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| 1 in 8 low-income parents waters down formula, study finds |
| Many low-income parents feel they must resort to “formula stretching,” to keep their infants fed, even with government food assistance programs, a new study shows. |
| January 18, 2012 |
| 2 tests better than 1 to diagnose diabetes in overweight children |
| A new study found that the recommended blood test may not be enough to catch type 2 diabetes in overweight children, missing more than two-thirds of children at high-risk for the condition. Researchers from Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics found that performing two tests — both the recommended hemoglobin A1C test and an oral glucose tolerance test — could dramatically reduce the risk of delayed diagnosis in overweight children. The findings were presented Saturday at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in Denver. |
| May 2, 2011 |
| 27 percent of children wait too long for surgery |
| Twenty-seven percent of children in Canada awaiting surgery at pediatric hospitals received the procedures past the target date, found an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). |
| May 2, 2011 |
| 49% of Newborns on Food Assistance Program |
| A shocking 49 percent of all babies born in the U.S. are born to families receiving food supplements from the WIC program, according to Jean Daniel, spokesperson for the USDA. |
| August 27, 2011 |
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| Activities for kids and parenting tips. |
| Parenting tips activities for children ideas for moms |
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| Adolescents less likely to start smoking if they feel connected to their parents |
| Parents shouldn't let up when it comes to discouraging their kids from smoking. |
| May 2, 2011 |
| Antibiotic May Prove Beneficial to Preterm Infant Lung Health, Study Suggests |
| A study performed by University of Kentucky researchers shows promise for the use of azithromycin in treating Ureaplasma-colonized or infected premature infants to prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). |
| April 26, 2011 |
| Any prime-boost mix of injected or spray flu vaccine shields toddlers |
| Children younger than 3 years old receive the same protective antibody response from the recommended two doses of licensed seasonal influenza vaccines regardless of whether the two doses are injected by needle, inhaled through a nasal spray or provided through one dose of each in any order, according to researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health. Doctors usually give young children two matching vaccines, and one goal of the study was to determine whether giving two different types of vaccines works just as well. |
| August 16, 2011 |
| Are acid-suppressing drugs prescribed too often in infants? |
| Frequent spitting up, irritability, and unexplained crying in infants can be very distressing to parents. Pediatricians often prescribe acid-suppressing drugs for these symptoms in an effort to treat infants for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD); however, GERD is an uncommon cause of these symptoms in otherwise thriving infants. In a soon to be published Commentary in The Journal of Pediatrics, Eric Hassall, MBChB, FRCPC, FACG, cautions against the over-diagnosis of GERD and over-prescription of acid-suppressing drugs in infants. |
| October 20, 2011 |
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| Babies Who Sleep With Smoker Parents Exhibit High Nicotine Levels |
| "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 parents. This is the conclusion of a study carried out in Catalonia, which also shows that ventilating bedrooms is not effective in reducing the levels of toxins from passive smoking. |
| March 28, 2011 |
| Bacterial imbalances linked to deadly disease that strikes infants |
| New findings by the University of Florida may help lead to a cure for a deadly disease that primarily afflicts premature newborns. |
| July 1, 2011 |
| Bayer Gets EU Approval For Gadovist For Children Aged 2-6 Years |
| German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG (BAYN.XE) said Friday it got approval for use of Gadovist 1.0 in children aged two to six years in the Europe Union. |
| January 27, 2012 |
| Biological links found between childhood abuse and adolescent depression |
| Queen's University professor Kate Harkness has found that a history of physical, sexual or emotional abuse in childhood substantially increases the risk of depression in adolescence by altering a person's neuroendocrine response to stress. |
| April 20, 2011 |
| Booster Seats Are Better Than Ever, a New Report Finds |
| Parents hoping to make a safe choice when shopping for a booster seat for their children are in luck. There are more top-rated seats than ever, according to new ratings of more than 80 children's booster seats released on Thursday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit group financed by the insurance industry. |
| October 13, 2011 |
| Breastfeeding May Cut SIDS Risk |
| Breastfeeding May Help Protect Against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Researchers Say |
| June 13, 2011 |
| Breastfeeding rooms hidden in health care law |
| With her 5-week-old daughter crying in a bathroom at Nordstrom, and not knowing how to get the baby to latch on to her breast, Garima Nahar found herself surrounded by other women. Some offered tips, but one woman told the new mother to cover up or turn the other way. |
| April 9, 2010 |
| BTI completes SUGARDOWN human clinical study on blood sugar management |
