Depressive symptoms in mothers are directly related to the risk of injury in their children, new research shows. Such symptoms also raise the risk of child behavior problems, although this is not a significant mediator of the association seen with child injury. Reuters Health Information
Recent findings published in the March issue of the Archives of Neurology support a maternal parent-of-origin effect in multiple sclerosis. Reuters Health Information
Longer breast-feeding lowers the risk of eczema in infants during the first 2 years of life, but the protective effect is weakened if the mother has allergies or asthma, according to findings published in the October issue of the Journal of Pediatrics. Reuters Health Information
Compared with healthy women, those with rheumatoid arthritis are deficient in vitamin B6 and have elevated levels of homocysteine, which may contribute to the increased risk of cardiovascular events seen with the disease, new research shows. Reuters Health Information
Loss of heterozygosity or allelic imbalance in stromal cells is associated with mutations of the TP53 tumor suppressor gene and with nodal metastases in sporadic, but not hereditary, breast cancer, new research shows. Reuters Health Information
Prenatal exposure to diagnostic X-rays does not increase the overall risk of childhood brain tumors, a Swedish research team reports. However, abdominal radiography may lead to a higher incidence of primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET). Reuters Health Information
