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Breast Feeding prevents obesity later on in life

...by age 14. Also it was found that the longer the children were breast-fed, the chances of them not being obese were more. For example, those who were breast-fed for at least 7 months were 20% less likely to be overweight than those babies who were given breast milk for 3 months. The link between breast-feed...

Doctors advice early anemia tests

An estimated 12 to 30% of young children are affected by iron deficiency anemia throughout ...colleagues examined blood samples taken from 1,141 children when they were 8, 12 and 18 months old. These were compared to the hemoglobin levels with the childr...

Paracetamol May Cause Live Damage Warns Consumer Education and Research Centre

...e liver damage as a result of paracetamol use. In children paracetamol can cause death due to poisoning and serious consequences ranging from hospitalization to permanent disability might occur. However the benefits of paracetamol cannot be brushed aside. The idea is only to alert the consumers against the ...

Half of world's children are passive smokers - damning disclosure from WHO

...ut with a damning disclosure that half the world's children are passive smoke. In a message on "No Tobacco Day...ation chief Gro Harlem Brundtland said 700 million children were exposed to the health hazard because most governments still allowed smoking in public places. S...

Researchers Scale to assess the Severity of Epilepsy in Kids

...bility" she explains. Researchers also found that children who had "focal slowing" a particular abnormality o...newer drugs or a specialized diet. A lot of these children do well on currently available medications and treatment. But if doctors see these abnormalities, al...

Antibiotic induces liver damage in children with E.COLI infections.

...e of the most serious digestive infections in both children and adults. Infections with this organism are ofte...at. A major study shows using antibiotics to treat children with E. coli bacterial infection increases the risk of developing a potentially deadly liver disorde...

Sweet Candies replace bitter Pills for Anaemia

...e effective for improving the iron status of young children and might be an affordable way to combat iron deficiency in children of low-to-middle income groups. These candies are the end result of extensive research undertook by ...

Analgesic abuse - cause for chronic headache in children

...ba and colleagues said "They should avoid advising children to take pain medications at liberty". "If your child is complaining of daily headaches and they're old enough to open that cap, it's important to keep an eye on how much your kids are using," Diamond said....

Noise tampers hearing

Like adults, children are likely to suffer hearing loss from continued e...w national survey. The survery says that 5 million children have noise-induced hearing loss in one or both ears. If the loss is only in one ear, the child's ov...

Test-tube babies show no emotional problems

...e baby, was born 23 years ago, more than a million children worldwide have been born using Assisted Reproducti...T). In some countries as many as three percent of children have been conceived using some form of fertility treatment. "These very wanted children are well-adj...

Cats to protect children from asthma

Scientists have found that children who kept cats as pets had developed a better immun... of Virginia looked at the immune reactions of 226 children to cat allergens in their hormones. They found that 1 in 5 of the children showed an immune response...

Folate and famiy planning

...lthy cell growth and development of men, women and children and folate is recommended in their daily diet. However it is also very important for women before and during the early stage of pregnancy to take folate as it is necessary for the healthy development of babies in early pregnancy.One should not avoi...

Maternal alcohol consumption linked to behavioral problems in children

...gnancy.These women were contacted again when their children were between 6 and 7 years of age. The investigators found that on examining the behavioural patterns of these kids ,maternal alcohol consumption in pregnancy was linked to aggression, delinquent behavior and attention problems in them. Children w...

Big and Bright

...ers at Columbia University have examined over 2500 children at age seven to study the relationship between bir... individual children.But since seven times as many children are born in the normal weight range compared to the low range, even small shifts in the distribution...

Male infertility in relation to cancer

...cer. Men with a low sperm count who had fathered children in the past had a lower risk of developing testicular cancer than men who had been unable to father children at all. Poor sperm quality was also associated with an increased risk of cancers of the abdominal ca...

Ear infection- a new treatment

... Swedish medical experts have successfully treated children with chronic ear infection – ironically by infecti...cci,protect the body from such infections. However children who get a lot of ear infections have been found to have a lower than normal amount of this bacteria....

Breast milk is essential

Researchers say that mothers who breast-feed their children for less than three months may be preventing them ...ce tests on 13-month-old babies and five- year-old children showed that those who had breast milk for less than three months were not as bright//as those who ha...

Role of zinc in development

...tion for Scientific Research (NWO) discovered that children in South east Asia had better resistance to disease if they took extra zinc in addition to Vitamin A and iron supplements. In the past, zinc was largely ignored due to the difficulty in measuring zinc levels in the blood. Scientists now know that z...

Minor mutations in HIV virus

... these mutations were particularly apparent in the children since they inherit key elements of their immune sy... mothers in whom mutations has already arisen, the children could not target the virus effectively....

A treatment for blindness

...from New York report on a 10-year follow up of 291 children born prematurely in 1986 and 1987. Those with ROP ...w-up period, increasing from 38.6 percent when the children were 5.5 years old to 41.4 percent by the time they were 10 years old. Treated eyes remained stable ...

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