| Boston Therapeutics, Inc., a public company registered with the SEC and a developer of diabetes therapeutics, announced today the completion of a trial in healthy volunteers performed at the University of Sydney on SUGARDOWN™, a dietary supplement designed to reduce post-meal elevation of blood glucose. |
| August 18, 2011 |
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| Caffeine promotes drink flavor preference in adolescents |
| Research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, indicates that caffeine added to sugar-sweetened, carbonated beverages teaches adolescents to prefer those beverages. Researchers found that the amount of caffeine added to an unfamiliar beverage was correlated with how much teenagers liked that beverage. |
| July 12, 2011 |
| Can oral care for babies prevent future cavities? |
| New parents have one more reason to pay attention to the oral health of their toothless babies. A recent University of Illinois study confirms the presence of bacteria associated with early childhood caries (ECC) in infant saliva. |
| August 15, 2011 |
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| Child Safety in the Home |
| In a world made by the point-of-view of grown-ups, there are inadvertent hazards to small children all over the place. Home is no exception. According to Safe Kids USA (an organization that educates parents, policy makers, and the general public in creating safe environments for children) a child dies every 101 minutes as a result of an unintentional injury, making it the leading cause of accidental death and permanent disability for America's kids. |
| April 1, 2010 |
| Childhood asthma linked to depression during pregnancy |
| Anxiety, stress and depression during pregnancy may lead to a greater risk of asthma for your child, according to researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Study results are published in the July issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI). |
| July 5, 2011 |
| Childhood Cancer No Higher in Vicinity of Nuclear Power Plants, Swiss Study Suggests |
| A large nationwide longitudinal study found no evidence of an increased risk of cancer in children born near nuclear power plants in Switzerland. The CANUPIS study was performed by the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) at the University of Bern (Switzerland) in collaboration with the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry and the Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group. |
| July 12, 2011 |
| Childhood Eczema and Hay Fever Leads to Adult Allergic Asthma, Study Finds |
| Children who have eczema, particularly when occurring with hay fever, are nine times more likely to develop allergic asthma in their 40s, a new study reveals. |
| April 15, 2011 |
| Children of Depressed Mothers Have a Different Brain: MRI Scans Show Their Children Have an Enlarged Amygdala |
| Researchers think that brains are sensitive to the quality of child care, according to a study that was directed by Dr. Sonia Lupien and her colleagues from the University of Montreal published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists worked with ten year old children whose mothers exhibited symptoms of depression throughout their lives, and discovered that the children's amygdala, a part of the brain linked to emotional responses, was enlarged. |
| August 15, 2011 |
| Children who seldom smile, laugh or hug a parent might be at risk for depression |
| A new study from the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh shows that even if a child isn't crying, frowning or displaying other negative emotions on a consistent basis, another warning sign is when a child shows fewer positive displays, like hugging a parent or smiling and laughing. |
| July 8, 2011 |
| Cigarette and alcohol use at historic low among teens |
| But NIDA's 2011 Monitoring the Future Survey also shows continued high levels of abuse of alternate tobacco products, marijuana and prescription drugs. |
| December 14, 2011 |
| Computer game helps eye specialists treat disease in children |
| An eye consultant has drawn on his teenage passion for computer programming to create a special test to check the vision of children as young as four, in a way that can flag up problems caused by glaucoma, drug side-effects, brain tumours and other conditions. |
| May 20, 2011 |
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| Daytime Sleepiness Is Associated With an Increased Craving for Carbs Among Teens |
| Sleepy teens are more likely to have a strong craving for carbohydrates, suggests a research abstract being presented in Minneapolis, Minn., at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS). |
| June 14, 2011 |
| Doctors see more children with inflammatory bowel disease |
| Once a medical rarity in children, inflammatory bowel disease today is increasingly common in kids, but many of them may not be diagnosed in a timely manner, according to experts from the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Johns Hopkins Children's. |
| March 29, 2011 |
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| Effects of prenatal smoking on infant neurodevelopment may be worse than feared: study |
| In one of the largest studies of its kind to date, researchers have found that babies born to mothers who smoke while pregnant face substantial delays in early neurological development, and the effects may be stronger than researchers had previously thought. |
| August 22, 2011 |
| Epileptic Kids Have More Psychiatric Symptoms |
| Girls With Epilepsy Have More Depression, Boys More ADHD, Study Finds |
| March 25, 2011 |
| Exploring how a parent's education can affect the mental health of their offspring |
