Youngsters in Medical News

Exercise Helps Overweight Youngsters Learn

It boosts the mind and the body, study shows FRIDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Three months of daily, vigorous exercise can improve overweight kids' thinking, U.S. researchers report. Physical activity can also lower their diabetes risk, reduce their body fat, and strengthen their bones, s...

Save the Children to Help Youngsters Impacted by California Wildfires

Special Feature: Tips for Parents on How to Help Children Cope WESTPORT, Conn., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Save the Children, a humanitarian agency that responds to disasters and works to improve the lives of children around the world, is deploying a team of crisis experts to assi...

New Oz Road Safety Campaign Hits Speeding Youngsters Below the Belt

Australian road safety campaigners have decided to approach the problem of young speedsters in a rather unique fashion, as a new TV campaign has tried to tackle the problem by hitting them right below the belt by showing young women wiggling their little fingers at fast riders. The New Sou...

More Youngsters Get Tuberculosis

A growing number of youngsters are contracting tuberculosis, especially those in their 20s, due to poor health from irregular// living and excessive weight loss, according to a report. Last year about one fifth of tuberculosis patients were people in their 20s. According to the report...

Hypertension, Prehypertension in Youngsters Linked With Heart Enlargement

Hypertension and prehypertension in adolescents and young adults was associated with a higher risk of having an abnormally enlarged heart//, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. In a study of American Indians, average age 26.5, those with hypertension ...

Movies Influence Youngsters To Drink

Young adolescents are increasingly taking their example from movies, and starting to experiment with alcohol at a very early age. A research// study has measured the influence of alcohol use in movies and, using data from more than 600 films and 5,000 students, found that movies play a significant...

Calcium-rich Diet Good For Youngsters

Youngsters who forego calcium-rich foods because they think they're fattening are mistaken, say researchers based on findings of a recent study .// Researchers say 9-year-old girls who consumed diets high in calcium were no more likely to put on additional pounds than kids the same age who ate...

Mobiles As Addictive As Smoking In Youngsters

New research finds that mobile phones are as addictive as cigarettes among young people. Psychologist Dr David Sheffield, the lead author of the research //said that the constant habit of being attached to their mobile phones was causing stress among youngsters. His study found that one in se...

Headspace to the Rescue of Mentally Ill Youngsters

A program called Headspace is being introduced by the Federal Government in Australia to provide early intervention and treatment for youngsters whose mental// ailments have been largely glossed over or ignored. Establishment of 30 centres across the country in cities and rural spots will ens...

South Africa: AIDS, A Major Cause Of Death Of Youngsters

The HIV-AIDS pandemic is one of the major causes of death among South Africa's young people, aged between 20 and 44, Government has said. // Head of Policy Co-ordination and Advisory Service (PACS) at the Presidency Joel Netshitenzhe said they had conducted research and found that there was s...

Elders Too Are Keen To Chat On Internet On Par With Youngsters

According to a recent online survey, aging in no way deter the elders from chatting or surfing the Internet and said that they too are keen in using the net on par// with the youngsters. The survey conducted by the Internet and Mobile Association of India with Crosstab Marketing Services has r...

Chinese NGO To Popularize Sex Education For Youngsters

A largest NGO in China is all set to propagate a new method of sex education for youngsters throughout the country. // Xi Xiaoping, vice president with the China Family Planning Association, said: 'Puberty and child-bearing age have arrived earlier in recent years, but sex education is lagging ...

Young Kids' Screen Time May Raise Blood Pressure

...ars old. For seven days, the children wore a special device that recorded their activity levels. In addition, their parents reported how much time the youngsters spent watching TV, playing video games, painting, sitting or doing other low-level activities. The researchers also measured the children's height,...

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Heart Risk Factors in Kids

...getting enough MONDAY, Aug. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Most American youngsters aren't getting enough vitamin D, and that deficiency is associated with an ...was a clear association with cardiovascular risk factors. The 25 percent of youngsters with the lowest levels of vitamin D were 2.36 times more likely to have hig...

Stroke in Children Rare But Costly

... U.S. study finds pricetag hits $42 million a year THURSDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) -- Strokes in American youngsters under the age of 20 cost at least $42 million a year, a new study finds. The incidence is not high -- between two and four per 100,000 young people...

For Kids, Two Languages Can Be as Easy as One

... Bilingual youngsters become 'more flexible learners,' researcher says THURSDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) - European researchers are contesting the assumption th...

Mothers of children with autism have higher parental stress, psychological distress

...s about her job or life in general but may or may not be confident about her parenting. The study included 73 mothers and their children 51 of the youngsters had an autism spectrum disorder and 22 had developmental delays. The families were part of a larger study exploring the neurobiology and developmenta...

Kids With Type 1 Diabetes Often Overweight

... Study explores weight problems faced by youngsters with the disease THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Children ...nding is from a major study that explored the weight problems faced by U.S. youngsters with type 1 diabetes, a less common form of the disease that usually shows ...

Cystic Fibrosis Treatment May Cause Hearing Loss

... Ear evaluation urged for youngsters taking common antibacterial medication THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- A common antibacterial treatment for cystic fibrosis can cause...

For Kids With Leukemia, Radiation May Be Safe to Skip

...t now were being treated with systemic chemotherapy or chemotherapy administered intrathecally (through a lumbar puncture). They were compared with 56 youngsters who had been treated with prophylactic cranial radiation for ALL. The five-year remission rate for the chemotherapy-only group was 90.8 percent, vs...

