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Helpline Launched for Hearing Impaired

...Hearing ailments often remain undetected until the child is a few years old.Since children can learn to speak only when they are very young, children with hearing disabilities fail to learn any language, which can only be picked up by listening to it. Early detection and quick treatment can help those ch...

Uttar Pradesh Struggles to Contain Japanese Encephalitis

...tal two weeks ago said: Doctors are saying that my child is suffering from Encephalitis. It began with vomiting and high fever. The symptoms of Japanese Encephalitis virus are seemingly mild, but the disease can cause meningitis and inflammation of the heart in newborn babies. India's worst encephaliti...

Pak Has South Asias Highest Infant Mortality Rate: Report

...dont go to school and approximately 10 million are child labourers, it added....

Hib Vaccination can Prevent Pneumonia

...cine as an integral tool in our mission to improve child survival in Bangladesh, said Dr. Md. Abdul Quader ...dication of these governments commitment to reduce child mortality. The WHO recommends that all countries adopt Hib vaccine into routine child immunization...

Benoits Son Suffered from Fragile X Syndrome, a Rare Mental Disability

...'s fair to say that the subject of caring for that child was part of what made their relationship complicated and difficult, and it's something they were both constantly struggling with. We do know it was a source of stress and consternation. '(She) wanted him to be at home more to care for the kid. She'...

VYVANSE(TM) Drug for the Treatment of ADHD in Adults

...velopment. To be properly diagnosed with ADHD, a child needs to demonstrate at least six of nine symptoms of inattention; and/or at least six of nine symptoms of hyperactivity/impulsivity; the onset of which appears before age 7 years; that some impairment from the symptoms is present in two or more sett...

Inadequate Childcare Hits Wales

.... Some people believe that it is easier to get the child admitted to the exclusive school Eton than finding...ind it inadequate. Often they are unable to find a child minder within 20 miles of their homes. A new survey suggests that many of the Welsh parents are tu...

Day Care Centres Possibly Give Rise to More Infection, an Australian Study

...ities for children," co-author Dr David Burgner, a child health specialist at the University of Western Australia, said. "Therefore they are also potentially exposed to more infectious diseases earlier." Researchers said the results proved infections should be a bigger funding priority for government a...

Doctors Warned Against Encouraging Elective Caesareans

...e able to conclude that women who have their first child by caesarean were more likely to have placenta-related problems in their second pregnancy. The risk of a placenta attaching low down in the womb or rupturing increases by almost 50 percent, accordingly. In mothers who had their first baby by ca...

New Research Promises To Take The Pain Off Breast Feeding

...o be as simple and as natural as feeding their own child can leave many new mothers feeling disappointed and let down. "By challenging conventional breastfeeding positions this new research could go a long way to helping those mothers who are experiencing difficulties feeding their infants by suggesting...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

... to learn from their direct experiences - like the child who defies warnings and touches the stove. "But that doesn't work with the Earth's climate and its many billions of people. You can't rewind and replay," Seidl said. That's why it's urgent to make clear that climate change is irreversible. "If we d...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...proate seems to double the chance that the woman's child will be born with mental retardation. Around 140...t be used as the drug of first choice for women of child bearing potential, and when used, its dosage should be limited if possible." Ms Burns agrees that ...

Better Research Needed On Alcohol In Pregnancy

...rent policies on alcohol consumption in pregnancy, child health researchers say. Recommendations for safe levels of drinking during pregnancy vary across English-speaking countries and between states and organisations in Australia, according to new report written by Colleen OLeary and her colleagues at ...

Experts Call for Warning Lables on Fruit Juice to Save Kids' Teeth

...nt baby teeth were. Baby teeth, which last until a child is about 12, are more prone to decay than second teeth. Decayed teeth can cause abscesses, infection and orthodontic problems later in life. Dr Sawyer described the extent of tooth decay in young children as "disturbing". She said she believ...

Irish Teenager Fights for the Right to Abort

...of the brain, scalp and skull is missing. If the child is carried for the full term, it is only expected to live for a maximum of three days after birth. Despite the gradual erosion of the Catholic Church's influence in Ireland, a ban on abortion is still written in to the constitution. Abortions can...

Premature Birth Linked With Increased Use of Pesticides

...demic effects on pregnancy outcome and possibly on child development is a momentous observation, which hopefully will help transform the way humanity cares for its world," said James Lemons, M.D., Hugh McK. Landon Professor of Pediatrics at the IU School of Medicine. Dr. Lemons is director of the section o...

Spit Test Kit on the Cards to Ascertain Pre-eclampsia Risk

... 1000 women in the trial. This new test, a brain child of Dr Brian Owen-Smith, a retired hospital rheumatologist, examines and monitors elevated levels of urate in the body, a possible indication of pre-eclampsia. The saliva is thought to be an overflow system for urate and is therefore a more reliable w...

Babies Cot Dead - Why?

... Ann Burchell and Robert Hume, of the maternal and child health sciences division, are team leaders of a research group that has zeroed in on one of the causes of cot death a flaw in the production of glucose. Elaborating on the challenge in front of them, Professor Burchell said, Figuring out why some ...

Women's Separatist Group Opposes Sex Education in Kashmir

...was a natural instinct and if nobody ever taught a child how to take to the mother's breast, why the need to educate the children about sex. "The design is to spread vulgarity in the society," she said. Interestingly, when contacted the authorities said there were no plans to introduce sex education in...

Declining Sex Ratio

...s since gone up to 933 in 2001. In contrast, the child sex ratio for the age group of 0-6 years in 2001 i... sex ratio are son preference, neglect of the girl child resulting in higher mortality at younger age, female infanticide, female feticide, higher maternal m...

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