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Study Demonstrates Benefits of ‘Healthy Kids’ Program
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Jul 16 09
A program that provides health care coverage to uninsured kids saved Los Angeles County health facilities more than $37 million in uncompensated costs…
Parents fail to recognize their children’s burgeoning weight
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jul 15 09
Despite constant warnings about childhood obesity, too many Australian parents are still oblivious to the fact their children are overweight, according to the findings…
Can Children Outgrow Chronic Daily Headache?
• Children's Health • • Headaches • Jul 15 09
Most children who suffer from chronic daily headache may outgrow the disabling condition, according to research published in the July 15, 2009, online issue…
Hush Little Baby… Linking Genes, Brain, and Behavior in Children
• Children's Health • • Genetics • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jul 13 09
It comes as no surprise that some babies are more difficult to soothe than others but frustrated parents may be relieved to know that…
Childhood obesity link to parents
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jul 13 09
The relationships between children and their parent of the same gender in the earliest years of life could be the key to understanding why…
Nursing Researcher Works to Reverse Tide of Childhood Obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Public Health • Jul 10 09
Nine-year-old Martha sits in front of a poster that depicts a single chocolate chip sitting on top of five pounds of grapes. After…
Movie characters sway adolescent smoking
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 10 09
Ten- to 14-year-olds are about two times more likely to start smoking when they see movie characters smoking - regardless is the character is…
Children Often Reach Age 3 Before Being Diagnosed with Intellectual Disability
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jul 09 09
Despite enhanced awareness, children are often older than age 3 before they are diagnosed with fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of…
Mothers of children with autism have higher parental stress, psychological distress
• Children's Health • • Neurology • Jul 08 09
Ask any mother and she’ll tell you that raising a preschooler is no easy task. Now imagine what it must be like to…
Facts and Safety Tips in and Around Water
• Children's Health • Jul 08 09
Childhood drownings and near-drownings can happen in a matter of seconds and typically occur when a child is left unattended or during a brief…
Wrong Dose of Heart Meds Too Frequent in Children
• Children's Health • • Heart • Jul 08 09
Infants and young children treated with heart drugs get the wrong dose or end up on the wrong end of medication errors more often…
Epinephrine self-injector needles too short: study
• Children's Health • • Allergies • Jul 08 09
Experts now recommend that severe life-threatening allergic reactions - known as anaphylaxis - be treated with injections of epinephrine - also known as adrenaline…
Top Six Summer Dangers: ER Doctor Offers Tips for Keeping Kids Safe
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Jul 07 09
As the temperatures rise, so do trips to pediatric emergency rooms. Severe cuts, broken bones and head injuries are the most common causes for…
Childhood Arthritis: Common but Preventable Consequence of Lyme Disease
• Children's Health • • Arthritis • Jul 06 09
When left untreated, children infected with Lyme disease can experience many severe complications as a result including arthritis, problems with the heart or…
Childhood Arthritis: Common but Preventable Consequence of Lyme Disease
• Children's Health • • Arthritis • • Rheumatic Diseases • Jul 03 09
When left untreated, children infected with Lyme disease can experience many severe complications as a result including arthritis, problems with the heart or central…
Bedwetting, being overweight linked to sleep apnea
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jul 03 09
Children who are overweight and wet the bed at night may have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), researchers report.
Both being overweight and wetting the…
Infants should be screened for hip trouble
• Children's Health • Jul 01 09
Developmental hip dysplasia is the most common congenital defect in newborns. The condition occurs when a hip joint is shallow, unstable or when the…
Consumer Fireworks Continue to Injure Children in U.S.
• Children's Health • • Trauma & Injuries • Jun 29 09
A Fourth of July tradition in many families, consumer fireworks continue to injure children in the U.S. at disproportionately high rates compared to the…
Can Hormone Treatment Ease Post-Surgery Behavior Changes in Children?
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • • Surgery • Jun 24 09
A scary unknown for many children, the prospect of surgery can cause intense preoperative anxiety. While some amount of stress is normal, what many…
Parents’ diets show little effect on kids’ eating
• Children's Health • • Dieting • Jun 12 09
The way parents eat may have little impact on their children’s diets, a new study suggests.
Using survey data from nearly 1,500 U.S. families,…
Symptoms of Depression in Obese Children Linked to Elevated Cortisol
• Children's Health • • Depression • • Endocrinology • • Obesity • Jun 12 09
A new study connects abnormalities of the “stress” hormone cortisol with symptoms of depression in obese children, and confirms that obesity and depression often…
Adults, Especially Women, Have Calorie-Burning “Brown Fat”
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • Jun 12 09
Keeping your baby fat turns out to be a good thing, as long as it is “brown fat”—the kind that burns calories, according to…
Children’s sleep disorders missed by pediatricians
• Children's Health • • Sleep Aid • Jun 12 09
The rate at which sleep disorders are diagnosed in infants, children, and adolescents is well below prevalence reported in epidemiological studies, indicating that…
Strict diets may not promote childhood weight gain
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Obesity • Jun 10 09
Some studies have suggested that when parents try to strictly control their children’s diets, it often has the paradoxical effect of promoting excess weight…
Sleep disorders are largely underdiagnosed in pediatric patients
• Children's Health • • Sleep Aid • Jun 08 09
Primary care pediatricians may be under-diagnosing sleep disorders in children and teens, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday, June…