A new study from researchers at the UK Medical Research Council and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) projects that the severity of the H1N1 flu during the autumn-winter flu season in the U.S. will likely be less than previously feared.

Research from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London has found that negative experiences in childhood may alter not only mental health but also physical health, into middle age and beyond.

Pediatric researchers have found that a gene already implicated in the development of type 2 diabetes in adults also raises the risk of being overweight during childhood. The finding sheds light on the genetic origins of diabetes and may present an avenue for developing drugs to counteract the disease, which has been on the upswing in childhood and adolescence

Microsurgery . 2009 Dec 4; Leclère FM, Mordon S, Schoofs M This study was performed to review our 16-year experience in acute finger ischemia. A review of the literature was also performed.

Microsurgery . 2009 Dec 4; Gu S, Shen Y, Xu W, Xu L, Li X, Zhou G, Gu Y, Xu J Injury to peripheral nerves always results in progressive skeletal muscle atrophy and poor functional recovery. Previous studies have demonstrated that transplanting neural stem cells (NSCs) into peripheral nerve can differentiate into neurons and delay muscle atrophy.