LEBANON, NH – A clinical study of anti-HIV/AIDS medicines in the developing world is on the verge of turning “the whole treatment world on its head,” according to Dartmouth pediatrician Paul Palumbo.
Palumbo, a professor of pediatric medicine at D…
Today was the last day of the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, a key HIV/AIDS research meeting being held at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston from February 27 through March 2. Highlighted below are selected pres…
Childhood obesity in the United States has more than tripled in the past three decades, and prior research has linked maternal employment to children’s body mass index (BMI), a measure of their weight-for-height. A new study in the January/February …
Decades of research have demonstrated the importance of the resources in children’s homes and the benefits of high-quality interactions with parents in supporting healthy development. High-quality child care plays a similar, albeit less powerful, ro…
Washington, DC, January 19, 2011 — Both boys and girls who are victims of bullying, including bullying through e-mail and the internet, are at elevated risk for depression. However, according to a new study, adolescent girls may engage in sub…
Doing well in school and feeling accepted by your peers are both important challenges during adolescence. Sometimes these don’t fit well together, as when teens are ostracized for being smart. A new study has found that such pressures differ for tee…