Six years old and growing strongly

Malaysian growth centiles for children under six years old.

BACKGROUND Growth references are useful for the screening, assessment and monitoring of individual children as well as for evaluating various growth promoting interventions that could possibly affect a child in early life. AIM To determine the growth centiles of Malaysian children and to establish contemporary cross-sectional growth reference charts for height and weight from birth to 6 years...

On Growing Old

greater pleasure in that it enables me to renew an acquaintance with a City?and a University?with which I have had such pleasant associations. I want to use the ?Pportunity to discuss with you some of the problems of ageing, both subjective and ??jective, individual and social, but I must hasten to make it clear that my approach be descriptive rather than hortatory, and that it is no part of my...

Parents Growing Old

Growing Old with Myc

The Myc proto-oncogene has been intensively studied in tumorigenesis and development. A new paper in Cell reports the role of Myc as a determinant of mammalian longevity. Myc heterozygous mice exhibit extended lifespans resulting from alterations in multiple cellular processes distinct from those observed in other longevity models.

Thirty years and still growing.

In the 30 years since the founding of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in 1969, there has been a tremendous growth in the organization as well as in the number of psychiatrists who have a subspecialty of forensic psychiatry. In an attempt to explain this exponential growth, the author looks at the many social, economic, medical, and legal activities that were active during these y...