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Millions of Births Still Go Unreported in India

...d to the successful implementation of a variety of child related laws in the country. Child marriage, child labour, juvenile delinquent laws all make their provisions on the basis of age, she said. "Childre...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...e. Do I have the right to decide if I can keep the child if it is a girl? No," said another. The author p...them to make money after lying to parents that the child was a girl. "Female infanticide is akin to serial killing. But female foeticide was more like a Ho...

Seven Children Ordered Removed from Squalid Home in Texas

...er children, has been charged with seven counts of child endangerment, and the same charges were expected t...ing the refrigerator, documents show. The oldest child often was left to care for the other six when Moya and Ramirez went out, court records state. Afte...

Nutritious Diet Help Improve Childrens Academic Performance

...te the menus throughout the year. Encourage your child to choose lowfat white milk or water to drink. Calories and sugar in chocolate milk, juices and pop add up quickly. When school lunch menus are printed in advance, help children decide on a balanced lunch before leaving the house. Encourage chi...

New Analysis Puts Cot Death Under Scrutiny Once Again

...are concerned that it may also lead to mistakes in child protection. Uncertainty may be uncomfortable, they add, but it is truer to reality, more conducive to scientific inquiry, and safer for children than a dogmatic stance at either pole. We would encourage professionals to keep an open mind in asse...

New Study Challenges NICE Guidelines on Adolescent Depression

... therapies. In an editorial in this weeks BMJ, a child psychiatry expert reviews the evidence and explains what this means for clinicians managing adolescents with depression. This is the fourth study to assess the combination of SSRI and cognitive behaviour therapy over monotherapy for depression in a...

Mother Has the Right to the Placenta, US Court Rules

...weeks. When Anne Swanson gave birth to her first child in 2002, she had experienced postpartum depression, that feeling of extreme sadness that researchers believe is brought on by a severe hormonal plunge. So Swanson didn't want to go through that again when, three weeks ago, she gave birth to her dau...

Zambia to Get Anti-AIDS Drug Boost from Global Fund

...hich is aiming to help treat an additional 100,000 child HIV/AIDS victims in the world this year, and provide drugs against other major diseases. UNITAID board chief Philippe Douste-Blazy is also due to discuss the supply of new artemisin-based anti-malarial and tuberculosis drugs with Zambian officials....

Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India

...is rarely an option, unless they make their way to child welfare shelters that are few and far between and ...m run by welfare group Prayas, which conducted the child abuse study released in April. The group says counselling does help the children and teenagers who...

Four Percent of American Youths are Requested to Post Sexual Snaps on Web

...es, constitutes the production and transmission of child pornography, a serious felony offense, Mitchell says. Youth who might send such private pictures to boyfriends or girlfriends may not recognize how easily such pictures can be launched into the infinite and irrevocable circulation of cyberspace, sh...

Orissa CM Orders Probe into Female Foeticides

...erform an abortion if it is found to be a female," child rights activist Anuradha Mohanty told IANS. India banned the practice of prenatal sex selection and selective abortion more than a decade ago. However, it remains a common practice in Orissa and in several parts of the country that claims about h...

Himachal Pradesh Under the Grip of Suspected Typhus Fever Outbreak

...and Fatar areas. "It's been three days since the child got fever. We showed him to the doctor on Wednesday. Though he has got some relief due to the medicines, yet the fever has not come down," said Lalita, mother of a patient. Doctors said patients were responding to doxycycline antibiotic. At lea...

US Companies Cut Junk Food Ads on Kids' Shows

...o cut back advertising aimed a kids to help fight child obesity. To head off being forced off the air by law, major corporations like McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Mars and Kellogg said this week they will pare back advertisements during television programming where the audiences are over half children under 1...

Australia is Shamed by an Inquiry Report on Child Sexual Abuse in Aboriginal Communities

The findings of a report into child sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities in Northern...t talks of juvenile prostitution , rivers of grog, child sex in exchange of drugs, have shocked and sickened all Australians. ``It is a damning indictment o...

Christina Aguilera's Silence Fuels Pregnancy Rumours

...is reportedly pregnant with hubby Jordan Bratman's child and the rumours fuelled following her visit to maternity doctor recently. Aquilera's rep has also denied confirming the reports. 'I cannot confirm (the reports),' Contactmusic quoted the spokeswomen, as saying. The couple visited New York's Mat...

Child Health Key Focus Among Muslim Nations

Muslim nations will focus on key areas of child health and vaccine production to eliminate prevent...IC members. Although the OIC has widely approved child vaccines as halal and safe, hardline Islamic leaders have argued that western-made vaccines may cont...

Drink and Drugs 'fuel British Sexual Health Crisis'

...it bottom of league table of wealthy countries for child wellbeing and found that more under 15s had had sex than in any other country. Britain is notorious for its binge-drinking culture. "Young people, from their early teens, are defining a lifestyle that involves alcohol, drugs and sex," said the grou...

Two More Unwanted Children Left at Japan's 'baby Hatch'

...amed sources close to the service. The anonymous child drop-off opened last month at the Roman Catholic h... in southern Kumamoto city, and received its first child the same day. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, an advocate of "family values", has expressed outrage at th...

Obese Infant Kacey Causes Concern

...t was difficult picking her up or fitting her in a child seat. Today her premature growth spurt makes her stand out. The four year old can pass off for a ten year old as she weighs 31.5Kg. A whole team of doctors carried out a range of tests which failed to find any underlying medical cause for her condi...

Questions Raised Over Safety of In-vitro Fertilization

... risks remain small - in other words, if a natural child has a one-in-5,000 risk of a deformity, even if the risk doubles through IVF it remains a remote possibility. But medics insist it cannot be entirely ignored. "The risks certainly aren't so big that we should not use this technology, but we should ...

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