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Food May Trigger Life-Threatening Asthma

...ren. Asthma attacks are the most common reason for children to be hospitalized, say Dr. Graham Roberts from St...ue to childhood asthma has not dropped. Roughly 50 children in the U.K. and more than 200 in the U.S die each year from asthma. Dr. Roberts' team studied 19 chi...

Race Affects Sleep in Children

A new study shows Hispanic children are more likely to suffer from sleep disorders tha... more than 1,200 surveys completed by parents with children between ages 4 and 11. Parents were asked about their children’s sleeping habits and about any sympt...

Thymus transplant could save babies

... researchers said on Thursday. Between five and 10 children are born in the United States each year without a ... said they implanted discarded thymus tissue in 12 children without thymuses, and seven have survived for between 2 and 10 years. The slices of thymus tissue ...

Music Makes you Smarter

... at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, indicates children with musical training have significantly better ve... than their peers who did not play. However, those children who played for five years were the best at verbal memory tests. The theory behind the findings is t...

Banning Smoking in the Home Helps Infants

...oke was harmful and 90 percent believed that their children could be protected from smoke exposure in the home. At least half of the parents reported using more than one measure to reduce infant tobacco smoke exposure in the home. Further research is needed to determine if measures less strict than banning sm...

S. Africa AIDS in 'death phase'

... an AIDS drug called nevirapine to prevent newborn children from contracting the HIV infection from their mothers.As the incidence of HIVAIDS starts to plateau at about 33 percent, sickness and deaths are on the increase. Activists say AIDS kills about 600 South Africans each day -- a number that seems sure ...

Radiation Not Needed for Childhood Cancers

...es show radiation can affect how long and how well children survive cancer. The first study found children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who received chemotherapy but not radiation to the brain area tend...

Heart Disease Sign Appears Early in Life

...ure of overall body fatness. One out of every five children in the United States is overweight, and this numbe...ntinues to grow. Besides heart disease, overweight children are at risk for several health conditions including high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes,...

Mutant sperm beat out healthy brethren in study

...ic disease called Apert syndrome is more common in children born to older fathers. Apert syndrome is marked by...48 men aged 21 to 80. Most of the men did not have children with Apert syndrome but 15 of the men did. The two mutations that cause most cases of Apert syndrome...

Babies Brains Are more Fragile

... between accidental falls and injuries suffered by children whose heads are intentionally struck against a hard surface. But Margulies says more research is needed before such distinctions are clear....

Salt-Water Pools Good for the Health

...rs say a swimming pool could improve the health of children living in remote areas of the world.// The resear... loss, and rheumatic fever. Investigators studied children under age 17 in two Aboriginal communities before and after the government built salt-water swimming...

Teens' vitamin D deficiency an epidemic

...research suggests as many as 20 percent of healthy children in may be vitamin D deficient."It's really an unrecognized epidemic," say researchers. Lifestyle habits play a role And with today's youngsters often favoring indoor activities from Web-surfing to television, and many shunning vitamin D-fortified ...

Measles Risk in Transplant Patients

...est in the United Kingdom. Just over 60 percent of children aged 2 years received a first dose of the vaccine ... issue of The Lancet, researchers describe how two children with kidney transplants developed complications from measles. Both children received a single dose o...

Reducing Medication Errors

... adverse drug events is three-times more likely in children than adults. The computerized process was used on two medical wards and compared with hand-written orders on one medical and two surgical wards. In the six years the study was conducted, 804 medication errors were discovered. There were 18 adverse d...

Smoking and its Effects

...spiratory function. They say many low birth weight children require assisted ventilation and oxygen therapy soon after birth. Previous studies show these children grow up to have good respiratory function unless they are exposed to secondhand smoke. This new stud...

Nitrous Oxide for Kids

Each year, hundreds of thousands of children go to the emergency room with broken bones. The pa...ists. According to specialists there’s a myth that children don’t experience as much pain as adults. Adults are much more likely, somewhere around two to one, t...

Teens break bones 'due to lack of milk'

...rns about whether bone mass development in today's children may be impaired by other lifestyle and dietary fac...id that if the Mayo Clinic findings indicated that children living now had weaker bones, it could herald a health crisis when they reached middle and old age. B...

Few Parents Help Kids Fight Acne

...fects their teenagers' self-esteem, few take their children to a doctor to have the condition treated.So says ...tion (ACA).// The online survey of 514 parents of children aged 13 to 19 found that only 35 percent of the parents had taken their teenager to a dermatologist ...

Reducing HIV Transmission

... Health officials estimate in 2002 about 800,000 children around the world were infected with HIV through mother-to-child transmission. More than 90 percent of these cases occurred in underdeveloped nations. The incidence is much lower in developed countries because HIV-infected mothers are routinely trea...

Link Between Migraines and Behavioral Disorders

... for some ODD cases. Researchers in, Ohio studied children between ages 6 and 17 who were diagnosed with a mi...tween pediatric migraines and ODD. Researchers say children with migraines were more likely to have ODD than children who did not experience migraines. Childr...

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