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Study of Language Use in Children Suggests Sex Influences How Brain Processes Words
• Children's Health • Nov 28 06
Boys and girls tend to use different parts of their brains to process some basic aspects of grammar, according to the first study of…
Kids in Sport - Great for Fitness, but Concern About Injuries
• Children's Health • Nov 22 06
More than ever, children and adolescents are enjoying the health and social benefits of participating in organized sport. Yet many observers have noted problems…
Children and Chronic Kidney Disease
• Children's Health • Nov 18 06
News tips from the 2006 annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, Nov. 14 to 19, San Diego.
SEVERITY OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE…
Adolescent Girls More Active If Neighborhoods Have Parks
• Children's Health • Nov 18 06
Adolescent girls who live within half a mile of a public park are significantly more physically active than other girls, University of North Carolina…
Sudden Death Isn’t Always So Sudden
• Children's Health • Nov 16 06
Sudden cardiac arrest is a common and deadly event. Twenty percent of all deaths in the United States each year are due to a…
Regular smoking substantially increases risk of asthma in adolescents
• Children's Health • • Asthma • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 15 06
Adolescents who smoke cigarettes regularly have a significantly increased risk of developing asthma during their teens compared to their non-smoking peers, according to the…
Transfer Criteria Could Improve Intensive Care for Children
• Children's Health • • Emergencies / First Aid • Nov 15 06
Transferring critically ill or injured child from a level II pediatric intensive care unit to a highly specialized and more technologically advanced, or level…
New Guideline for the Diagnostic Assessment of Children with Continuous Seizures
• Children's Health • Nov 14 06
A new guideline developed by the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society aims to help physicians diagnose the causes of status…
Chronic fatigue syndrome begins with childhood trauma and stress
• Children's Health • Nov 11 06
According to the latest research traumatic events in childhood, and stress or emotional instability at any period in life, may be linked to the…
New statistical approach could improve hospital care for sick newborns
• Children's Health • Nov 09 06
The movement to computerize patient records in a growing number of hospitals is paving the way for the use of sophisticated statistical methods to…
Swaddling, regular schedule reduce infant crying
• Children's Health • Nov 06 06
Swaddling can help calm the cries of the youngest babies, but doesn’t help once infants reach eight weeks of age, Dutch researchers report.
On…
Fatty liver common in children
• Children's Health • Nov 04 06
Fatty liver is seen in about 1 of every 10 in children and adolescents, making it the most common liver abnormality in this age…
Should severely disabled children be kept small?
• Children's Health • Nov 01 06
In a report published in a medical journal this month, two doctors describe a 6-year-old girl with profound, irreversible developmental disability who was given…
Babies say ‘thank you’ as new research reveals breastfeeding boosts mental health
• Children's Health • Oct 27 06
A new study has found that babies that are breastfed for longer than six months have significantly better mental health in childhood.
The findings…
Childhood abuse can impact victims’ adult relationships
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 25 06
Study results reported in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Abused children may have a difficult time developing adult relationships with new people who reminded…
Eye researchers develop new 3D monitor vision test for children
• Children's Health • • Eye / Vision Problems • Oct 25 06
A new random-dot stereotest using a 3D display and infrared oculography has been found to objectively assess stereopsis in children older than three years…
There’s good news for kids and teens with migraines
• Children's Health • • Headaches • • Migraine • Oct 24 06
Nearly 40 percent of kids and teens with migraine no longer had headaches 10 years later, and another 20 percent developed less severe headaches,…
Popular ADHD drug safe and effective for pre-schoolers
• Children's Health • Oct 23 06
Monitor youngsters closely for side effects, researchers caution
A new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and five other medical centers…
Gender and Family Size Influences IBS Symptoms in Children
• Children's Health • Oct 23 06
Research presented at the 71st Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology suggests that illness behavior, specifically complaints of recurrent abdominal pain,…
Over 700,000 Children Die Needlessly Every Year in the Eastern Mediterranean
• Children's Health • Oct 20 06
Over 700,000 babies and children could be saved every year in the Eastern Mediterranean region if countries adopted some simple low cost health measures,…
Female survivors of childhood cancer: preterm birth and low birth weight among their children
• Children's Health • Oct 18 06
Female childhood cancer survivors may face pregnancy problems, including early deliveries and low birth weight children, according to a study in the October 19…
New Vaccines Available For Children and Adolescents
• Children's Health • Oct 10 06
Several new vaccines have been licensed and approved for use within the past year - extending the immunization period from childhood into adolescence. Discussing…
Breast feeding confers many benefits but making a child smarter is not one of them
• Children's Health • Oct 05 06
New research by Scottish scientists has found that whether a child is breastfed or not has no bearing on their intelligence.
Although some earlier…
88% of uninsured children live in households with a working parent
• Children's Health • Oct 05 06
A majority of the nine million uninsured children in the U.S. live in households where at least one parent works full-time, year-round, according to…
One-third of U.S. kids unfit
• Children's Health • Oct 04 06
Researchers in the U.S. report that as many as one-third of American children are physically unfit but boys are in better shape than girls.
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