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Birds breed viruses

... small but densely populated area. Nine cases were children under the age of 10.Both viruses were known to be circulating among chickens in Hong Kong, and some of the cases were known to have had contact with poultry before they became ill.// Although it was not possible to establish how every case became i...

Activated charcoal for poisoning treatment

...emergency rooms for decades, can be easily used in children at home and may help prevent a trip to the hospital. The substance is a fine powder form of processed charcoal that binds to many types of poisons and can keep them from being absorbed into the bloodstream. Stocked by some pharmacies, it can be mixed...

No vaccination - diabetes link

...r ones such as those for hepatitis B, do not cause children to develop diabetes. The conclusion came from a look at 768 diabetes-free children who were compared to 252 others who had juvenile diabetes. Those who had been vaccinated against hep...

Teens listen to parents about smoking

...esting that parents can decrease the chances their children will smoke by communicating that they feel strongly their children should not smoke and doing this consistently over time. Teens who believed that their parents woul...

Overweight children Don't Necessarily Become overweight adults

The idea that children who are overweight will grow up to be overweight a...ss index in adulthood. People who were thinnest as children and fattest as adults tended to have the highest adult risk of disease. The study looked at the he...

Music in link with epilepsy

...list music or left in silence.// In other tests, children who were taught a keyboard instrument for six mont...lodies, including Mozart, did better on tests than children who had spent their time working with computers. The left side of the brain tends to process rhythm ...

Low-radiation treatment for brain tumours

...hospitals around the US. Researchers will enrol 50 children suffering from medulloblastoma – the most common m...an those currently used. // In the US, about 500 children are diagnosed with this curable condition each year. In the early 1990s, the standard treatment was ...

Dangers of Low Calcium Intake

...uring these important bone growth periods, today's children and teens are certain to face a serious public hea...umption has dropped. The number of fractures among children and young adults has increased, probably due to lower intakes of calcium. Pediatricians are also see...

High Demand for a child vaccine

...en. According to the Food and Drug Administration, children under 5 suffer 16,000 pneumococcal blood infection...government advisory committee recommended that all children under 2 receive the vaccine. Demand soared, far exceeding the expectations of Wyeth-Ayerst, said dr...

Higher Risk of Asthma in children with autoimmune disease

A new study has found that children with some autoimmune diseases have an increased ri...y and colleagues//looked at health records for all children born in Finland in 1987, including more than 60,000 youngsters.The team checked the prevalence of as...

Hypothyroidism can affect babies

...d.The researchers, led by Dr James Ludwik, studied children aged six to ten and compared those born to 124 women with a normal thyroid gland with children born to 62 women with an underactive gland. Some 22% of the children whose mothers had an underact...

Gene Therapy For Cystic Fibrosis

...ng. Treatment with new antibiotics now allows many children to reach adulthood, but there is no cure.// New research is moving us slightly closer to a treatment for cystic fibrosis that modifies the abnormal gene that causes the disease. Working with mice, scientists have restored key chemicals in cells to ...

Antenatal kerosene exposure endangers child's sight

...r vision acuity (sharpness) were more common among children whose mothers were frequently exposed to organic s...lvents at work during their pregnancies than among children whose mothers were not exposed. This is the first study to look at the effects of prenatal exposure ...

Dyslexia due to cerebellum abnormality

...that as well as having language problems, dyslexic children often face difficulties with rapid information processing, co-ordination, balance and fluency. The researchers said other parts of the brain may also be involved, but the findings indicated "strongly" that the cerebellum was a key structure affected ...

Get, set, go...

Researchers in Canada have found that children have the greatest increase in bone mineral after t...o-side jumps and other high-impact exercises.Other children spend the same amount of time doing stretches and warm ups.After a year, the girls doing circuit tra...

Risk for Pregnant Women

... women at a higher risk for miscarriages or having children with birth defects. They concluded that an estimated 100,000 women across the United States faced elevated risks during pregnancy because of contaminated municipal tap water.// According to the study, just outside Washington, had the most pregnant wo...

Immunisation to prevent cot deaths

...th syndrome is still the leading cause of death in children over one month old,//even though advice given to m...-thirds of the live babies had taken part. Among children of three or more months old, 68% of cot death victims had received the vaccines, compared with 95% o...

Smoking Linked To Low Infant Birth Weight

... women who smoked during the entire pregnancy bore children with a mean reduction in birth weight of 13.3 ounces (377 grams). But the reduction was as much as two pounds, 12 ounces (1,285 grams) among women with certain variant genotypes. Low birth weight is a very complex entity and many environmental and ...

Nasal Spray Beats Antihistamine

...imes cause nasal dryness and nose bleeds, while in children there is the potential for the corticosteroids to hinder bone growth over time. Although patients with seasonal allergies are advised to take their antihistamines or steroid nasal sprays daily, "most patients are probably not compliant,'' accordin...

Thumb Sucking in children Lead to Overbite

Thumb sucking in children should be stopped in order to prevent problems rea...habits were not thought to be very important until children reached the age where their permanent teeth began to come in, as it was believed that once a habit w...

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