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Urologic Problems You Should Not Ignore This School Year
• Children's Health • • Urine Problems • Jul 14 08
Your son hurts himself “down there” while playing on the see-saw, your daughter doesn’t want to attend a sleepover because she wets the bed,…
A baby’s smile is a natural high
• Children's Health • • Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jul 07 08
The baby’s smile that gladdens a mother’s heart also lights up the reward centers of her brain, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in…
Newborn vitamin A reduces infant mortality
• Children's Health • Jul 07 08
A single, oral dose of vitamin A, given to infants shortly after birth in the developing world can reduce their risk of death by…
Pediatricians Can Help Prevent Violence
• Children's Health • Jul 07 08
Pediatricians can help prevent future violent behaviors in their patients with a brief, one-time office intervention during a routine exam, according to a new…
Half of Children in Welfare System Have History of Special Health Care Needs
• Children's Health • Jul 07 08
Half of the children in the nation’s child welfare system have a history of special health care needs, according to a new study by…
Prenatal vitamin D linked to kids’ dental health
• Children's Health • • Dental Health • Jul 07 08
By maintaining adequate vitamin D levels during pregnancy, mothers may be protecting their babies against early tooth decay in childhood, according a study reported…
Topical oral syrup prevents early childhood caries
• Children's Health • Jul 06 08
Dental researchers at the University of Washington have reported a significant reduction of tooth decay in toddlers who were treated with the topical syrup…
All Newborns Should be Screened for Hearing Loss, Task Force Says
• Children's Health • Jul 06 08
All newborn infants should be screened for congenital hearing loss that is present at birth, according to a new recommendation from the U.S. Preventive…
Newborns in ICUs Often Undergo Painful Procedures
• Children's Health • • Pain • Jul 02 08
An examination of newborn intensive care finds that newborns undergo numerous procedures that are associated with pain and stress, and that many of…
Low Childhood IQ Linked to Type of Dementia
• Children's Health • • Brain • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 26 08
Children with lower IQs are more likely decades later to develop vascular dementia than children with high IQs, according to research published in the…
Researchers seek children for a study of antibiotics for a urinary tract disorder
• Children's Health • • Urine Problems • Jun 20 08
Researchers conducting a study to learn if children with a urinary tract disorder known as vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) should be treated with an antibiotic…
High school baseball could be made safer
• Children's Health • • Trauma & Injuries • Jun 18 08
Baseball, the American pastime, appears relatively safe compared with other high school sports, researchers report. Nonetheless, injuries do occur and many could be prevented,…
Vitamin D recommendations for teens may be too low
• Children's Health • Jun 11 08
Adolescents can safely take, and may need, vitamin D doses that are up to 10 times what is generally recommended, a small study suggests.
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Anorexia nervosa may not stunt growth, short term
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 06 08
Adolescent girls with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa may reach normal height once they recover from the disease, new research suggests.
However, growth may…
Human stem cells show promise against fatal children’s diseases
• Children's Health • • Neurology • Jun 04 08
Scientists have used human stem cells to dramatically improve the condition of mice with a neurological condition similar to a set of diseases in…
Most American Adults Have at Least One Chronic Medical Condition
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Jun 03 08
About six of every 10 people in the United States age 18 and older have at least one chronic medical condition, according to the…
More Girls than Boys Benefit from Breast-feeding
• Children's Health • • Infections • • Respiratory Problems • Jun 02 08
Challenging the long-standing belief that breast-feeding equally protects all babies against disease, research led by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center investigators suggests that when it…
Infection Control Intervention Helps Keep Kids in School
• Children's Health • • Infections • Jun 02 08
A study from researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston published in Pediatrics found that a simple infection control intervention in elementary schools – disinfecting frequently-touched…
Infant iron deficiency may hinder emotional growth
• Children's Health • May 26 08
Iron deficiency during the first year of life appears to adversely impact the social and emotional development of infants, and the presence or absence…
Hospital Emergency Departments Treat Mostly Poor Children
• Children's Health • • Emergencies / First Aid • May 23 08
Lower-income children made almost twice as many visits to hospital emergency departments than higher-income children in 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers…
Hometown Health Addresses Hand Washing, Children’s Summer Safety, More
• Children's Health • May 21 08
The Texas A&M Health Science Center is pleased to provide the latest installment of “Hometown Health” with the following tips:
School of Rural Public…
Analysis of millions of US births shows association between birth defects and preterm birth
• Children's Health • • Pregnancy • May 21 08
Babies born preterm were more than twice as likely to have major birth defects as full-term infants, according to a new analysis of nearly…
Gene therapy slows progression of fatal neurodegenerative disease in children
• Children's Health • • Genetics • • Neurology • May 13 08
Gene therapy to replace the faulty CLN2 gene, which causes a neurodegenerative disease that is fatal by age 8-12 years, was able to slow…
Girls and children exposed to tobacco smoke benefit more from montelukast (singulair)
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • May 13 08
Girls and children exposed to tobacco smoke respond particularly well to montelukast (Singulair) according to researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center. Associate…
Would You Allow Your Child to Participate in Medical Research?
• Children's Health • • Public Health • May 12 08
Advances in medicine – new treatments, cures, vaccines and medicines – are driven by research involving humans. But when it comes to medical research…