Duane Alexander
Duane Alexander
Duane Alexander is an American physician who was the director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development from 1986 through 2009. In 2009 he moved to the position of senior scientific advisor to the Director of the NIH's Fogarty International Center...
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In their search for environmental influences in human health, study researchers plan to examine such factors as the food children eat, the air they breathe, their schools and neighborhoods, how often they see a health care provider and even the composition of the house dust in their homes.
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These findings suggest that developing ways to avoid holiday weight gain may be extremely important for preventing obesity and the diseases associated with it.
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The big news in this report is that children's status is improving and continuing to get better.
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The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before pregnancy.
There are more indicators that are getting better than are getting worse.