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Triptan nasal spray effective for adolescent migraine
• Children's Health • • Headaches • • Migraine • Aug 17 07
A nasal spray containing the drug zolmitriptan, which is known by the brand name Zomig, effectively relieves migraine headache in adolescents and is well…
Health matters for children
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Aug 16 07
With UEFA’s help, children from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been highlighting the role that sport can play in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Street…
Promoting Child Safety with Computers
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Aug 06 07
Computer technology that provides parents with customized safety information can be an effective way to help their children avoid injury, according to a study…
Restless legs syndrome can affect kids too
• Children's Health • Aug 06 07
Restless legs syndrome is fairly common in children and teenagers, occurring more often than diabetes or epilepsy, new research indicates.
Restless legs syndrome…
Does This Child Have Appendicitis? Watch Out for Key Signs
• Children's Health • • Surgery • Aug 03 07
A 5-year-old with abdominal pain, nausea and fever may have appendicitis or any of a number of other problems. But how does the child’s…
Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke raises blood pressure in infants
• Children's Health • • Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 30 07
Infants whose mothers smoke during pregnancy have substantially higher blood pressures in their first months of life, Dutch researchers reported in Hypertension: Journal of…
Infant Hearing Test Results May Predict Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
• Children's Health • Jul 26 07
One of the greatest medical mysteries of our time has taken a leap forward in medical understanding with new study results announced by Dr.…
Childhood Sun Exposure May Lower Risk of MS
• Children's Health • • Neurology • Jul 24 07
People who spent more time in the sun as children may have a lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) than people who…
Improvement following ADHD treatment sustained in most children
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jul 20 07
Most children treated in a variety of ways for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) showed sustained improvement after three years in a major follow-up…
Very Young Babies Vulnerable to Sudden Death While Seated
• Children's Health • Jul 19 07
Very young babies are vulnerable to sudden death, when seated, warns a study published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
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Flat Feet Can Slow Down Back to School Kids
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jul 17 07
The first few weeks of school are always difficult for children transitioning from the lazy days of summer to the rigorous schedule of classes…
Pharmacokinetics of tramadol in children
• Children's Health • • Drug News • Jul 17 07
The recent studies focusing on the pharmacokinetics of tramadol in children contributed to the increase popularity of tramadol as an analgesic alternative in clinical…
Antibiotics Don’t Prevent Future Urinary Tract Infections in Children
• Children's Health • • Infections • • Urine Problems • Jul 10 07
After a first childhood urinary tract infection (UTI), daily antibiotics may not prevent another such infection, and may actually increase the risk that the…
Low vitamin D levels may be common in otherwise healthy children
• Children's Health • Jul 09 07
Many otherwise healthy children and adolescents have low vitamin D levels, which may put them at risk for bone diseases such as rickets. African…
Bullied teens often take pain-killers to cope
• Children's Health • Jul 04 07
Adolescents who are victims of bullying are likely to take more medications than their peers, a Danish study shows.
“We fear that this early…
Men and women equally transmit genetic risk of MS to their children
• Children's Health • • Genetics • • Neurology • Jun 28 07
Men and women with multiple sclerosis (MS) equally transmit the genetic risk of the disease to their children, according to a study published June…
Mothers’ Second-hand Smoke Exposure Linked to Psychological Problems in Kids
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 27 07
Children whose mothers were exposed to second-hand smoke while they were pregnant have more symptoms of serious psychological problems compared to the offspring of…
Teens Often Take Prescription Drugs Prescribed for Peers
• Children's Health • • Drug Abuse • Jun 27 07
Caregivers have been prescribing psychotropic medication for adolescents in increasing numbers. Although the prescriptions may be appropriate, sometimes the medication ends up in the…
Scientists identify first gene linked to scoliosis
• Children's Health • • Genetics • Jun 25 07
Physicians have recognized scoliosis, the abnormal curvature of the spine, since the time of Hippocrates, but its causes have remained a mystery - until…
Self-hypnosis helps kids with frequent headaches
• Children's Health • • Headaches • Jun 25 07
Self-hypnosis training is an effective treatment for chronic recurrent headaches in children and adolescents, new research suggests.
Dr. Daniel P. Kohen, from the University…
Thrombolysis for Acute Stroke in Pediatrics
• Children's Health • • Stroke • Jun 21 07
Thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for patients with acute stroke began in the eighties. After several small series and some pilot trials, the…
Is It Time for a Large, Collaborative Study of Pediatric Stroke?
• Children's Health • • Stroke • Jun 21 07
Childhood stroke, although rare, results in significant mortality and long-term morbidity. The lack of information about risk factors for childhood stroke recently led an…
Children of Smokers Have Five Times Higher Levels of a Nicotine Toxin
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 19 07
Children who have at least one parent who smokes have 5.5 times higher levels of cotinine, a byproduct of nicotine, in their urine, according…
Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Affects Attention in Early School Years
• Children's Health • • Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 13 07
Adding to the evidence that maternal drug use can have lasting effects, a new study finds that young schoolchildren of cocaine-using moms scored more…
Recurrence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Has Been Overestimated
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Jun 13 07
Recurrence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is rare and has been overestimated by studies which have tried to quantify it, says a review…