earlylife

MONDAY, May 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Early life physical and sexual abuse is associated with a greater risk for adult premature mortality, according to a study published online May 3 in The BMJ.Yi-Xin Wang, from the Harvard T.H. Chan…

A new brain connection discovered by University of California, Irvine researchers can explain how early-life stress and adversity trigger disrupted operation of the brain's reward circuit, offering a new therapeutic target for treating…

Lori Solomon MONDAY, Feb. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Early-life adversity has lasting effects on mental health and cognitive abilities later in childhood, according to a study published online Feb. 8…

Photovoltaic modules for long-term evaluation installed at Sandia’s Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory in Albuquerque. Credit: Craig Fritz…

Every year, almost 7 million potentially serious bacterial infections are estimated to occur in newborns, resulting in more than 550,000 annual neonatal deaths. Most of these infections and deaths happen in LMICs, where often scarce…

Rates of childhood obesity are at historically high levels in the U.S., yet there are few interventions that promote healthy weight gain in children from infancy to age two -- a critical period for the development and prevention of…