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Rubella nearly wiped out

...nuary 2001, 44 of 47 countries in the Americas had childhood rubella vaccination programs, though most have been in effect for less than three years....

Obesity a global problem

... causing a rise in obesity levels. Paradoxically, childhood malnutrition and stunted growth may be found hand-in-hand with adult obesity in many places. The phenomenon means countries that still face problems of under-nutrition also need to pay attention to the prevention of obesity-related illnesses, includi...

Shortage of MMR vaccine

...e situation is so bad that 8 of the 11 recommended childhood vaccines are in short supply, including tetanus, diphtheria and a pneumococcal vaccine used to prevent bacterial meningitis. Another Merck vaccine, one that prevents chicken pox, is also in short supply. Because there are no stockpiles of chickenpox ...

Osteoporosis associated with Childhood Cancer

Survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at a greate... lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common form of childhood cancer and its survivability rate is reaching 80 percent because of the effective drug combinations....

Prescription Drug Use Varies Widely Between States

...ater uncertainty by physicians in the treatment of childhood ailments is an important area for further research....

Alzheimer's with psychosis runs in families

...at affected siblings were exposed to similar early childhood environmental factors that may play a role in Alzheimer's....

Sleepwalking has genetic roots

...ot. Sleepwalking in adults is quite different from childhood sleepwalking.// It's more likely to lead to injury or violent behaviour, and those affected often have other health problems, like sleep apnoea. A study of 60 adult sleepwalkers in Bern, Switzerland, shows an interesting genetic variation in these pa...

Zinc helps in curtailing diarrhea in children

...ements could play a role in reducing the number of childhood deaths from diarrhea around the world. Researchers who tested three different methods of zinc administration in nearly 1,650 Nepalese youngsters found zinc reduced the risk of prolonged diarrhea// defined as lasting more than seven days by 35 percent...

New breast cancer genes discovered

...nk to breast cancer. Fanconi anaemia is an unusual childhood genetic disorder marked by bone marrow failure. If the child survives to adulthood,// they are at high risk of a number of cancers, including brain, head and neck, and breast. Researchers at the Faber Cancer Institute and the Children's Hospital, B...

Vaccine guards against shingles

.... //Most people recover from chicken pox, a common childhood infection, without incident. But the virus lingers in nerve cells, and may re-emerge years later to cause shingles. Unlike chicken pox, shingles is a very troublesome disease, generally accompanied by excruciating nerve pain as well as a rash. Rese...

Impact on Lung function based on exposure

...ated factors like exposure to tobacco smoke during childhood and early asthma may lead to faster declines. Researchers assessed FEV 1 in around 4,000 men and women between ages 19 and 32, then followed them up until age 40. All of the participants provided information regarding family smoking status, early di...

Screening of Lazy Eye

...n the amblyopic eye, treatment of amblyopia during childhood is a potentially valuable strategy to prevent incapacitating vision loss later in life....

Resolving Autism

...r cognition, which continues to develop throughout childhood and adolescence, could be especially compromised with disconnectivity of frontal circuitry. Hence, higher-order cognitive processes may be impaired in autism owing to a lack of functional integration of frontal regions in distributed systems that may...

Colon cancer linked with common virus

... affecting nearly the entire human population from childhood onwards. //It's imparted in the air, and maybe also through contaminated food and water. Normally the JC virus is completely harmless, but in people with weak immune systems it has been known to increase the risk of brain cancer and other diseases of...

Adult COPD or asthma could be effectively treated with Xopenex

...e American Lung Association, it is the most common childhood illness and affects approximately 8.6 million children under the age of 18. A new study conducted at the Halifax Regional Hospital in South Boston, suggested Xopenex as a viable first-line therapy for hospitalized adult COPD or asthma patients. Lead...

Drinking milk: Good or bad?

...t correlation between the A-1 milk consumption and childhood diabetes that requires treatment with insulin. Researchers indicated that Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, where cow’s milk has virtually no A-1 protein, had the third lowest rate of heart disease, behind Japan (which drinks little milk) and France...

Swimming in Chlorinated Pools Raises Asthma Risk

...swimming pools may be responsible for the surge of childhood asthma in developed countries, according to Alfred Bernard of the toxicology unit at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels. // Disinfectants contain compounds that generated potentially harmful gases when they come into contact with urine or...

Music training and Ginkgo biloba benefit memory

...hose without any music training. Music training in childhood may therefore have long-term positive effects on verbal memory. Early music training, however, did not turn out to be associated with improved visual memory, such as reproducing drawings from memory. The findings on music and verbal memory are consi...

Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses

...trategy brings together crucial elements to reduce childhood deaths and long term disability. It also aims to reduce the 1.4 million adolescent deaths each year. Last year, the number of children and adolescents who died was double the total number of adult deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined./...

Childhood Sunburn Can Lead to Skin Cancer Later

...lop."As a result, over time those cells damaged in childhood become an adult skin cancer," Rigel says. Earlier this year, research conducted at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston was even more specific in pinpointing the dangers to children. According to Dr. Lynda Chin, it may all come down to t...

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