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Migration is the Cause for Fresh Polio Cases in the Capital: Sheila Dikshit

...eila Dikshit Saturday said that around 2.7 million kids would be administered immunisation drops as part of the Pulse Polio programme. "Delhi was on the threshold of eradication of polio but the occurrence of fresh cases, mostly due to migration of polio affected children from neighbouring states, has po...

Activity Added to Video Games can Fight Fat, Shows Mayo Clinic

It’s a known fact, that kids who are addicted to video games are mostly sedenta...ted creating video games that are designed to make kids who play them, to be more active. These games ensure that the kid’s burn more calories than they wou...

Handle Your Cute Pets With Care

...sters. This was followed with reports of certain kids being taken ill and their pets dying. Further investigations revealed the link with salmonella infected hamsters and the sick children. The strain of salmonella involved was a rare one, and investigators were ultimately able to identify 28 matching ...

Sad Adults -Childhood may Hold the Clue

...his included 680 who were abused and neglected as kids and 520 of others, having equal status of age, sex and social standing. The children were tracked into an average age of 29 years. Results drawn depicted that a very significant part of them; 75 percent, grew up into severely depressed adults. ...

Sweetened Drinks in Sipper Cups Hasten Tooth Decay in Toddlers

...ent of AAPD. Data shows that about a third of all kids in the U.S with tooth decay have used sipper cups. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that there has been an increase of 15.2% of cases of cavities in the milk teeth and tooth decay among 2-5 year olds between 1999 and 2002. ...

Keep Kids Active in the Holidays

...r balls and tennis racquets are a great way to get kids interested in physical activity,” Dr Yong said. “Swimming or horse-riding lessons, bicycle outings, backyard cricket, or just taking the dog for a regular run around the local park are all healthy ways to spend time with your family and stay active....

Living Liver Donor Who Saved Life of Mother-in-law Represents Cedars-Sinai in Rose Parade

...y were really concerned because I have three young kids and they didn’t want anything to happen. My attitude was, nothing’s going to happen. This is going to be good. This was meant to be. We need to get you better and let’s get this going,” Karzin recalls, adding that he has endured a fair amount of ribb...

Having Kids at Home Fatten Up Mom and Dad?

...valanche of diseases. In an American family with kids around, parents tend to eat more and put on more ...time pressures that parents face, and sharing from kids very high calorie sugary food . Adults do get tempted to eat the food that is often intended only fo...

Preschoolers at Risk

...searchers, as all three; black, white and Hispanic kids alike, have their meals while watching TV, and the...ake a bottle to bed as against 6 per cent of white kids and 4 percent of black kids could be a clue. One more reason could be cultural differences as Hispan...

CDC Uses Advertising Campaign to Get Kids Moving

...tion shows that advertising can succeed in getting kids to be more physically active. The study evaluat...elling’ physical activity as a product and lots of kids ‘bought’ [it].” The study appears in the January issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medi...

Keep Kids Active in the Holidays

...r balls and tennis racquets are a great way to get kids interested in physical activity,” Dr Yong said. “Swimming or horse-riding lessons, bicycle outings, backyard cricket, or just taking the dog for a regular run around the local park are all healthy ways to spend time with your family and stay active...

Medical Clowns To Cheer Up Sick Children

...own performer, Stephen Ringold, said, "We take the kids from diagnosis to whatever fate they have. "We go through worlds together. Sometimes I break down crying, because there's nothing I can do, really." Many other hospitals are applying this theory of "laughter is the best medicine" to bring some ch...

Is Your Child Allergic To Peanuts?

...ears there's going to be a treatment available for kids with food allergy,' says Burks. Peanut allergy is considered the most dangerous type and 1.5 million are affected by it. Even a sniff at aroma of the legume is enough to set off a reaction in some patients. It has been believed that there's only ...

People With More Kids may Have Shorter Life Span

...n may have a shorter life span than those with few kids and the risks are particularly high for mothers, says a new study.// Researchers led by Dustin Penn and Ken Smith of University of Utah looked at case studies of 21,000 couples living in Utah between 1860 and 1985, who bore a total of 174,000 childr...

Gift Yourself A Healthy Heart

... the weekend drinking. Most often, they're college kids who are otherwise healthy," Raisinghani said. The patient usually recovers within 24 hours. However, some patients will remain in the hospital and take medication to slow down their heart rate until it returns to its normal rhythm. Raisinghani ...

Soda and Juice Drinks Could Make Kids Obese

Drinking lots of soda and juicy drinks could make kids obese, says a new US study. The finding comes from a study of 154 girls seen every two years// since age five by Alison K. Ventura and other researchers at Pennsylvania State University, according to the online edition of health magazine WebMD. By ...

Health Risks Abound Among Lazy Teens

...y study reviewed the daily schedules of about 6000 kids in the age group of 11-12 years from over 36 schools in London. The researchers found out that very few of them are actively involved in a regular sport or active recreation. Boys and girls laze around idling their time about 2.5 hours more than the...

Delhi Resident Gives Birth to Quadruplets

A Delhi resident has given birth to four kids in a hospital, authorities said Thursday. // Lakshmi, 23, gave birth to three girls and a boy in the Maharaja Agrasen Hospital in Punjabi Bagh in northwest Delhi Wednesday. 'The condition of both the mother and the babies are stable. We had taken...

Missed Vaccination Caused Largest Measles Outbreak in U.S in 2005

...ople in the high risk group , such as school going kids ,health care personnel, and globe trotters and travellers,to comply with taking requisite immunisation against this highly infectious disease .Currently the vaccination rates against measles is about 90% in the U.S. MST...

How to Bell the Fat? –Most U.S Citizens Concerned, Reveals Surve

...adults between the ages of 20-74 and 17 percent of kids between 2-19 years are overweight or obese. Dr. Leonard Wartofsky, president of The Endocrine Society, said in a prepared statement, 'Clearly, Americans recognize the obesity epidemic facing this country and our children. However, the poll shows tha...

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