Growing Up in Ireland Qualitative Findings

Key findings from the Growing Up in Ireland qualitative study were recently published. The report summarised the findings of the in-depth study with nine-year-old children and their parents in 120 families selected from the 8,570 who had participated in the quantitative survey and were subsequently interviewed about their views and experiences.....

07/10/2011   by Barbara Whelan   0 Comments

Prolonged Bottle Use and Obesity in Childhood Link

A new research report ‘Prolonged Bottle Use and Obesity at 5.5 Years of Age in US Children’ used recent data from a cohort study of US children born in 2001 to examine the association between bottle u...

06/05/2011   by Christine Connolly   0 Comments

Incidence of Cancer Attributable to Alcohol

Results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study (EPIC) published today found that about 10% of total cancer in men and 3% in women could be attributed to current an...

08/04/2011   by Christine Connolly   0 Comments