| Could depression in adulthood be tied to a parent's level of education? A new study led by Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, a medical sociologist from McGill University, suggests this is the case. |
| January 26, 2012 |
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| Faster progress through puberty linked to behavior problems |
| Children who go through puberty at a faster rate are more likely to act out and to suffer from anxiety and depression, according to a study by researchers at Penn State, Duke University and the University of California, Davis. Theresults suggest that primary care providers, teachers and parents should look not only at the timing of puberty in relation to kids' behavior problems, but also at the tempo of puberty -- how fast or slow kids go through puberty. |
| September 1, 2011 |
| FDA OKs Meningitis Vaccine for Infants |
| Vaccine Known as Menactra Can Now Be Used Starting at Age 9 Months |
| April 27, 2011 |
| First baby given xenon gas to prevent brain injury |
| A newborn baby has become the first in the world to receive xenon gas treatment, pioneered in Bristol in a bid to prevent brain injury. |
| April 9, 2010 |
| First diagnostic test for hereditary children's disease |
| A breakthrough in genetic research has uncovered the defect behind a rare hereditary children's disease that inhibits the body's ability to break down vitamin D. This discovery has led researchers to develop the first genetic and biochemical tests that positively identify the disease. |
| June 16, 2011 |
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| 'Good fat' most prevalent in thin children |
| Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center and Children's Hospital Boston have shown that a type of "good" fat known as brown fat occurs in varying amounts in children — increasing until puberty and then declining - and is most active in leaner children. |
| August 11, 2011 |
| Glucose Monitor May Get Under Your Skin |
| Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo have found a way to monitor glucose levels using tiny implanted wireless fluorescent sensors that glow relative to blood sugar levels. Considering that nearly 26 million people in the United States have diabetes, this is big news for those who would love to do away with bothersome finger pricks. |
| August 21, 2011 |
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| Haiti uses 'peanut butter medicine' to battle malnutrition |
| CNN/Global Health Frontline News examines how "ready-to-use therapeutic foods" are being used in Haiti to help children with severe malnutrition. U.S. nonprofit organization Meds and Food for Kids makes "Medika Mamba, which means 'peanut butter medicine' in Creole. It's a ready-to-eat paste packed with nutritious ingredients that -- over a period of weeks -- gives a jolt to the system and puts children back on track," the news agency writes. |
| October 13, 2011 |
| High childhood IQ linked to subsequent illicit drug use |
| A high childhood IQ may be linked to subsequent illegal drug use, particularly among women. |
| November 15, 2011 |
| Hyperventilation may trigger febrile seizures in children |
| New research shows that febrile seizures in children may be linked to respiratory alkalosis, indicated by elevated blood pH and low carbon dioxide levels caused by hyperventilation, and independent of the underlying infection severity. Febrile seizures were not observed in susceptible children with fevers brought on by gastroenteritis, suggesting that low blood pH levels (acidosis) may have a protective effect. Full findings now appear in Epilepsia, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE). |
| September 12, 2011 |
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| Improving a child's chance to grow up healthy |
| If you change the way you run your household, can you keep your child from becoming obese? Two Rutgers nutrition researchers believe that's possible, and they'll spend the next five years trying to prove it with the help of 600 families in New Jersey and Arizona, and a $4.5 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| June 6, 2011 |
| Insulin pump attack prompts call for federal probe |
| The hack of a commercially available insulin pump that diabetics can control wirelessly has attracted the attention of US lawmakers who oversee the safety of the nation's airwaves. |
| August 19, 2011 |
| Intravenous fluids appear to lower severity of kidney failure in children with E. coli infection |
| Infection with E. coli bacteria can wreak havoc in children, leading to bloody diarrhea, fever and kidney failure. |
| July 25, 2011 |
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| Kids With Diabetes May Be More Likely to Have Asthma |
| Study Shows Kids With Asthma and Diabetes Are More Likely to Have Trouble Controlling Blood Sugar |
| September 26, 2011 |
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| Maternal consumption of omega-3 fatty acids during pregnancy reduces risk of childhood obesity |
| New research shows a possible connection between the risk of childhood obesity and maternal consumption of omega-3 fatty acids during pregnancy. Intake of the omega-3s found in seafood is also linked to reduced risk of recurrent breast cancer, stroke in women and early age-related macular degeneration (AMD). These findings and more are summarized in the April 2011 PUFA Newsletter and Fats of Life e-newsletters for health professionals and consumers, respectively. |
| April 27, 2011 |
| Maternal fat has negative impact on embryo development |
