Conversations… | with Dr. Greene

A huge study of millions of kids revealed for the first time the true measure of type 2 diabetes in children in the United States. The results appeared in the June 27, 2007 Journal of the American Medical Association. In the recent past, type 2 diabetes was called adult-onset diabetes because this obesity-related condition was […]

Why are nasal allergies and asthma so uncommon in children in Crete . even though genetic susceptibility to these conditions is moderately high? Researchers at the National Heart and Lung Institute in the UK did a detailed analysis of the children there, aged 7 to 18 years, and found some very exciting results that will […]

Why should you care about this if asthma does not run in your family? For the last quarter century, asthma has been increasing rapidly in the industrialized world and has become one of the most important chronic illnesses of children. It.s unlikely that this recent increase has come from changes in children.s genes. Instead, changes […]