Don't Get Lazy About Lawn-Mower Safety

...k behind you first. Never start the mower in the garage. Also, refuel outdoors with the motor turned off and while the engine is cool. Don't allow youngsters to adjust mower blade settings. Wait for mower blades to stop completely before detaching the grass catcher, clearing the discharge chute or crossin...

Toilet Training Goes High Tech

..., Wyndaele said. "There's overall very little research in this area," he said. "We wanted to see if this would work." The team picked 39 healthy youngsters at several Belgian day care centers. The kids, who were 18 to 30 months old, were chosen for their relative maturity and readiness to begin toilet tra...

ADHD Drugs Linked to Sudden Death in Kids

...mation also suggests that physicians request a thorough family history of heart problems and sudden deaths and perform a physical exam before starting youngsters on these medications. Gould said the FDA approached her and her colleagues to try to assess the true prevalence of this problem. The researcher...

Keep Safety in Mind While Cooling Off in the Water

... youngsters need extra vigilance near pools, beaches and hot tubs, experts warn SUNDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) -- Summertime brings pool parties, la...

Dr. Philip A. DeFina of International Brain Research Foundation Joins Montgomery Academy Board of Trustees

...autism spectrum disorders which affect Montgomery Academy students and many youngsters in our state." Montgomery Academy delivers individualized instruction,...stricts in eight New Jersey counties. Its mission is to support and nurture youngsters who have emotional, behavioral and learning challenges that have not been m...

Summer Fun Need Not Be Hazardous

... SUNDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) With school out (or about to be), youngsters are probably going to be spending less time sitting at a desk and more tim...and install window guards on all windows above the first floor. Don't allow youngsters to play on balconies or roofs or near open windows that don't have some sor...

Special Ed Services Lacking for Kids Who Repeat a Grade

... Majority of youngsters not given individual education plans, research shows THURSDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- Many elementary school students who are held bac...

Say Cheese With Milk

...a 2006 report by the Dental Health Foundation, by the time children are in kindergarten, more than 50 percent already have had tooth decay. When these youngsters reach third grade, that number increases to 70 percent. That's why the California Milk Processor Board (CMPB) - the creator of GOT MILK? - has partn...

Technology, Caffeine Keeping Teens Awake

...ching TV after 9 p.m., and one-third said they sent text messages after 9 p.m. Fifty-five percent were online after 9 p.m. Fifteen percent of the youngsters said they only slept three to five hours per night, while 62 percent reported getting six to eight hours nightly. Just 20 percent slept 8 or more hour...

U.S. Cancer Death Rates Continue to Fall

... with cancer is now 80 percent, up from only 58 percent for those diagnosed in the mid-1970s. But cancer is still the second leading cause of death in youngsters aged 1 to 14 (after accidents), with leukemia being the most common cancer diagnosed. And in a special section, the report finds that cancer surviv...

Kids With Disabilities Benefit From Marianjoy Golf Camps

...amps to be held at Oak Meadows Golf Course in Addison, Illinois. Marianjoy therapists and golf pros will lead a week of one-hour sessions to introduce youngsters to the game. Each session offers individualized instruction on the proper mechanics of the golf swing and putting, and movements are adapted to each c...

Combo Treatment Eases Wheezing in Babies

...y appear in the May 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine . Bronchiolitis is a common illness in very young children. About one in three youngsters in Western countries will have at least one episode of wheezing before turning 3, according to information in an editorial in the same issue of the jo...

Bullying Seems to Affect Kids Years Later

...alth and development since birth, and the children had undergone yearly physical and psychological assessments since age 7. About 46 percent of the youngsters experienced bullying at ages 8 or 10. As their neared 13, about 14 percent of the children had broad psychosis-like symptoms (one or more symptoms sus...

Legion Demands 'Courage' From Legislators in Battle Over Children's Home

... courage to speak and act plainly on behalf of the youngsters at the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's H... courage to speak and act plainly on behalf of the youngsters at the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Children's Hom...democratic, and clearly not in the interest of the youngsters and families served by the ISSCH. "I can assu...

More Low-Income Kids Are Getting Vaccinated

... but as an example, in 1997, the federal poverty level for a family of 5 was $24,744, according to the study. The study included more than 232,000 youngsters living in low-income households between 1995 and 2007. The researchers found that timely immunizations were up for every vaccine type, except for ...

TV Time May Not Be Benign

...it behavior problems. In fact, aggressive behavior was more than doubled in youngsters who regularly watched more than two hours of television daily. And, the...tudied watched more than two hours of TV a day. More than 40 percent of the youngsters had their own TVs in their bedrooms. "I recommend removing the TV from t...

Hispanic Children More Likely to Have Hearing Loss

... Second study finds rare eye disease missed, mistreated among urban youngsters FRIDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) -- Children from Hispanic or low-income families are more likely to have hearing loss, and a serious but...

Anesthesia in Youngest Kids May be Linked to Learning Disabilities

...fore studying this." Prior animal studies have suggested that anesthesia drugs might affect the developing brain. One study last year found that youngsters under the age of 3 who had hernia surgery showed almost twice the risk of behavioral or developmental problems later compared to kids who hadn't had s...

Southern California Parents and Kids Take Healthy Steps in Tackling Childhood Obesity

...rt shows that more than three million California children -- or one-in-three (33%) -- are considered overweight or obese, while only about one-in-four youngsters (28%) make the grade in terms of meeting or exceeding state physical fitness standards.() "There has been progress on this important public hea...

Fewer Teens Sniffing Glue, Household Products

...dministration, which sponsored the study. "If parents do not perceive the dangers and their children dismiss them, there will be more tragedy and more youngsters who die from sudden sniffing death or become addicted to inhalants." Ed Jurith, acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, sai...