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Start early for a lifetime of good vision and healthy eyes
• Children's Health • • Eye / Vision Problems • Sep 21 14
If your mother told you to eat your carrots so you’d be able to see in the dark, she was right. It turns…
Improving Medicines for Children in Canada
• Children's Health • • Drug News • Sep 18 14
Due to concerns about their vulnerability, children have historically been neglected in drug research and development, including clinical trials. But the reality is that…
Kids eat better if their parents went to college
• Children's Health • • Dieting • Sep 18 14
Children of college-educated parents eat more vegetables and drink less sugar, according to a new study from the University of British Columbia. But it’s…
Phthalates heighten risk for childhood asthma
• Children's Health • • Asthma • Sep 17 14
Researchers at the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health are the first to demonstrate an association between…
A greater focus on socially disadvantaged women is needed to improve maternity care in England
• Children's Health • • Childbirth • • Mortality and Morbidity • Sep 17 14
Women from lower socioeconomic groups in the UK report a poorer experience of care during pregnancy and there needs to be a greater focus…
High levels of physical activity linked to better academic performance in boys
• Children's Health • • Physical activity -exercise • Sep 11 14
A recent Finnish study shows that higher levels of physical activity are related to better academic achievement during the first three school years particularly…
Exercise before school may reduce ADHD symptoms in kids
• Children's Health • • Physical activity -exercise • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 09 14
Paying attention all day in school as a kid isn’t easy, especially for those who are at a higher risk of ADHD, or attention…
New smartphone app can detect newborn jaundice in minutes
• Children's Health • • Infections • Aug 27 14
Newborn jaundice: It’s one of the last things a parent wants to deal with, but it’s unfortunately a common condition in babies less than…
Parents, listen next time your baby babbles
• Children's Health • Aug 27 14
Pay attention, mom and dad, especially when your infant looks at you and babbles.
Parents may not understand a baby’s prattling, but by listening…
Children with autism ‘have too many synapses in their brain’
• Children's Health • • Brain • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Aug 22 14
A new study by researchers from the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY, finds that children and adolescents with autism have too…
How critically ill infants can benefit most from human milk
• Children's Health • Aug 07 14
Human milk is infant food, but for sick, hospitalized babies, it’s also medicine. That’s the central premise of a series of articles in a…
Parents want info about circumcision, not directives from health-care providers
• Children's Health • • Sexual Health • • Urine Problems • Jul 21 14
Most parents expect healthcare providers to answer their questions about circumcision, but they don’t want a specific recommendation on the procedure, according to a…
Attenuated inhibition of neuron membrane excitability contributes to childhood depression
• Children's Health • • Depression • Jul 17 14
Accumulating evidence suggests that the nucleus accumbens, which is involved in mechanisms of reward and addiction, plays a role in the pathogenesis of depression…
NIH scientists identify gene linked to fatal inflammatory disease in children
• Children's Health • Jul 16 14
Investigators have identified a gene that underlies a very rare but devastating autoinflammatory condition in children. Several existing drugs have shown therapeutic potential in…
Babies born in Canada to immigrant mothers have lower risk of cerebral palsy: Study
• Children's Health • • Neurology • Jul 14 14
Babies born to mothers who immigrated to Ontario from other countries have significantly lower rates of cerebral palsy than those of Canadian-born mothers, especially…
Severe childhood obesity shows a decline in New York City
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jul 11 14
Appearing to buck national trends, the prevalence of severe obesity among school children in New York City was down by almost 10 percent in…
Siblings may have a greater influence than parents on a child’s obesity risk
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jul 09 14
While it is well known that a child’s risk of obesity is greater if he or she has obese family members, whether the type…
Sibling composition impacts childhood obesity risk
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jul 09 14
It is well documented that children with obese parents are at greater risk for obesity. In a new study, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital,…
First comprehensive pediatric concussion guidelines, available now
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Jun 25 14
Pediatric emergency medicine researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) together with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF) today launch the first comprehensive…
BMI measurement may be missing 25 percent of children who could be considered obese
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jun 25 14
Physicians using body mass index (BMI) to diagnose children as obese may be missing 25 percent of kids who have excess body fat…
Antidepressant use during pregnancy may lead to childhood obesity and diabetes
• Children's Health • • Diabetes • • Obesity • Jun 21 14
Women who take antidepressants during pregnancy may be unknowingly predisposing their infants to type 2 diabetes and obesity later in life, according to new…
Study finds difference in way bipolar disorder affects brains of children versus adults
• Children's Health • • Brain • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 19 14
A new study from Bradley Hospital has found that bipolar children have greater activation in the right amygdala – a brain region very important…
Infant nutrition and development of type 1 diabetes
• Children's Health • • Diabetes • • Dieting • Jun 12 14
Previous studies have indicated that early exposure to complex foreign proteins, such as cow’s milk proteins, increases the risk of type 1 diabetes in…
Secondary Drowning Nearly Takes Life of California Toddler
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Jun 09 14
Lindsay Kujawa just turned away from her son Ronin for “maybe five seconds” and the toddler tumbled into the water at a pool party.
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Children With Autism Have Elevated Levels of Steroid Hormones in the Womb
• Children's Health • • Endocrinology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 06 14
Researchers have discovered that children who later develop autism are exposed to elevated levels of steroid hormones (ie, testosterone, progesterone, and cortisol) in the…