Prenatal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, like bisphenol-A (BPA) and diethylstilbestrol (DES), may program a fetus for life, according to a recent animal study. Thus, adult women who were exposed prenatally to BPA or DES could be at increased risk of breast cancer, if this new study accepted for publication in Hormones & Cancer, a journal [...]

Georgetown.edu – The probiotic yogurt-like drink DanActive® reduced the rate of common illnesses such as ear infections, sinusitis, the flu and diarrhea in daycare children, say researchers who studied the drink in the largest known probiotic clinical trial to be conducted in the United States. An additional finding, however, showed no reduction in the number [...]

UCLA.edu – Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder characterized by tics like grimacing, blinking and vocalizations, is normally treated in children and teens with one of several antipsychotic medications. But such drugs usually don’t eliminate all the tics, and worse, they can often have side effects, such as sedation, weight gain and some interference with cognitive [...]

HopkinsChildrens.org – The high-fat ketogenic diet can dramatically reduce or completely eliminate debilitating seizures in most children with infantile spasms, whose seizures persist despite medication, according to a NIH-funded Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study published online April 30, 2010 in the journal Epilepsia. Infantile spasms, also called West syndrome, is a stubborn form of epilepsy [...]

JHSPH.edu – Vitamin A is critical to maternal health and child survival, yet in most developing countries Vitamin A deficiency is a leading cause of blindness and increased child mortality. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has long been a leader in vitamin A research, and scientists at the School recently discovered a [...]

UGA.edu – For centuries, ginger root has been used as a folk remedy for a variety of ailments such as colds and upset stomachs. But now, researchers at the University of Georgia have found that daily ginger consumption also reduces muscle pain and soreness caused by exercise. While ginger had been shown to exert anti-inflammatory [...]