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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Holds the Ladle, is Not to Be Blamed If the Child Isnt in Fine Fettle

...with no tabs on their lifestyle. A study of 5000 youngsters revealed that dads who got involved with child management had kids with lower BMI. A mothers parenting style did not do much to address issues of weight in children, according to research by Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the Royal Child...

Pre-kindergarten TB Testing Costs High

...eliminating universal tuberculosis skin testing of youngsters could be redirected toward more cost-effective methods of stopping the spread of the disease, according to Flaherman. Instead, finding and treating adults with tuberculosis would be a better approach to stopping the spread of the disease to children,...

New Study That Small Amount of Teenagers Drinks on a Regular Basis

... certain extent because it is becoming harder for youngsters to get hold of alcohol. Those who never drink at all have go up from 12% in 2005 to 17% in the latest research. Those who drink on a regular basis - at least once a week - cut down from 50% to 44%. On the other hand a third of those who do drink do s...

New Oz Road Safety Campaign Hits Speeding Youngsters Below the Belt

...l of Australia, said that the unique way to target youngsters is laudable and witty....

Concern in Mizoram Over Growing Tobacco-related Diseases

...ave seen a number of cancer patients which include youngsters with lung cancer. And most of them have been smokers. In the urban areas, it is the youth emulating adults and feeling a bit mature when they smoke. The problem is that we generally do not tell our kids not to smoke". In the tribal Mizo society, c...

Video Game Addiction to Be Termed as a Medical Condition

...d probably addicted. Up to 90 percent of American youngsters play video games and as many as 15 percent of them more than 5 million kids may be addicted, according to data cited in the AMA councils report. There are many people who agree with AMAs stand. Many adults say that video game addiction cost them j...

Mental Health of Children on the Decline

...a survey of nearly 8,000 children, also found that youngsters with serious behavioral problems were twice as lik...as classmates to be regular drinkers. One in ten youngsters between the ages of five and 16 has a "clinically recognizable" mental disorder. Levels are higher a...

AIDS No Longer a Death Sentence for South Africa's Children

... AIDS is no longer an automatic death sentence for youngsters in South Africa . Tommy, now a strapping 13-year-o...enager who now wants to serve as an inspiration to youngsters with a similar story. Thea Jarvis, who adopted Tommy after his birth mother abandoned him in a tow...

Pediatric Use of ADHD Drug may Affect Developing Brain

...isorder, can prove harmful if the drug is given to youngsters with healthy brain chemistry. In the course of study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the researchers injected week-old male rat pups with Ritalin twice a day during their more physically active night-time phase. The animals continued rec...

Zambia to Get Anti-AIDS Drug Boost from Global Fund

...swoman said. With current levels of the disease, youngsters in Zambia face a 50 percent life-time risk of dying of AIDS in the absence of treatment, according to United Nations. The Zambian government is also due to sign up to a five million dollar UNITAID programme to finance costly second line antiretrovi...

High Court Upholds Ban on Teenager's 'purity Ring'

...h of "Silver Ring Thing", which claims that 25,000 youngsters have committed to abstinence from sex before marriage....

Indian Minister Laments Country's Lack of Sex Education

...rld the Kama Sutra, have shied away from educating youngsters about such topics as human reproduction. But the minister said education would not provoke promiscuity. "We are not taking up sex education in a blatant manner, but in a subtle way," said Ramadoss. "We don't want to create controversy. But we hav...

Somerville, A Town Committed to Tackle Obesity Among Kids

...f two children, that there was no point in forcing youngsters to go on a diet. Instead she set out to take small steps to change lifestyle in the town. She looked at other societal developments that have had an impact on health - the anti-smoking movement in the US was an example - in the hope that these coul...

Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma

...children who did not have the disease. Asthmatic youngsters were between 60 and 70 percent likelier to have telltale mutations, called single-nucleotide polymorphisms, in their ORMDL3 gene than healthy counterparts. "We are confident that we have discovered something new and exciting about childhood asthma,...

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