989 Environmental Threats to the Health of Children: The Asian Perspective David O. Carpenter,1 Fook Tim Chew,2 Terri Damstra,3 Le Hung Lam,4 Philip J. Landrigan,5 Irma Makalinao,6 Genandrialine L. Peralta,7 and William A. Suk 8 1School of Public Health, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York, USA; 2Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, ...

The International Society of Computational Biology presents: the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference, May 16–18, 2014, Cincinnati, Ohio Jim Cavalcoli, Lonnie Welch, Bruce Aronow, Sorin Draghici and Daisuke Kihara University of Michigan (Steering Committee Chair), Ohio University (Steering Committee Chair), Childrens Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati (Conference Chair), Wayne S...

1 Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia 2 Department of Psychology, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 3 School of Behavioural Science, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 4 Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 5 Children’s Neurosciences Centre, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 6 Department of Radiolo...

Stanisław Kwiatkowski, Anna Starowicz, olga Milczarek, Zdzisław Kawecki: children’s Neurosurgery Department, children’s University Hospital, Kraków, Poland. correspondence adress: Olga Milczarek, childrens Neurosurgery Department, children’s University Hospital Kraków, 265 Wielicka Str., 30-663 Kraków, Poland. Email: [email protected] This research has not been aided by any grant. Neuropsychologic...

OBJECTIVE Parents take an important role in a child's development, but there is currently limited information on parental correlates with children's health behaviour. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to examine whether parental characteristics, such as body weight, TV consumption and sport participation, affect children's body weight and health behaviour. METHODS To examine the effec...