Day: January 12, 2011

The National Children’s Study is the largest, long-term study of children’s health ever conducted in the United States. It will follow 100,000 children from pre-birth to 21-years-old. The study will enroll women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant…

In 2006, a team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, schools of Public Health and Medicine and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center found that breast cancer in younger African American women is more likely to be the…

For the first time in history, the next generation will not live longer, or even as long, as their parents. “Diseases such as Type II diabetes, high blood pressure, heart conditions and joint deterioration – what were once considered ‘adult’…