| Exposing eggs to high levels of saturated fatty acids — as commonly found in the ovaries of obese women and those with Type II diabetes — compromises the development of the embryo, according to new research published in PLoS ONE. |
| August 17, 2011 |
| Metformin and exercise combination less effective for glucose control |
| University of Alberta researchers looking at the effects of metformin and exercise in Type 2 diabetes patients found that a combination of these modalities didn't lower glucose control as much as hoped. Surprisingly, study participants showed better glucose control when sedentary. Researchers think that because metformin and exercise both act to lower glucose levels, the combination may have triggered a counter regulatory response by the body to prevent glucose levels dipping too much. |
| August 19, 2011 |
| Mother's diet 'can make kids fat' |
| A mother's diet during pregnancy can alter the DNA of her child and increase the risk of obesity, according to researchers. |
| April 18, 2011 |
| More evidence links pesticides, diabetes |
| Persistent organic pollutants found in fatty foods like dairy products and oily fish |
| August 17, 2011 |
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| New pediatric formula for Chagas disease treatment developed in Brazil |
| "A new pediatric formulation developed in Brazil holds out hope for a cure for over 90 percent of newborn babies infected with Chagas disease, a parasitic infection endemic in 21 Latin American countries, where it kills more people every year than malaria," Inter Press Service reports. |
| December 9, 2011 |
| New study shows inflammatory food toxins found in high levels in infants |
| Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found high levels of food toxins called Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs) in infants. Excessive food AGEs, through both maternal blood transmission and baby formula, could together significantly increase children's risk for diseases such as diabetes from a very young age. A second study of AGEs in adults found that cutting back on processed, grilled, and fried foods, which are high in AGEs, may improve insulin resistance in people with diabetes. AGEs -- toxic glucose byproducts previously tied to high blood sugar -- are found in most heated foods and, in great excess, in commercial infant formulas. |
| October 05, 2011 |
| New UTHealth trial aimed at helping pregnant women stop smoking |
| A clinical trial to test the safety and efficacy of a medication that could help pregnant women stop smoking has begun enrollment at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). |
| May 4, 2011 |
| New wave of disabilities strains school's resources for children with special needs |
| For educators, (chronic fatigue syndrome) is merely one of an expanding group of "hidden disabilities" increasingly being diagnosed in children, conditions that are debilitating but often not visible, including fibromyalgia, multiple chemical sensitivities, Crohn's disease and migraines. ... The sharp rise in such diagnoses has strained the special-education resources of school districts, which are legally prohibited from factoring in cost when deciding how to address a student's special needs. |
| September 19, 2011 |
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| Obese Children Have Up to Double the Risk of Having Asthma |
| Asthma is considered one of the main causes of school absenteeism and its prevalence has risen in the last decades. Overweight children have been shown to have double the frequency of asthma than that of non-obese children. |
| October 14, 2011 |
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| Parents' Guide to Soothing Your Crying Baby |
| Expert Q&A: Crying and Colic |
| April 19, 2011 |
| Parents' work influences how often family meals are eaten outside of home |
| According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Americans are spending about half their food budget in restaurants. As it is widely known, food prepared away from home, as compared to food prepared at home, is often higher in calories, saturated fat, and sodium. With children's dietary quality at risk, a study in the May/June 2011 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior explores the influence of parental styles and work schedules on children's use of and time spent in fast-food and full-service restaurants. |
| May 6, 2011 |
| Pediatric flu vaccination: Understanding low acceptance rates could help increase coverage |
| A study of H1N1 and seasonal influenza vaccination in a sample of black and Hispanic children in Atlanta found a low rate of vaccine acceptance among parents and caregivers. Only 36 percent of parents and caregivers indicated they would immunize children against H1N1, and 22 percent indicated their children received the seasonal influenza vaccine in the previous three months. The majority of children in the sample (71 percent) were from households with less than $40,000 in annual income. |
| April 28, 2011 |
| PerkinElmer's ViaCord enters collaborative study with Miracle Babies |
| PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, announced today that its family cord blood banking business, ViaCordreg;, entered into a collaborative study with Miracle Babies, a non-profit organization supporting families with newborns in Neonatal Intensive Care Units. |
| December 20, 2011 |
| Prenatal Pesticide Exposure Tied to Lower IQ in Children, Study Finds |
| In a new study suggesting pesticides may be associated with the health and development of children, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health have found that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides -- widely used on food crops -- is related to lower intelligence scores at age 7. |
