Aging Differences – Men versus Women

We know that women are from Venus, at least that what the book says, but where the heck did men come from? Art Gottlieb, a licensed social worker and former director of the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum has a special perspective on aging differences. His special association with men in the military is key to understanding how life experience impacts who and what we are. Where we come from, what our values are play key roles in how we see ourselves and the roles we play in society. So why wouldn’t that hold in diffences between the sexes as we go into our older years.

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Screening Tool May Help Identify Abnormal Blood Pressure in Children and Teens

A simplified pediatric blood pressure table may simplify screening for potentially abnormal blood pressures in children and adolescents.

http://cme.medscape.com/viewarticle/703958?src=cmemp

Offspring of Older Fathers May Have Subtle Neurocognitive Impairments

The offspring of older fathers show subtle impairments on tests of neurocognitive ability during infancy and childhood…”Advanced paternal age (APA) is associated with an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, as well as with dyslexia and reduced intelligence,”

http://cme.medscape.com/viewarticle/589761?src=cmemp

Offspring of Older Fathers May Have Subtle Neurocognitive Impairments

Offspring of Older Fathers May Have Subtle Neurocognitive Impairments – children measured at 8 month, 4 years and 7 years  consistently scored poorer.

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Parental Stress Increases Kids' Risk of Asthma

Parental Stress Increases Kids’ Risk of Asthma: Interesting how environment can effect health. Now study shows  that the level of stress reported by the children’s parents had a significant impact on the kids’ susceptibility to other common contributors to asthma.

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Parental Stress Increases Kids' Risk of Asthma

In their study of nearly 2,500 non-asthmatic children ages 5 to 9 who lived in the area, researchers found that the level of stress reported by the children’s parents had a significant impact on the kids’ susceptibility to other common contributors to asthma — namely exposure to pollution from traffic and secondhand smoke.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1912184,00.html