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Friday, 02 January 2009 |
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Child Health News Group exercise programs, treadmill training and horseback riding can be healthful choices for children with developmental disabilities, a new review of studies concludes. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Child Health News Despite recent widespread media attention given to studies that have indicated one-third of American children have a weight complication, a new study shows just one-third of children who are overweight or obese assuredly receive that diagnosis by a pediatrician. |
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Monday, 22 December 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should observe whether combined exposures to chemicals known as phthalates could cause adverse health effects in humans, says a new report from the National Research Council. |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 |
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Child Health News Dr. Stephanie Farrell's daughter Phoebe is barely five and, along with French fries and pizza, she loves sushi, Thai and Indian food, and tacos.As a parent, Farrell knows that's beautiful spectacular for a child who spent 2 years of her young life on a feeding tube. |
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
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Child Health News The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded almost $3 million to support Rush University Medical Center's study analyzing how human breast milk impacts the health outcomes and health care cost savings for very low birth weight infants- babies less than 1500 grams. |
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Parents of children with intellectual disabilities have long been frustrated by intelligence quotient (IQ) testing that tells them small to nothing about the long-term learning potential of their children. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Child Health News The proportion of white children with high hopes for their educational progress is much lower than for other ethnic groups in England. One of the key factors behind the difference is parents' aspirations for their children. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News New research at Goldsmiths will set about answering that question by looking at how faith impacts upon becoming literate, in particular when families move to a new country and need to learn a new language. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Research led by Johns Hopkins Children's Center scientists has figured out why a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine used in 1966 to inoculate children against the infection instead caused severe respiratory disease and effectively stopped efforts to make a better one. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Child Health News Just days after the head of Ofsted, Christine Gilbert, promised an overhaul of child defendion inspection services in the wake of the death of Baby P, a new study claims that the IT-based procedures used by staff working at the 'front door' of local authority children's services... |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Child Health News Parents of children with intellectual disabilities have long been frustrated by IQ testing that tells them small to nothing about their children's long-term learning potential. |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Child Health News An estimated 55 million children and teens from birth to age 19 were treated in emergency departments for unintentional injuries from 2001 to 2006, according to a new report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)has announced a donation of up to one million doses of FluMist (Influenza Virus Vaccine Live, Intranasal) by MedImmune in a partnership aimed at increasing influenza awareness and vaccinations in... |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Drug Trials Novavax, Inc. has announced favorable results from a Phase IIa human clinical trial of its seasonal influenza VLP (trivalent) vaccine candidate. |
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
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Child Health News While the danger of magnets for children is increasingly recognized, they don't receive treatment for swallowing them as fast as required, and parents don't receive sufficient warning on toys, according to a new study. |
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
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Child Health News Children who are overweight or obese are over 2 and a half times more likely to suffer injuries to their upper and lower extremities following a motor vehicle crash compared with normal weight children, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public... |
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News After a doctor at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital tested positive for tuberculosis (TB), authorities say as many as 300 babies have been identified who may have come into contact with the doctor and could be at risk. |
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News Malaria kills more than one million people every year so the news that an effective vaccine could be available within five years is more than welcome. |
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Monday, 08 December 2008 |
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Drug Trials Experts are recommending that a malaria vaccine progress to Phase 3 trials following the successful trial of the RTS, S/AS01E malaria vaccine among 5-17 month old children in Korogwe, Tanzania and coastal Kenya, which is reported in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). |
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Monday, 08 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Screening with an ultrasound machine has proved extremely successful in preventing stroke among children with sickle cell disease, by identifying children who are then preventively treated with blood transfusions. |
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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Early detection of lung disease in cystic fibrosis (CF), combined with aggressive treatment in infants, may be the key to controlling the progression of the disease, according to a recent study. |
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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News Measles deaths worldwide fell by 74% between 2000 and 2007, from an estimated 750,000 to 197,000. |
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
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Child Health News In addition to its strong associations with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, pediatric fatness may induce alterations in thyroid function and structure, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical... |
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
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Child Health News A new study shows that children whose families move usually or live in overcrowded conditions are more likely to suffer from hunger and poor health than those in stable housing. |
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News As part of a Queensland Government initiative, plans are afoot to introduce fluoride into the water supplies of many towns on the Tablelands, in the state's far north by 2011. |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News The Rudd Government's plans to censor the Web in an attempt to defend children from inappropriate content and extreme and violent pornography has come in for some criticism. |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Child Health News A new study has found kids who learn how to kick, catch and throw are more likely to grow into active and fit teens. |
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
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Child Health News Attending a high quality pre-school followed by an academically effective primary school gives a important boost to children's development. |
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
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Child Health News A booster vaccination for parents of new babies and other household members may be the most effective way of preventing the fatal form of whooping cough in young infants, say a group of paediatric intensive care doctors on bmj. |
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Friday, 28 November 2008 |
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Child Health News Children whose eyes are misaligned and point outward are at significantly increased risk of developing mental sickness by early adulthood, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published this month in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. |
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