct connection between childhood psychological trauma and accelerated reduction in the size of ...
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Sep 05 2010


Trent Consultants News Parent training complements medication for treating behavioral problems in children with PDD

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Trent Consultants News Treatment that includes medication plus a structured training program for parents reduces serious behavioral problems in children with autism and related conditions, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study, which was part of the NIMH Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism Network, was published in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Trent ...
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Sep 03 2010


Hair Loss News Tells You What Products are Better Suited to Prevent the Problem

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Have you heard the hair loss news lately? The latest is all about what natural products can do to help prevent you from losing your hair.The research has gone on for a few years now. Finding that natural ingredients are more effective at preventing hair loss is beginning to lead to new products.There are many natural products that have been around since native Americans used herbs to treat many ailments. Learning from them may be a beneficial aspect we can use to re-grow hair.One of the natural ...
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Sep 02 2010


Hair Loss News: Getting the Right Information at the Right Time

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When you notice that your hair is thinning and there is evident patchiness in your scalp, it is best to be updated with hair loss news. Although this is not very appealing to a number of the populace, this is however, the perfect means to which people with hair problems can get access to the latest buzz about the condition they have. Baldness or simply thinning of the hair is not at all exclusive to the male gender as this condition is also evident in women. The degree of obviousness might not ...
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Aug 31 2010


Trent Consultants News Babies Spot Human Speech at 5 Months

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Trent Consultants News Children as young as 5 months old are able to tell the difference between human speech and monkey calls, a new study has found. Trent Consultants News Researchers showed 5-month-old infants from English- and French-speaking homes pictures of human faces and rhesus monkey faces paired with either human speech or monkey calls. The infants looked longer at pictures of human faces when human speech was presented and longer at monkey faces when monkey calls were played. ...
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Aug 25 2010


Trent Consultants News Half of U.S. Kids Assaulted Each Year: Study

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Trent Consultants News More than 60 percent of youngsters had either direct or indirect exposure to violence within the past year, according to a U.S. government survey that looked at past-year and lifetime exposure to violence among children aged 17 and younger. Trent Consultants News: The survey also found that: Nearly half the children surveyed were assaulted at least once in the past year, and more than one in 10 were injured as a result. Nearly one-quarter of the children were the victim ...
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Aug 23 2010


Trent Consultants News TV May Increase Aggression in Toddlers

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Trent Consultants News This research, published in the November issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, found that direct TV watching by young children or exposure to indirect viewing in the household were both associated with increased aggression in small children. After controlling the data for other factors, such as maternal depression, living in an unsafe neighborhood and being spanked, "for every hour that a child watched TV directly, aggression went up 0.16 on a ...
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Aug 21 2010


Health: Terra med Alliance News FDA Approved Leukemia Drugs Shows Promise In Ovarian Cancer Cells

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Terra med Alliance News: The drug Sprycel, approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, significantly inhibited the growth and invasiveness of ovarian cancer cells and also promoted their death, a study by researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found. Terra med Alliance News: The drug, when paired with a chemotherapy regimen, was even more effective in fighting ovarian cancer in cell lines in which signaling of the ...
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Aug 20 2010


Health: Terra med Alliance News Two Genes Cooperate To Cause Aggressive Leukemia

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Terra med Alliance News: Two genes, each one of which is known to cause cancer on its own, together can lead to aggressive leukemia. This is the conclusion from new research carried out on gene-modified mice at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The discovery has surprised scientists, and may lead to new treatments. Terra med Alliance News: The two genes are often present in mutated form in acute leukemias, but the mutations rarely occur together. Scientists have ...
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Aug 14 2010


Reuters Health: Terra med Alliance News Green Tea Ingredient May Fight Incurable Leukemia

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Terra med Alliance News: A chemical found in green tea may shrink lymph nodes and reduce white blood cell counts in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows. Terra med Alliance News: There is no cure for CLL, and about half of patients with the disease have an aggressive, fatal form, Dr. Tait D. Shanafelt of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and colleagues explain in the report. At present, there is no therapy available that ...
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Aug 13 2010