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Managing pain – a family affair
• Children's Health • • Pain • Apr 11 11
Could adult children’s strategies for coping with pain come from watching their parents react to and deal with pain? According to Suzyen Kraljevic, from…
Immunization not linked to increased hospitalization for children with inherited disorder
• Children's Health • • Immunology • Apr 11 11
Children with inborn errors of metabolism received vaccines on the same immunization schedule as did healthy infants, according to Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center…
Nurses may help some overweight kids
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Public Health • • Weight Loss • Apr 07 11
A program including regular follow-ups with nurses and focused attempts to cut back on TV, fast food, and sodas appears to keep some overweight…
Children’s pain in hospital undertreated: study
• Children's Health • • Pain • Apr 05 11
A look at Canadian children’s hospitals finds that doctors aren’t documenting pain relief for the majority of painful or uncomfortable procedures kids experience in…
Emergency department CT exams of children have increased substantially
• Children's Health • • Emergencies / First Aid • Apr 04 11
Computed tomography examinations of children in hospital emergency departments increased substantially from 1995 to 2008, according to a new study published online and in…
Babies born earlier in areas near busy road junctions
• Children's Health • • Childbirth • Apr 04 11
Babies are born earlier when their mothers live near a concentration of freeways and main roads, a study of 970 mothers and their newborn…
Remove children’s catheters as soon as possible to prevent bloodstream infections
• Children's Health • • Infections • Mar 31 11
Hospitals can reduce the risk of life-threatening bloodstream infections in children with peripherally inserted central venous catheters by assessing daily the patient’s progress and…
Babies who sleep with smoker parents exhibit high nicotine levels
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 29 11
“Third-hand smoke” stuck to skin or clothing is responsible for the high nicotine levels seen in babies who share a bedroom with their smoker…
More boys than girls wet their beds
• Children's Health • • Urine Problems • Mar 28 11
About five in 100 kids wet the bed at night, but boys are more than twice as likely to do it than girls, a…
Hospital performs tracheotomy on terminal Canadian baby
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Mar 22 11
A Canadian baby on the brink of death was given a tracheotomy on Monday at a St. Louis hospital to improve his breathing after…
Fortified breast milk may not up preemies’ growth
• Children's Health • Mar 16 11
Adding nutrients to breast milk does not appear to boost very preterm infants’ growth over the first year of life, a new study finds.
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The safety of daily magnesium oxide treatment for children with chronic constipation
• Children's Health • • Bowel Problems • Mar 08 11
Magnesium-containing cathartics are commonly used to treat chronic constipation. Although hypermagnesemia is a rare clinical condition, it can occur as a side effect of…
Older parents are happier with more children
• Children's Health • • Neurology • Mar 07 11
“Children may be a long-term investment in happiness,” says MPIDR demographer Mikko Myrskylä. Together with Rachel Margolis from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,…
Helicobacter pylori Infection Linked to Decreased Iron Levels in Otherwise Healthy Children
• Children's Health • • Infections • Mar 07 11
Children without previous iron deficiencies or anemia who remained infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) had significantly lower levels of iron compared to children…
Program cuts cavities in low-income toddlers
• Children's Health • • Dental Health • Mar 02 11
Preventive dental care from pediatricians and family doctors may help reduce the widespread problem of early childhood cavities in low-income kids, a new study…
For some kids, corneal transplant improves vision and daily life
• Children's Health • • Eye / Vision Problems • Mar 01 11
Teens, children, and even infants sometimes require corneal transplants, although most such surgeries are performed in adults. Australian researchers led by Keryn A. Williams,…
Treat kids’ discomfort, not fevers: Pediatricians
• Children's Health • Feb 28 11
Don’t immediately reach for the medicine cabinet when your little one’s forehead feels warm, according to a new report from the American Academy of…
Breastfeeding Program for Premature Babies Goes Online
• Children's Health • • Childbirth • • Public Health • Feb 25 11
Approximately 50,000 premature babies weighing less than three pounds are born in the United States each year. These fragile newborns need the highest quality…
Low vitamin D levels linked to allergies in kids
• Children's Health • • Allergies • Feb 24 11
A study of more than 3,000 children shows that low vitamin D levels are associated with increased likelihood that children will develop allergies, according…
UTHealth Receives $3.7 Million Grant for Child Obesity Prevention and Research
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Feb 23 11
To continue their efforts to fight childhood obesity, The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, part of The University of Texas Health…
For kids in poverty, no brain benefit to iron, zinc
• Children's Health • • Food & Nutrition • Feb 22 11
Giving impoverished infants iron and zinc supplements to prevent nutritional deficiencies may not have lasting benefits for their mental skills, a new study shows.
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Careful cleaning of children’s skin wounds key to healing, regardless of antibiotic choice
• Children's Health • • Infections • Feb 21 11
When it comes to curing skin infected with the antibiotic-resistant bacterium MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), timely and proper wound cleaning and draining may be…
Acute anemia linked to silent strokes in children
• Children's Health • • Stroke • Feb 14 11
Silent strokes, which have no immediate symptoms but could cause long-term cognitive and learning deficits, occur in a significant number of severely anemic children,…
Exercise helps overweight children think better, do better in math
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Feb 10 11
Regular exercise improves the ability of overweight, previously inactive children to think, plan and even do math, Georgia Health Sciences University researchers report.
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Local Grants Awarded To Fight Childhood Obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Feb 09 11
On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group announced its plans to award $1,000 grants to two Lexington-based organizations that have developed programs to fight childhood obesity in…