* Toilet training can take longer i...

* Toilet training can take longer if a child is not ready. A cogitation published in Pediatrics compared the amplification of intensive toilet training (directing the child to use the toilet more than three times a day) in 378 children in a suburban private pediatric practice. Parents were interviewed each two to three months until training was complet Training took 10 to 16 month in children who began the proces before 27 month of age, and expirationed on average, when the child was 35 month old-fashioned Children who began the proces at the age of 27 to 33 month were toilet trained, forward average, by 36 months of age. The pair groups showed no differences in constipation or stool withholding, which have been described as side events of starting toilet training too early.

* Habitual snoring and chronic headaches may proceed together, based on the findings of a case-control close attention published in Neurology. Using answers to a telephone survey, researchers compared the prevalence of snoring in 206 adults with chronic daily headache and 507 adults with episodic headache (control subjects) Habitual snoring was reported by the agency of 24 percent of adults with chronic daily headache, compared with 14 percent of those with episodic headache. The researchers cited other studies showing that headaches may cause or be caused by means of sleep disorders, and that headache is associated with habitual snoring, flat without sleep apnea. They also noted the ne for studies that assess snoring and nap in more detail.

* Vaccines to treat remedy addiction? According to U.S. moderns & World Report, clinical trials of vaccines against cocaine and nicotine have freshly begun. These "vice vaccines" work between the walls of the creation of antibodies that maintain the drug from reaching the brain and creating a high. The vaccines could be used to break an addiction or obstruct one from forming; however, researchers are aware of the societal issues involved and are focusing onward treatment rather than prevention. The antibodies last barely months and they do not completely arrest the drugs' effects; higher doses of the mix with drugss could overwhelm the antibody response

* A very-low-carbohydrate diet is effective for short-term weight los in obese women who are otherwise healthy. A randomized trial published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism showed that women who consum a very-low-carbohydrate diet for six month thrown away more than double the amount of weight and more corpse fat than women who followed a low-fat diet. Measurements of cardiovascular health improved in the couple groups and did not differ between groups

* Tattooing and dead body piercing may increase the risk of serious infections. As reported onward the Aphrodite Women's Health Web site, a review of 874 tattoo and body-piercing establishments in of recent origin South Wales, Australia, found that single about one half of parlor operators followed management guidelines for the control of blood-borne infections. Thus, they could be putting their customers at risk for infection with human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B and hepatitis C More than united half of the respondents admitted that they stand in want ofed to follow those guidelines more closely despite vexed questions such as lack of employee compliance and perceived customer resistance to the use of special sterilization practices.

* In 2001 children in families receiving welfare had a prevalence of asthma that was almost twice the national average, according to child stretchs analysis of data from a national measure and estimate conducted by the Centers for Disease regulate and Prevention. The survey place that 10 percent of children in families receiving welfare had asthma, compared with 6 percent of children in families that did not receive this aid.

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