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Kids not getting enough Physical Exercise

... for paediatricians in the treatment of obesity in children is the amount of physical exercise(PE) that the kids are getting. A recent study has shown that children are not getting nearly enough exercise, making them fall short of the American National guidelines. ...

Sleepwalking linked to a gene

... complex disorder and affects around half of young children and up to 3 per cent of adults. Though the condition is harmless, it may sometimes cause injuries to the person with the disorder or to others. Scientists examined a family of genes known as HLA genes, which provide the information needed to allow th...

Sun is bad - More or less does not matter!

...ts were also checked for moles. They found that as children grew older, they developed more moles and those children with more moles spent more time outside and had longer holidays in the sun. Skin type, freckles, the...

New ways to help children with trauma

...sting the safety of hypothermia as a treatment for children with traumatic brain injury. Hypothermia treatment...mia in children, but its effectiveness in treating children with traumatic brain injuries has not yet been studied. Hypothermia decreases inflammation, excitoto...

Scientists locate key hormone involved in appetite control

...chexia, and in finding new drugs that would assist children who are developing at a slower than normal rate. On the other hand, drugs aimed at limiting production of the hormone might be developed to reduce appetite for those battling severe obesity. Senior scientist, Cone, also added that future research wil...

Safety of soy under suspicion

... urgent research into the impact of soya on unborn children following tests on rats which suggest a chemical in soya can damage the male reproductive organs. Though there is no evidence to suggest it has a similar effect on humans, its effects on rats were so severe that// researchers believe that further tes...

Gene linked to 'Missing Eye' condition in newborns

... SOX2. The geneticists who tested the SOX2 gene in children born with the condition and found mutations in man...that directly interact with SOX2 may be mutated in children affected with similar and more common conditions. The scientists involved in the study believed that...

Babies Should Get Vitamin D Supplement

...AP. Vitamin D supplements are also recommended in children and teens who do not drink at least 500 milliliters each day of milk fortified with vitamin D. Sunlight is a major source of vitamin D and early humans likely had skin that was better suited to their environment, which enabled them to spend enough ti...

Smoking habit affects your baby's health

To ensure the health of their children most expecting moms will do whatever needs to be done. Whether it be vitamins, right diet or plenty of rest. But are those moms who smoke, ready to set aside their habit or smokers who live or work with expectant moms willing to put their habit on ho...

Drop in global deaths from measles

...isease and is the fifth leading cause of death for children under the age of five.This has largely been possib...According to reports from WHO an estimated 777,000 children died from measles in 2000 and this is about 11 percent fewer than in the previous year. Data on deat...

Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses

...lescent deaths each year. Last year, the number of children and adolescents who died was double the total numb...losis and malaria combined.// In 2000 10.8 million children under five years old died, over half of them from just five preventable communicable diseases and ma...

Traffic pollution linked to severe asthma attacks

Asthmatic children exposed to traffic pollution before getting a viral infection have more serious asthma attacks. In children, about 80 percent of attacks are due to viruses -- most of them from the common cold virus. Researchers have discovered that exposure to nitro...

Childhood Sunburn Can Lead to Skin Cancer Later

Studies show that if you let your children spend even a short amount of time outside without ... into skin cancer. But that's not the only reason children need to be protected from the sun. Because a child's immune system is not fully developed, Rigel say...

Children’s Cholesterol Matter

A new study shows young children with high cholesterol levels are more likely to de...its and cholesterol levels of nearly 450 preschool children for about five years. The children were examined by doctors and had their HDL, or good cholesterol, ...

Helping Kids Attain a Healthy Weight

...thy weight, instead viewing overweight problems in children more in terms of appearance and self-esteem.These ...Dietetic Association. The prevalence of overweight children has grown by leaps and bounds over the past decade, rising by 50 percent since 1991. Doctors general...

Folic Acid helps Kids with Diabetes

...hows folic acid supplements can help the hearts of children with diabetes. Researchers from Australia and New ...chers say it could also benefit kids. Thirty-eight children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes were included in the study. They each received eight weeks of f...

Scientists crack dengue fever puzzle

...ists evaluated the immune cell response of 73 Thai children hospitalized with dengue fever and found that all ...infected at least once before. What's more, these children had relatively low levels of infection-fighting T cells specific for the new virus. Normally infecti...

Preventing Childhood Deaths

According to investigators more than 10 million children worldwide die every year, most of them in poor nat...ecline peaked in 1980. About half of the deaths in children under 5 take place in six countries (India, Nigeria, China, Pakistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

Sleep Apnea Linked to Bed-Wetting in Kids

...inic for suspected breathing problems at night, 66 children (41 percent) were also bed-wetters. Breathing assessments conducted while the children slept at the clinic showed that 47 percent of those who experienced more than one breathing pause pe...

Easier Dialysis for Kids

Currently, up to 5,000 children in the United States are on dialysis for kidney fa...an also deliver small amounts of dialysis fluid to children more safely. The machine’s efficiency means fewer alarms, which means a better night’s sleep for eve...

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