Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Gateshead Millennium Cohort Study found that activity levels begin to drop at a much earlier age than previously indicated
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Physical activity levels may start to tail off as young as seven, rather than during adolescence as is widely thought, say UK researchers.
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Brainy teenagers are more likely to drink alcohol and use cannabis than their less academically gifted peers but are less likely to smoke, new study results suggest.
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Exposure to a particular group of synthetic chemicals may be linked to behavioural difficulties in six year olds, say researchers in France.
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Severe deprivation and neglect in childhood can have a psychological impact on early adulthood, new study results suggest.
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Teenage e-cigarette users may be on path to becoming smokers as they are less likely to perceive smoking as a high risk behaviour, according to a US study.
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Survivors of childhood cancer who were treated for brain tumours or received high-dose neurotoxic treatments are less likely than peers to form sexual r
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Long term heavy alcohol use in adolescence alters cortical excitability and functional connectivity in the brain, say researchers from the University of Eastern Finland.
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Grapes are among foods that must be cut up to prevent risk of choking small children, researchers say
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Neonatal intensive care units have lessened brain damage due to low birth weight, researchers say
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Cognitive therapy can be an effective treatment for children and adolescents with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), new study results suggest.
Young people who drink heavily throughout their teenage years risk altering the development of the brain, say Finnish researchers.
The likelihood of dying after emergency abdominal surgery is up to seven times higher for a child in a poor country than for a child in a rich nation, new research suggests.
Dads who rapidly adjust to the novelty of parenthood make better fathers and produce children less likely to have behavioural issues in pre-teen years.
Childhood cancer adversely affects parents’ income and employment years after the child’s diagnosis, say researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet.
Trialled use of steroids to prevent childhood stroke is justified, concludes an extensive review of recent reports.
Babies whose parents feel uncomfortable in social situations are less interested in other people, new research suggests.
