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Cancer Children in US Get Wrong Dosage of Chemotherapy New Study

... out how much of the analgesic ibuprofen to give a child because the dose must be calculated based on weight and age. "That is a reality for every single dose of medicine we give to children. There is no normal dose. There is no comfort level. There is no ability to say that is clearly, egregiously, too ...

New Reforms Could Cut the Number of Unexplained Infant Deaths

... what is expected from ambulance crews, A&E staff, child protection co-ordinators, coroners, GPs, midwives, pediatricians, pathologists, police and social workers. Two key changes are that police should visit the home with a pediatrician and a pediatric pathologist should always carry out the examinatio...

Researcher Studying Disease That Cripples Newborns

... one in 20,000 newborns are shocked to learn their child has type 1 congenital myotonic dystrophy (CDM1), a progressive and crippling genetic disorder. Although doctors know that babies inherit CDM1 from their mother and prenatal tests are available, many children are not diagnosed until they are born. I...

Domestic Violence in Australia Leads to Number of Suicides

...o violence at home. The report further says that child sexual abuse causes 10 per cent of the anxiety and...University of Queensland, finds domestic violence, child abuse, air pollution, osteoporosis and 10 other more significant risk factors - such as tobacco, dru...

Chinese Take Fertility Drugs to Beat One Child Policy

...lture is the mainstay, families need more than one child to help till the land, they argue. One could see...are also permitted to try for a son if their first child is a daughter. But those Chinese who are limited to just one child increasingly resent the policy....

Labor's Indigenous Health Plan A Good Start

...aikerwal said Labors commitment of $112 million to child and maternal health services was particularly welcome. Indigenous babies are twice as likely as non-Indigenous babies to be born at an unhealthily low weight, which often leads to long-term health problems, he said. Helping to improve their birth...

Stress of Deployment Increases Risk of Child Abuse, Neglect in Military Families, UNC Study Shows

... During the same period, the rate of substantiated child abuse and neglect was relatively stable for non-mi... military families and likely increase the rate of child maltreatment. State records showed that the majority of substantiated child abuse and neglect tha...

Both Alcohol and Neighborhood Characteristics can Affect Intimate Partner Violence

...ay grow and thrive," explained Cunradi. "IPV, like child abuse, typically is a private event that occurs in the home; social disorganization theory suggests that it is essential to consider the neighborhood conditions in which the home is located." "Although many researchers and authors have speculated t...

'Katee Holmes' Vs 'Katie Holmes' Case of Losing Virginity

... star. Katie is well known as she has fathered the child of Tom Cruise. 'It's a really cheap shot,' said Katie's rep. However, Katee's manager, Shy Love, a blue movie veteran, has insisted that the fledgling porn-star from Illinois changed her name to pay tribute to the 'Dawson's Creek' actress. 'Ka...

Apple Juice may Help to Keep Childhood Asthma at Bay

... asthma, it is still a key sign which shows that a child is at an increased risk of the disorder. The apple juice involved did not have to be fresh apple juice - long-life juices made from concentrate were also effective. According to Burney, it was possible that 'phytochemicals' in apples, such as fla...

Rapid Syphilis Could Prevent Congenital Disease and Stillbirths in Haiti

...ed or untreated, syphilis is passed from mother to child -- even when mothers take part in prenatal program...er prevent transmission of syphilis from mother to child at minimal incremental cost. These findings not only give guidance to public health efforts in Haiti...

Mother Hangs Herself and Three Children in Texas

...ttered the back yard. Texas has seen a number of child killings by mothers in recent years.Less than five years earlier, another Hudson Oaks family was torn apart when Dee Etta Perez, 39, shot her three children, ages 4, 9 and 10, before killing herself. Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the fa...

New Portable Communication System Developed for Autistic Children

...earchers found that through the SC@UT project, the child can express needs like going to the toilet or hunger, as well as states as being happy, sad, or tired. The system could also be used by adults with cerebral palsy, or by adults who cannot speak for different reasons like heart attack, thrombosis, e...

People With Physical Disabilities can Now Play Music With Their Nose!

...y the sounds they were creating. One nine-year-old child spent an hour creating a song, even though it required a lot of effort. "The added benefit of all of this is that the children are working on their head control," said Leaf Miller, a professional musician and an occupational therapist at Rehab Prog...

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

...een implicated in the ongoing abuse and torture of child cocoa laborers." McCloud is one small town that is part of a much larger problem with enormous consequences worldwide. "Water is a precious resource that shouldn't be bought or sold," said Gigi Kellert who works for Corporate Accountability Internati...

The Global Health Council Announces Launch of Global Health TV

...losis, poor health system support and maternal and child health issues. "Global Health TV helps us share information about the critical health issues of our times," said Dr. Nils Daulaire, president of the Global Health Council. "In a world where health and diseases know no borders, it's important that t...

Diabetes Management in Schools Act Will Help Ensure Oklahoma Students With Diabetes Are Safe at School

...e 24/7," said Melissa DeShazo-Atnip, a parent of a child with type 1 diabetes and the Co-Chair of the ADA's Family Resource Network in Oklahoma City. "Diabetes does not magically go away at the steps of the schoolhouse. Because of this legislation, our children will finally feel medically safe at school ...

Travolta Maybe Reluctant to Publicaly Discuss About Sons Autism

...h me if Travolta doesn't want to become the poster child for autistic parents, but every time the parent of an autistic child hears about someone else who is in this fight, it makes them feel better. He could do so much good f...

Obesity Risk Greater For Children Of Overweight Or Single Parents

...sion are not likely to have an impact on whether a child becomes overweight or obese. We found that parenting style was not associated with childhood obesity, said lead author Dr Lisa Gibson, a psychologist with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth. Previous indications of a link b...

Cigarette Smoke Alters DNA in Sperm, Genetic Damage Could Pass to Offspring

...while some men say theyll quit smoking after their child is born, this represents a good reason to quit well in advance of trying to conceive.' Among the next steps in gaining a better understanding of the germline genetic health conse-quences of smoking, Yauk and her colleagues plan to study how altered...

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