When is a child an adult?

When does childhood end? That’s the question international researchers are asking as they chart age cut-offs for paediatric services around the world. Adolescent Health Professor at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbourne Susan Sawyer says previous research has found that global health systems do not meet adolescents’ needs. “Yet pediatricians are well placed to provide age-appropriate […]

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Researchers find adult stem cell characteristics in aggressive cancers from different tissues

UCLA researchers have discovered genetic similarities between the adult stem cells responsible for maintaining and repairing epithelial tissues—which line all of the organs and cavities inside the body—and the cells that drive aggressive epithelial cancers. Their findings could bring about a better understanding of how aggressive, treatment-resistant cancers develop and progress, and could eventually lead to new drugs for a […]

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Exercise may lower mortality in adult survivors of childhood CA

(HealthDay)—For adult survivors of childhood cancer, vigorous exercise in early adulthood is associated with reduced risk of mortality, according to a study published online June 3 in JAMA Oncology. Jessica M. Scott, Ph.D., from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and colleagues conducted a multicenter cohort analysis among 15,450 adult cancer survivors diagnosed before age 21 […]

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T1DM self-management varies with adult developmental stages

(HealthDay)—Type 1 diabetes self-management behaviors vary across adult developmental stages, according to a study published online May 25 in Diabetes Care. Margaret M. McCarthy, Ph.D., from the New York University Rory College of Nursing in New York City, and Margaret Grey, Dr.P.H., R.N., from the Yale School of Nursing in Orange, Conn., examined patterns of diabetes self-management behaviors and predictors […]

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