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Rainbow research reveals young children with asthma visit emergency department most often
• Children's Health • • Asthma • • Emergencies / First Aid • Oct 27 13
New research from a University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital (UH Rainbow) study found that children ages 1 to 3 years accounted for…
Only 11 percent of children involved in bike accidents wear a helmet
• Children's Health • • Trauma & Injuries • Oct 25 13
Despite a California bike helmet mandate, only 11 percent of Los Angeles County children treated for bike-related injuries were wearing a helmet, according to…
Children with brain injuries nearly twice as likely to suffer from depression
• Children's Health • • Brain • • Depression • • Trauma & Injuries • Oct 24 13
Adults with head injuries are known to be at high risk for depression, and yet little research had been done on the topic related…
Focus on developmental approach to obesity in children and adolescents
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Oct 22 13
New studies of factors affecting the risk of obesity in children and adolescents—as well as promising approaches to prevention and treatment—are assembled in…
Low vitamin D levels raise anemia risk in children, Hopkins-led study shows
• Children's Health • • Anemia • Oct 21 13
Low levels of the “sunshine” vitamin D appear to increase a child’s risk of anemia, according to new research led by investigators at the…
Study Shows Buying Breast Milk Online is Likely to Cause Illness in Infants
• Children's Health • • Nutrition and Food Safety • Oct 20 13
Results from a study led by researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital found more than three-fourths of breast milk samples purchased over the Internet…
Infant pertussis hospitalizations lower than expected after teen vaccinations
• Children's Health • • Immunology • • Infections • Oct 20 13
Widespread vaccination of adolescents for pertussis was associated with lower rates of infant hospitalizations for the respiratory infection than would have been expected had…
Therapy helps relieve stomach aches for some kids
• Children's Health • • Alternative Medicine • • Pain • Oct 14 13
Talk therapy may help some children with frequent and unexplained stomach pain, a new study suggests.
More than half of kids and teenagers who…
Go to bed! Irregular bedtimes linked to behavioral problems in children
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • • Sleep Aid • Oct 14 13
Researchers from UCL have found that children with irregular bedtimes are more likely to have behavioural difficulties.
The study, which is published in the…
Adolescent’s weight, socioeconomic status may affect cancer later in life
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Oct 14 13
Overweight adolescents were twice as likely as their normal weight peers to later develop esophageal cancer in a recent study from Israel. The study,…
Brain development differs in children who stutter
• Children's Health • • Brain • • Neurology • Oct 10 13
A new study by a University of Alberta researcher shows that children who stutter have less grey matter in key regions of the brain…
Well-child visits more likely when parents use online health tools
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Oct 10 13
Young children whose parents used an integrated personal health record were more likely to attend six or more of the nationally recommended well-child care…
Depression linked in mothers, teenage kids
• Children's Health • • Depression • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 09 13
Teenagers are more likely to be depressed if their mothers were depressed while pregnant, according to a new study.
Mothers’ depression after giving birth…
Babies born at 37 and 38 weeks are at higher risk for adverse health outcomes than those born at 39
• Children's Health • • Childbirth • Oct 02 13
Babies considered “early-term,” born at 37 or 38 weeks after a mother’s last menstrual period, may look as healthy as full-term babies born at…
Mom’s weight gain during pregnancy tied to childhood obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Pregnancy • Oct 02 13
A study of 41,133 mothers and their children in Arkansas shows that high pregnancy weight gain increases the risk of obesity in those children…
Mom’s weight gain during pregnancy tied to childhood obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Pregnancy • Oct 02 13
A study of 41,133 mothers and their children in Arkansas has shown that high pregnancy weight gain increases the risk of obesity in those…
Children as young as five suffering from depression
• Children's Health • • Depression • Sep 30 13
Experts said modern childhoods had become increasingly stressful, with pressures from social media and cyber-bullying, school testing and rising family breakdowns among the factors…
Teen health program fights obesity, depression
• Children's Health • • Depression • • Obesity • Sep 29 13
A skills-building program offered as part of high school health classes may help prevent obesity, depression and drinking among teenagers, a new study suggests.
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Some heart birth defects may increase children’s heart infection risk
• Children's Health • • Childbirth • • Heart • • Infections • Sep 24 13
Children with certain heart birth defects may have an increased risk for bacterial infection of their heart’s lining and valves, according to new research…
Retail investment: A barometer for teen obesity?
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Sep 24 13
When it comes to addressing the obesity epidemic, fast food restaurants are a favorite target, with some communities, such as the city of Los…
Racial and ethnic disparities exist in ER pain management for children with abdominal pain
• Children's Health • • Pain • Sep 24 13
Pediatric researchers have found race- and ethnicity-based disparities in pain management and length of stay among children who came to hospital emergency departments for…
Why do you want to eat the baby?
• Children's Health • • Gender: Female • Sep 23 13
What woman has not wanted to gobble up a baby placed in her arms, even if the baby is not hers? This reaction, which…
Breastfeeding fraught with early challenges for many first-time mothers
• Children's Health • • Gender: Female • • Public Health • Sep 23 13
Most new mothers in the United States begin breastfeeding when their children are born, but new research shows that those who report early concerns…
Parental stress of caring for a chronically ill child can affect all family members, finds Case Western Reserve researchers
• Children's Health • • Neurology • Sep 18 13
The extra demands on parents of chronically ill children cause stress that affects the whole family, according to a systematic review conducted by Case…
Vitamin D Cuts Kids’ Recurrent Ear Infection
• Children's Health • • Eye / Vision Problems • Sep 14 13
Children with low levels of vitamin D and recurrent ear infections had a reduced risk for acute otitis media with vitamin D supplementation, researchers…