You are here : health.am > Health Centers > Children's Health
Children's Health
Exposure to Snot-Nosed Kids Ups Severity of Cold Infections
• Children's Health • • Flu • Sep 27 12
Exposure to school-age children raises the odds that a person with lung disease who catches a cold will actually suffer symptoms like a runny…
First Successful Treatment for Progeria, Rare Childhood Disease
• Children's Health • • Genetics • Sep 26 12
Results of the first clinical drug trial for children with a rare rapid-aging disease, known as Progeria, has shown successfulness with a farnesyltransferase inhibitor…
Child obesity: Why do parents let their kids get fat?
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Sep 25 12
The health risks for obese children may be even greater than previously estimated, new research suggests. So why do parents let their kids get…
Military leaders point to schools in U.S. fat fight
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • Sep 25 12
Former U.S. military leaders have identified a latent threat to the potential for a leaner, more agile fighting force: the school vending machine.
In…
Kids’ prescriptions often going unfilled
• Children's Health • Sep 25 12
A large share of medication prescriptions to children on Medicaid may go unfilled, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that of nearly 17,000 prescriptions…
Study links active video gaming with higher energy expenditure in children
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 24 12
Compared with rest and sedentary video game play, active video gaming with dancing and boxing were associated with increased heart rate, oxygen uptake and…
BPA in Food Packaging Tied to Child Obesity: Study
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Sep 18 12
The common chemical bisphenol A (BPA), found in the lining of many aluminum cans and a variety of food packaging, may be adding to…
Kids With Food Allergies Can Fall Through the Cracks
• Children's Health • • Allergies • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 13 12
More can be done to properly manage the care of American children with food allergies, especially when it comes to diagnostic testing and…
Age, not underlying diagnosis, key factor in weight gain in children after tonsillectomy
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Weight Loss • Sep 12 12
Potentially worrisome weight gains following tonsillectomy occur mostly in children under the age of 6, not in older children, a study by Johns Hopkins…
Metabolic engineer synthesizes key breast milk ingredient, makes research possible
• Children's Health • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 11 12
A University of Illinois microbial engineer has synthesized a sugar in human milk that is thought to protect babies from pathogens. That’s important…
Older overweight children consume fewer calories than their healthy weight peers
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Sep 10 12
A new study by University of North Carolina School of Medicine pediatrics researchers finds a surprising difference in the eating habits of overweight children…
Blood sugar control does not help infants and children undergoing heart surgery
• Children's Health • • Diabetes • Sep 07 12
Tight blood sugar control in infants and children undergoing heart surgery does not lower the risk of infection or improve recovery, according to a…
Iowa Study Aimed at Making Tractors Safer for Kids
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Sep 06 12
Researchers who hope to keep children from dying in tractor accidents are using a state-of-the-art driving simulator to help determine when kids can…
Popular kids in US and Mexico more likely to smoke, USC studies show
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 05 12
Be warned, popularity may cause lung cancer, heart disease, and emphysema.
New research from the University of Southern California (USC) and University of Texas…
Almost half of U.S. kids with autism bullied
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 04 12
Nearly half of U.S. children with an autism spectrum disorder are victims of bullying, a new study finds.
“The rate of bullying victimization…
Organic food no better for you, suggests US study
• Children's Health • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 04 12
Organic produce and meat typically is no better for you than conventional food when it comes to vitamin and nutrient content, although it does…
Prenatal maternal smoking associated with increased risk of adolescent obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 03 12
Prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking appears associated with an increased risk for adolescent obesity, and is possibly related to subtle structural variations in…
Tobacco smoke tied to flu complications in kids
• Children's Health • • Flu • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 03 12
Kids hospitalized with the flu are more likely to need intensive care and a longer stay if they’ve been exposed to second-hand smoke at…
Inhaling steroids stunts growth, but not much
• Children's Health • • Asthma • Sep 03 12
Adults who took inhaled steroids as children to control their asthma may be shorter than they otherwise would have been, but only by a…
FDA warns against use of Pfizer’s Revatio in children
• Children's Health • • Drug Abuse • Aug 31 12
U.S. health regulators recommended against use of Pfizer Inc’s pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) drug Revatio in children up to 17 years of age,…
Research team analyzes stress biology in babies
• Children's Health • • Neurology • Aug 28 12
After waking up, the concentration of the stress hormone cortisol in saliva rises considerably; this is true not only for grown-ups but for babies…
What Causes Gallstones in Children?
• Children's Health • Aug 25 12
Gallstones are hardened accumulations of chemicals in the gallbladder. They form through a process called cholelithiasis, and generally range from a few millimeters to…
Obese teens getting gallstones
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Aug 25 12
Children are increasingly suffering from gallstones, traditionally thought of as a problem confined to adults, because they are becoming so overweight, a study has…
Antibiotic use in infants before 6 months associated with being overweight in childhood
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Aug 22 12
Treating very young infants with antibiotics may predispose them to being overweight in childhood, according to a study of more than 10,000 children by…
U.S. parents’ top worry: Lack of exercise
• Children's Health • Aug 21 12
Most U.S. parents agree couch-potato kids are the biggest children’s health problem, a U.S. survey indicates.
The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital…