"Over the last 10 years, researchers have also found that depression is associated with high levels of inflammation and free radical damage," he says. "When the body is inflamed, there is an imbalance in the levels of serotonin – a...
Once San Francisco pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris learned about the ACE Study and the neurobiological effects of toxic stress on children, she had a dream to create a pediatric practice that could serve the whole child and that child's family. The...
"The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) , led by Trinity College Dublin, recently presented key findings to the EU Parliament. TILDA is a large-scale, nationally representative study of people aged 50 and over in Ireland. By exploring the...
"The following discussion will offer a rationale to all clinicians—or other professionals who come into contact with children and their families—for including questions about animals in the family as a routine part of assessing the health...
"Today on Radioactivity, Rob Lorei speaks with Robin Saenger founding director of Peace4Tarpon and Denise Hughes-Conlon, chairwoman of the Pinellas County Domestic Violence Task Force about domestic violence and a training session that addresses this...
Abstract BACKGROUND: Although several systematic reviews have concluded that home visiting has strong evidence of effectiveness, individual evaluations have produced inconsistent results. We used a component-based, domain-specific approach to...
Abstract BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, which provides $1.5 billion to states over 5 years for home visiting program models serving...
Abstract On March 23, 2010, the President signed into law the Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), which included an amendment of Title V of the Social Security Act authorizing the creation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home...
Abstract BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The Building Healthy Children (BHC) collaborative has successfully integrated home visitation into medical care of infants born to young, low-income mothers. Patients receive parenting education, and therapy for...
Abstract OBJECTIVE: To test, with a sample of adolescent mothers (16-20 at childbirth) and their first-born infants/toddlers (average age 1 year), whether the impact of a home visiting (HV) child maltreatment prevention program was moderated by...
"All children in our care and custody healthy, safe, smart and strong… It is a vision that both is eloquent in its simplicity and enormously complex to achieve. It is, however, achievable over time. Not by the Connecticut Department of Children...
Abstract Background Civilian populations now comprise the majority of casualties in modern warfare, but effects of war exposure on alcohol disorders in the general population are largely unexplored. Accumulating literature indicates that adverse...
"Cultivating relationships may be one of the key solutions in addressing substance abuse in pregnant women, explained Ira Chasnoff, president of Children's Research Triangle in Chicago. Chasnoff, who is a researcher in child development and effects of...
"The Department of Veterans Affairs is approving claims for post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from military sexual assault or harassment at rates that are "significantly lower" than those for PTSD from combat and other...