News tagged with children age

Parents break rule to help young kids join Facebook

Nancy Gerstein is a savvy marketing executive who knows a lot about Facebook. She supervises corporate Facebook pages for her company's clients.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Half of Swedish three-year-olds online: study

Swedes are among the world's most connected people and are swarming to the Internet at an ever earlier age, a study published Wednesday showed, indicating that half of Swedish three-year-olds have been online.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Does reading achievement spur independent reading, or vice versa?

Reading achievement at age 10 influences how much independent reading children do at age 11. However, independent reading doesn't directly improve children's achievement in reading, at least among children at the end of elementary ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One in five preschoolers in the US demonstrates mental health issues when entering kindergarten

Social competence and behavior problems that are evident at kindergarten and first grade are known to be strong predictors of a child's academic and social functioning. However, findings reported in the July issue of the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Study finds 50 percent same-sex attracted women are with children and most want marriage

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland research has shown almost 50 percent of same-sex attracted women over the age of 34 have children in their lives and most want to marry.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Accelerated bone growth may be an indicator of hypertension in children

Children whose bones are "older" than their chronological age may be at an increased risk of hypertension, according to a study reported today in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. As a result, the in ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Impaired foetal growth increases risk of asthma

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) shows that children born with low birth weight are at a higher risk of developing asthma later in life. The study, which is published in the journal Pediatrics, is bas ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Reliability and benefit of diagnostic procedure for asthma in young children is unclear

The Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) has investigated the reliability of diagnosing bronchial asthma in children aged between 2 and 5 years, and the benefit that the test results can have for these ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers find childhood cancer risk rises with mother's age

Research from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota indicates that a baby born to an older mother may have a slightly increased risk for many of the cancers that occur during childhood.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research Raises Questions About Age Progression Photographs of Missing Children

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a child goes missing, law enforcement agencies often digitally alter old photos to show how the child might have aged. In one of the first laboratory studies to test the effectiveness of these photographs, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Children of older fathers perform less well in intelligence tests during infancy

Children of older fathers perform less well in a range of cognitive tests during infancy and early childhood, according to a study published this week in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. In contrast, the study finds ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Web site design affects how children process information

Tacoma, WA - January 14, 2009 -A new study in the journal Psychology & Marketing investigates the influence of website design on children's information processing. Results show that the type of interface used can significantly affect ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Eating habits and exercise behaviors in children can deteriorate early

As children transition from preschool-age to school-age, they may develop eating habits and leisure-time patterns that may not meet current recommendations and may contribute to childhood obesity. In a study published in ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0