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Pediatric patients are surviving their cancer and growing into adults. However, doctors are becoming increasingly concerned about the long-term health effects of the treatments that saved their patient's life. Many serious health conditions go undiagnosed because Doctors do not always think about the conditions that may effects pediatric cancer survivors. There was a study conducted with 1700 participants by St. Jude's Hospital. The participants were 10 years past their diagnosis and underwent lots of tests to determine any long-term conditions they might have. The average age of the study was 33. There are almost 400,000 pediatric cancer survivors and that number will grow. It is imperative to ensure follow up programs are in place and that doctors use minimal radiation.

With previous research suggesting that the fostering of long term memories happens during sleep (when the brain is in an oscillating rhythm), current research suggests that listening to audio coinciding with that rhythm can increase memory skill. As an experiment, researchers worked with 11 healthy students who were asked to memorize 120 word pairs before going to bed. As a result, on the night that they listened to the rhythm of their brain, they remembered the most words. This study also revealed that synced audio was linked to a longer deep sleep instead of more deep sleep cycles.

A study done by NYU Langone Medical Center found that men with ADHD showed a higher chance for obesity s an adult. People with ADHD typically have trouble controlling impulsive behaviors. The study started with 207 boys average age 8. Then compared to 178 men that had ADHD as a child. As a result because of lack of impulse control and poor planning ADHD had higher obesity rates at 41.1% vs. 21.6% of men with out ADHD as a child.