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Particulate matter affects lung development

When children living under polluted, hazy skies move away to co...entive medicine researchers followed more than 100 children through their teen years and compared those who moved away to other communities in the West.Resultin...

Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

...d survival rates until approximately 80 percent of children survive for five to 10 years after diagnosis. Bu...ts and severe learning disabilities that can leave children unable to live independently in later life. Led by Dr. Scott Pomeroy, an associate professor of ne...

Babies Need Vaccination

...d to reserve the full four-shot series for at-risk children with weakened immune systems until supplies rebound....

Rubella nearly wiped out

...as discovered that it could cause birth defects in children whose mothers were infected while pregnant. The virus can cause miscarriages and stillbirths, as well as problems for babies including cataracts, heart defects, hearing damage and developmental delays. The goal now should be to educate foreign-born...

The winter worry

...the baby and the mother.They found that mothers of children born in August had the lowest risk of pre-eclampsia. However the research team from the National Institute of Public Health in Oslo say there are wide range //of possible explanations for the seasonal fluctuation. In Ghana, more cases of eclampsia -...

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

...fects. During the study, parents of more than 200 children suffering from asphyxia will be asked to allow their infants to take part in the trial. Half the children will have their temperature cooled for a period of three days before being slowly returned to normal...

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

...ng to 12 hospitals carrying// out heart surgery on children from 1991 to 1995. Dr Spiegelhalter found that a...hospital carrying out 120 open heart operations on children less than a year old had a mortality rate 25 per cent lower than a hospital carrying out 40 such ope...

Breast feeding can alter hormones

... of fertility as part of a human's desire to raise children in social surroundings.In the latest research, 30 beastfeeding women wore absorbent pads in their armpits and under their nursing bras.Volunteers were then asked to rub the pads under their noses four times a day for two to three months. The results...

Zinc may enhance growth in Young sickle cell patients

...wth and development. "These findings suggest that children with sickle cell disease have increased zinc requi... Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. During the study, children given zinc had significantly greater increases in height, sitting height, knee height and arm circum...

Inadequate Drug Treatment For Youth

...t. The survey on Drug Abuse shows that 1.1 million children 12-17 years old have problems with drugs and alcoh...perts say the money is a small step. Treatment for children is costly and scarce. The treatment programs can cost as much as sending a child to a year of colleg...

Shortage of MMR vaccine

The vaccine that protects children against measles, mumps and rubella is in short supply. The MMR vaccine joins a growing list of scarce drugs, with shortfalls caused by production problems, fewer drugmakers// and pharmaceutical companies choosing to stop making some products. The si...

Drug Combo Works Better for children with ADHD, Tics

...ve shown that between 21 percent and 90 percent of children with a tic disorder also have ADHD. This combinati...t out to study the most effective drug therapy for children with this combination of disorders. In the study, 136 children with both ADHD and a chronic tic di...

Prescription Drug Use Varies Widely Between States

...der (ADHD) and antibiotic cephalosporins. Overall, children exhibited greater variation than adults for most t...lasses. Whether greater variation is warranted for children or whether it reflects greater uncertainty by physicians in the treatment of childhood ailments is a...

Eyedrops for amblyopia

...htedness.// Lazy eye affects as many as 3% of U.S. children and usually develops in infancy or early childhood...naffected eye. But parents have difficulty getting children to wear eye patches because of inconvenience. The study found children and parents preferred atropin...

Influenza drug delayed

... to treat both major strains of influenza in young children said the drug was not available for the start of t...be effective. Tamiflu pills for adults and older children were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October 1999 and are available. The liquid...

Toxin connected to 'Flesh-eating' Pneumonia in Kids

...ghly lethal type of pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and young adults.// They have so far linked infect...ed in their laboratory. In 1999, they add, four US children died of Staph infection, three of whom had symptoms akin to those of necrotizing pneumonia. Etienne...

Obesity in children a risk factor for diabetes

One third of obese children are already showing signs of changes that could le...onia Caprio, who led the study, said: "Most of the children are at high risk for type II diabetes. "And, if they develop diabetes before the age of 20, they fac...

Medications linked to xerostomia and caries

...two most common causes of absenteeism among school children asthma and caries. In 655 patients between ages... socioeconomic environments.Dr. Salinas notes that children with asthma who had the highest caries rates tended to be those who were young, usually under age 5....

Smokers children likely to develop caries

..." said pediatrician Andrew Aligne, M.D., 3,873 children participated in the survey. The children in the study had dental examinations and a blood test measuring their levels of cotinine, a quantita...

Lactobacillus Supplements shorten the duration of diarrhoea

...gurt can help shorten the duration of diarrhoea in children by nearly a day. Researchers reviewed 11 internati... should consult a pediatrician before giving their children an over-the-counter Lactobacillus or other supplements. Over-the-counter dietary supplements are not...

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