| April 21, 2011 |
| Protein levels could signal that a child will develop diabetes |
| Decreasing blood levels of a protein that helps control inflammation may be a red flag that could help children avoid type 1 diabetes, researchers say. |
| April 25, 2011 |
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| Reducing Lifelong Disability from Sports Injuries in Children |
| To protect children from lifelong injuries in sports, we need a public health approach similar to that mounted against smoking and drunk driving, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). |
| June 20, 2011 |
| Relationship Between Glaucoma and Diabetes, Hypertension |
| Many Americans suffer from diabetes and hypertension and, according to a study by researchers at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, these individuals may have an increased risk of developing open-angle glaucoma (OAG). |
| August 17, 2011 |
| Researchers Develop Lab-On-A-Chip Sensor for Enhancing CARES Study |
| UC, Marietta College in collaboration with the community is working with a project, "Communities Actively Researching Exposure Study (CARES)" that focuses on the impact of air pollution on childhood health, in the southeastern Ohio region specifically on the impact of manganese. This study is headed by Erin Haynes, DrPH of UC's Environmental Health Department. |
| August 11, 2011 |
| Rotavirus vaccine greatly reduced gastroenteritis hospitalizations in children |
| Vaccination against rotavirus, a major cause of severe acute gastroenteritis in children, dramatically decreased hospitalization rates for the infection among infants in three U.S. counties, according to a new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. |
| June 24, 2011 |
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| Scientists identify gene that exacerbates risk factors for heart disease and diabetes |
| A scientist at the Gladstone Institutes has discovered how a gene known as SIRT3 contributes to a suite of health problems sweeping across America, offering new insight into how to combat these potentially fatal conditions. |
| August 18, 2011 |
| Shingles & Chickenpox: What's the Link? |
| Just before Christmas a few years ago, Richard DiCarlo, MD, woke up in the night with burning pain on his left side. Turning on a light, he saw a row of red bumps and knew immediately that he had shingles, also known as zoster, caused by the reactivation of the chickenpox virus, dormant since a childhood infection. |
| April 19, 2011 |
| Smoke-exposed children with flu more likely to need ICU care |
| Children who are exposed to secondhand smoke are more likely to need intensive care and intubation when hospitalized with influenza, according to new research by the University of Rochester Medical Center presented today at the Pediatric Academic Society meeting in Denver. The children also had longer hospital stays. |
| May 2, 2011 |
| Sonography complements physical exam in identifying juvenile inflammatory arthritis in children |
| Juvenile Inflammatory Arthritis (JIA) is a potentially debilitating childhood disease. Early detection and treatment of active arthritis may avert long term joint damage and disability. Research has shown that sonography with power Doppler can facilitate making assessments in joint activity and sub-clinical disease, according to research being presented at the 2011 American Roentgen Ray Society's annual meeting. |
| May 5, 2011 |
| Streptococci and E. coli continue to put newborns at risk for sepsis |
| Bloodstream infections in newborns can lead to serious complications with substantial morbidity and mortality. What's more, the pathogens responsible for neonatal infections have changed over time. In recent years, however, antibiotic prophylaxis given to at-risk mothers has reduced the incidence of early-onset group B streptococcal infections among their babies. |
| April 25, 2011 |
| Strokes in Children and Young Adults on the Rise |
| Researchers Say Findings Should Be a Wake-Up Call for Lifestyle Improvements |
| September 1, 2011 |
| Studies examine impact of media use among youth, recommend preventative measures |
| In today's society where access to media is ever present, many parents worry about what is appropriate media usage for their children and how media consumption can potentially affect them. Two new studies led by Dr. Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH and Dr. Michelle M. Garrison, PhD of Seattle Children's Research Institute, focus on different uses of media and assess how media usage can lead to depression in college students and disrupt sleep patterns in preschool aged children. The results of Dr. Christakis' study, "Problematic Internet Usage in U.S. College Students: A Pilot Study," were recently published online in BMC Medicine, while Dr. Garrison's study, "Media Use and Child Sleep: The Impact of Content, Timing, and Environment," was published online June 27 in Pediatrics. |
| June 27, 2011 |
| Study confirms that living with a smoker increases absenteeism in school children |
| Children who live in households where they are exposed to tobacco smoke miss more days of school than do children living in smoke-free homes, a new nationwide study confirms. The report from investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) — which finds these children have higher rates of respiratory illnesses that can be caused by second-hand smoke and details the probable economic costs of their increased school absence — has been released in the online edition of Pediatrics. |
| September 6, 2011 |
| Study finds clue to birth defects in babies of mothers with diabetes |
