Foster care boosts IQ of children in orphanages
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Abandoned children in Romania who were removed from orphanages and put in foster care had far better reasoning, language, and other intellectual skills than those who remained, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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Young children get by with the help of their friends, and some of the most helpful may be imaginary, suggests a new study that challenges the traditional view that well-adjusted kids give up pretend pals after preschool.
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Better nutrition not only helps small boys grow up taller and stronger but can boost earning power, a long-term study in Guatemala showed on Friday, with the researchers saying childhood feeding would help reduce poverty.
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Moves to protect children from unscrupulous dealers in adoption.
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Some babies who do not have full-blown fetal alcohol syndrome can still develop IQ problems, a new study indicates.
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HOUSTON - Seven Texas children were discovered abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage, suffering from disease and malnutrition, and have been brought back to the United States.    Child Protective Services, which received emergency custody of the children Monday, is investigating accusations that the children's adoptive mother abandoned them in Nigeria in October and later went to work in Iraq as a private contractor...
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Breast-fed children are more intelligent than their bottle-fed counterparts, but this has nothing to do with the content of the milk they receive, a study published in the British Medical Journal said.
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All other things being equal, people who reach their growth potential in height, whether taller or smaller than average, are likelier to be smarter than those who donÂt.
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An elementary school program that aimed to build children's social skills and emotional control seems to have had long-lasting effects, according to researchers.
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NEW YORK  - Children who were given a heart  transplant in infancy score in the low-average range on tests  of neurological development and IQ, according to a report in  the Journal of Pediatrics.
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Intelligent children are more likely to become vegetarians later in life, a study says.
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Overall rankings from the UNICEF report on child welfare in 21 industrialized countries.
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Children at the top of the pecking order &#151; either by birth or because their older siblings died &#151; score higher on IQ tests than their younger brothers or sisters.
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Prestigious and posh, these five-star facilities educate the offspring of the world's elite.
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NEW YORK  - Unlike cranial radiation,   chemotherapy for children with a certain type of leukemia does   not appear to have harmful long-term effects on intelligence,   even at high doses, a new study shows.
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Babies older than 3 months who cry uncontrollably without reason are at greater risk of suffering from lower IQ, hyperactivity and discipline problems in childhood, new research has found.
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Women who eat seafood while pregnant may be boosting their children's IQ in the process, according to new research published Friday in The Lancet.