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World’s tiniest preemies are growing up and doing fine
• Children's Health • • Childbirth • Dec 12 11
In 1989, Madeline Mann became the world’s smallest surviving baby after she was born at Loyola University Medical Center. She weighed 280 g. (9.9…
Evidence shows how childhood obesity can be prevented
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Dec 07 11
Targeting children aged six to 12 with school-based programmes that encourage healthy eating, physical activity and positive attitudes to body image are among a…
Baby see, baby do?
• Children's Health • Dec 06 11
Babies love to imitate. Ask any parent and they’ll report how infants mimic sounds, facial expressions and actions they observe. Now new research from…
Mothers Are Not Reaching Breastfeeding Goals-What Needs to Change?
• Children's Health • • Gender: Female • Dec 06 11
More mothers are breastfeeding their newborns, but for too short a duration to gain the maximum benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and infants.…
Memory and attention problems may follow preemies into adulthood
• Children's Health • • Brain • • Neurology • Dec 06 11
Babies born at a very low birth weight are more likely to have memory and attention problems when they become adults than babies born…
Disabled children do matter
• Children's Health • Dec 04 11
Many disabled children fail to reach their full potential because they continue to be marginalised in schools, health and social care, according to new…
Bitter Sensitive Children Could Eat More Vegetables with Help of Dip
• Children's Health • • Dieting • Dec 02 11
There’s an existential crisis that often happens at dinner tables across the country: why won’t kids eat their vegetables? Research has found that one…
Heart Disease Risk Factors for Children and Teenagers
• Children's Health • • Heart • Nov 30 11
Heart disease is not a major cause of death among children and teenagers, but it is the largest cause of death among adults in…
Kindergarten friendships matter, especially for boys
• Children's Health • Nov 30 11
High-quality friendships in kindergarten may mean that boys will have fewer behavior problems and better social skills in first and third grades, said Nancy…
When moms on welfare work, kids may lag in vaccines
• Children's Health • • Immunology • Nov 29 11
When moms on welfare work, their children may be somewhat less likely to get their vaccinations on time, a new study suggests.
Researchers found…
Daily Wheezing Treatment No Different from Intermittent in Toddlers
• Children's Health • • Respiratory Problems • Nov 29 11
Pediatricians often treat young children who have frequent bouts of wheezing with a daily dose of an inhaled steroid to keep asthma symptoms at…
Many parents request delays in vaccine schedule
• Children's Health • • Immunology • • Infections • Nov 29 11
More than three quarters of pediatricians said they sometimes or often get asked by parents to use an “alternative” vaccination schedule that strays from…
Fewer babies get chicken pox when kids are vaccinated
• Children's Health • • Infections • Nov 29 11
Even though babies under one year old are too young to get the chicken pox vaccine, far fewer of them got the itchy rash…
Functional brain pathways disrupted in children with ADHD
• Children's Health • • Brain • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Nov 28 11
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have identified abnormalities in the brains of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that may serve as…
ERs often skip tests for young kids with fever
• Children's Health • Nov 24 11
Babies and toddlers who arrive at the ER with an unexplained fever often receive no kind of diagnostic test to get at the source…
Dyslexic adults have more trouble if background noise levels are high
• Children's Health • Nov 24 11
Dyslexia affects up to 17.5% of the population, but its cause remains somewhat unknown. A report published in the Nov. 23 issue of the…
Babies who eat fish before 9 months are less likely to suffer pre-school wheeze
• Children's Health • • Dieting • Nov 23 11
Children who started eating fish before nine months of age are less likely to suffer from pre-school wheeze, but face a higher risk if…
Ho, Ho, No! Why iPads And iPhones Are Not Kids’ Toys
• Children's Health • Nov 23 11
Cell phones and iPads rank as the most-wanted gifts of the season among youngsters, with 65% placing these devices at the top of their…
Acupuncture generally safe in children: study
• Children's Health • • Alternative Medicine • Nov 22 11
Acupuncture treatment appears to be safe for those who are under 18, with very little risk involved when qualified practitioners are wielding the needles,…
MU researchers find synthetic RNA lessens severity of fatal disease
• Children's Health • • Neurology • Nov 22 11
A team of University of Missouri researchers have found that targeting a synthetic molecule to a specific gene could help the severity of the…
Overweight people eat less often: study
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Nov 21 11
Overweight adults eat less often than people in the normal body weight range, but still take in more calories and are less active over…
Hemoglobin and Blood Pressure Levels, Male Gender Linked to “Silent” Strokes in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia
• Children's Health • • Anemia • • Stroke • Nov 18 11
Factors such as low hemoglobin levels, increased systolic blood pressure, and male gender are linked to a higher risk of silent cerebral infarcts (SCIs),…
Childhood obesity - what are the health risks?
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Nov 16 11
It is widely suspected that the current wave of obesity among children will result in greater rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes over the…
Children experience differing changes one year after a sibling’s death from cancer
• Children's Health • • Cancer • Nov 16 11
The majority of children experience personal changes and changes in relationships one year after their sibling has died from cancer; however, positive and negative…
Future obesity may be predicted at 3.5 years of age
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Nov 14 11
Researchers can predict which children are most likely to become obese by examining their mothers’ behaviour around their birth, according to a recent University…