| In a paper published today in Diabetologia, a team at Joslin Diabetes Center, headed by Mary R. Loeken, PhD, has identified the enzyme AMP kinase (AMPK) as key to the molecular mechanism that significantly increases the risk of neural tube defects such as spina bifida and some heart defects among babies born to women with diabetes. |
| October 17, 2011 |
| Switch in cell's 'power plant' declines with age, rejuvenated by drug |
| Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have found a protein normally involved in blood pressure regulation in a surprising place: tucked within the little "power plants" of cells, the mitochondria. The quantity of this protein appears to decrease with age, but treating older mice with the blood pressure medication losartan can increase protein numbers to youthful levels, decreasing both blood pressure and cellular energy usage. The researchers say these findings, published online during the week of August 15, 2011, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may lead to new treatments for mitochondrial—specific, age-related diseases, such as diabetes, hearing loss, frailty and Parkinson's disease. |
| August 16, 2011 |
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| Teaching kids about healthy eating, active living (Video) |
| Penn State Outreach, along with researchers from the colleges of medicine, health and human development and agricultural sciences, are building relationships with children and their parents in the Bald Eagle Area School District in Centre County, Pa., in hopes of combating childhood obesity. |
| June 16, 2011 |
| Teenage stroke -- a frightening trend |
| Stroke has generally been considered a disease of the elderly, but the incidence of stroke in children and teens has increased in recent years. The American Heart Association Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2011 Data indicate that the unhealthy behaviors that are the risk factors for stroke begin with school-aged children. |
| August 25, 2011 |
| Three open-heart surgeries free baby from bleak prognosis |
| Don and Shawna Albright had almost lost hope. Eighteen weeks into Shawna's pregnancy, an ultrasound showed deadly, unfixable problems with their baby girl's heart. Two referrals and two echocardiograms later, doctors said there was no way the baby would survive her complex heart defects. |
| May 10, 2011 |
| Too Much Texting Increases Health Risks in Teens |
| Excessive Texting, Social Networking Linked to Drinking, Smoking, Drug Use |
| November 9, 2010 |
| Toxic BPA turning up in children's soup cans: group |
| Worrying levels of BPA, an industrial chemical with suspected links to cancer, lurk inside canned soups and pasta targeted at American children, the Breast Cancer Fund said Wednesday. |
| September 21, 2011 |
| Trend reversal: Big drop in kids' ear infections |
| Ear infections, a scourge that has left countless tots screaming through the night, have fallen dramatically, and some researchers suggest a decline in smoking by parents might be part of the reason. |
| March 4, 2011 |
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| UF expert: In the quest to cure Type 1 diabetes, scientists must develop better research standards |
| A cure for Type 1 diabetes has been the holy grail of researchers worldwide since the first clinical trials seeking to cure the disease began some three decades ago. But despite many advances, the target still seems just out of reach. That point was made frustratingly clear for scientists worldwide this year when several clinical trials that had held great promise based on laboratory studies yielded disappointing results. |
| August 18, 2011 |
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| Vitamin A supplements for children could save 600,000 lives a year |
| Children in low and middle income countries should be given vitamin A supplements to prevent death and illness, concludes a study published in the British Medical Journal today. |
| August 26, 2011 |
| Vitamin E or metformin may not be effective for treating liver disease in children and teens |
| In contrast to previous preliminary data, use of vitamin E or the diabetes drug metformin was not superior to placebo on a measured outcome for treating nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children and adolescents, according to a study in the April 27 issue of JAMA. |
| April 26, 2011 |
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| Worldwide collaborative project to improve newborn screening accuracy for metabolic disorders |
| A unique worldwide collaborative project takes advantage of the Internet to improve the accuracy of screening for rare metabolic disorders in newborns, reports a paper in the March issue of Genetics in Medicine, the official peer-reviewed journal of The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG). The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. |
| March 4, 2011 |
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| Young adults with chronic illnesses have poorer educational, vocational and financial outcomes |
| Most young adults who grow up with chronic illness graduate high school and have employment, but those with cancer, diabetes, or epilepsy are significantly less likely than their healthy peers to achieve important educational and vocational milestones, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. |
| March 7, 2011 |
| Young adults' beliefs about their health clash with risky behaviors |
| The results are part of a survey of 1,248 Americans ages 18-44 on their attitudes about health, including influences of and beliefs about health behaviors and their risks for stroke. |
| May 2, 2011 |