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Hyperactivity Drug Can Be Added to Food

...use the drug provides a day's worth of medication, children taking Metadate can avoid the social stigma of lea...rly children. An estimated 4% to 12% of school-age children experience ADHD, a disorder marked by impulsiveness, difficulty with academic and social functioning...

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

...t Chicago's Rush Craniofacial Center. About 3,000 children a year are born with severe craniofacial defects s...e new spot with grafts from hip or rib bones. Some children have such little bone to work with that they can't complete such surgery until they're teen-agers. A...

Anxiety likely to affect the foetus

...nxious// in the last three months of pregnancy had children with more behavioural problems. Lead researcher Professor Vivette Glover, of Imperial College, London, told that this only applied to women who had extreme anxiety, and were frequently feeling scared.According to a survey antenatal anxiety leads t...

Meningitis C vaccine a cost-effective success

...s not only reduced the incidence of the disease in children and young people, but has done so cost-effectively...er 1998, meningitis C affected approximately 1,190 children resulting in at least 88 deaths each year. The researchers say the annual cost to the health service...

Hyperactivity disorder a biological malfunction

...which enabled researchers to look at the brains of children without harming them from radioactivity. Eric Tayl...ontroversial disease has a biological cause. ADHD children find it difficult to concentrate for even short periods. They tend to act on impulse, and often have...

Watching television for long hours could lead to agressiveness

Researchers claim that children who watch television for long hours are more like...chiatric Institute. His team tracked more than 700 children through adolescence to adulthood. They found that those who had watched one or more hours of televi...

Epilepsy Drugs Can Enhance Risk of Birth Defects

...tic medications face a significant risk that their children will have problems ranging from congenital defects...o shown a relatively high risk of problems seen in children exposed to AEDs while in the womb. He adds, however, that the drugs taken by the mothers in this stu...

Children's snoring may indicate a serious problem

...ecommendations telling pediatricians to screen all children for snoring because it could be a sign of a seriou...from functioning properly. Some30% to 50% of obese children suffer from the syndrome. If a child has obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, he or she may be getting...

Relationship bertween birth weight and IQ

...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...

Acute Measles Supresses HIV Replication

...ssed during acute measles. A study of HIV-infected children found that HIV levels in the blood// were signific...ower while having measles compared to HIV-infected children who did not have measles. "We were surprised by these findings, because we expected to see HIV rep...

FDA fish warning criticized

...ng Group (EWG) recommends pregnant women and young children to eat only small amounts of fresh-caught fish once a week. Under industry pressure, the Food and Drug Administration softened its warning to pregnant women about the dangers of mercury in some fish, notably tuna.// According to a report, 60,000 wom...

Down syndrome life anticipation doubles

...rs review that de-institutionalization and keeping children with their families, along with better treatments ...nt to Australia. "Prior to 1970 most Down syndrome children were institutionalised at birth or soon after," she said. "Respiratory illnesses which are common ...

Measles Suppresses AIDS Virus

HIV-positive children ill with measles may get a temporary respite from ...uppresses the immune system. Researchers said the children with both HIV and measles had higher than normal levels of CD8 T-cells, which are a measure of immun...

Liver key to extending life

...y and toxicology.//Your mortgage is paid off, your children have moved out, you're not embarrassed about who you are, and you have the benefit of wisdom and resilience," he said. "It would be fine if it wasn't for dementia, arthritis, heart disease, cancer, and pneumonia. This is why we are actively investi...

Sex timing has no impact on risk of Birth defects

... the rates of birth defects or Down syndrome among children whose mothers reported an optimally-timed conception and those who reported a less optimally-timed conception....

FDA considers nicotine lollipops illegal

...iately. The lollipops in particular pose a risk to children because they look like regular candy, the FDA warned. "The quantity of nicotine could be potentially dangerous to a small child," said FDA attorney David Horowitz. // The agency can't say for sure if the lollipops pose an immediate health risk to a...

DNA of deceased ones stored in Funeral Homes

...artments already offer fingerprinting services for children so that parents have identification on record should the unthinkable happen. According to Klett, DNA would be a better profile for children, with this new technology....

Healthy snacks improve nutrition of kids

A new report suggests that, children can get up to almost one-half of their whole energ...rchers suspect obesity and poor nutrition among US children may be due in part to unhealthy snacking. But, as Sullivan and colleagues report in this month's iss...

Gestational Diabetes linked to Chromosomal defici

...nal diabetes during pregnancy may be prone to have children with certain chromosomal abnormalities However, re... gestational diabetes were twice as likely to have children with chromosomal defects--a prevalence of just over 4%, compared with roughly 2% among women without...

Zinc helps in curtailing diarrhea in children

...ker or the child's caregiver. More than 3 million children die of diarrhea every year, all over the world, m... see which method worked best. Around half of the children in this study received either zinc syrup or zinc syrup and vitamin A by workers at a field clinic. A...

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