Study Finds Moderate Hypothermia A Safe Treatment For Traumatic Brain Injury In Kids
A first-of-its-kind multi-center trial has shown that cooling the body can have positive affects on children who suffered traumatic brain injury. The study's lead investigator, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh neurosurgeon P. David Adelson, MD, and fellow researchers determined that induced moderate hypothermia initiated after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a safe therapeutic inte...Pregnancy drugs can affect grandkids
Changes in bird song could be used as an early warning system to detect man-made ecological disturbances, new research published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology has found. Although much previous research has focused on bird song and vocal mimicry, this is the first study to analyse the role played by habitat loss and fragmentation on song-matching. Ecologists...Airborne mold spores increase kids' risk for multiple allergies
University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers say exposure to a certain group of fungal spores--abundant in the air that we breathe every day--can make young children more susceptible to developing multiple allergies later in life. The team found that infants who were exposed to basidiospores and other airborne fungal spores--specifically penicillium/aspergillus and alternaria--early in life...Farm kids almost twice as likely to die from injury as children overall
A new retrospective study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal shows that young farm children, particularly boys, are about twice as likely as the total population of young Canadian children to die from an injury. Brison and colleagues collected and analyzed Canadian data on fatal agricultural injuries to young children to determine rates, identify patterns and devise prevention str...Sir Ken Robinson: Companies, kids "get" innovation, but K-12 doesn't nurture it
Robinson, a senior advisor to the in Los Angele...Study shows that genes can protect kids against poverty
MADISON - For children growing up poor, money isn't the only solution to overcoming the challenges of poverty. According to a new study, the genes and warm support received from parents also can buffer these children against many of the cognitive and behavioral problems for which poverty puts them at risk. The findings are published in the May issue of the journal Child Development....Researchers Scale to assess the Severity of Epilepsy in Kids
Epilepsy in kids is almost a nightmare to their respective parents, that too when it is resistant to the treatment. Researchers identified three factors that may increase a child's risk of having intractable epilepsy - a form of the disease that does not respond to commonly used drugs. Children who have their first epileptic seizure before their first birthday which is also called sympto...Adult Kids Of Alcoholic Mothers Face Health Risk
Adult children of alcoholic mothers face health risks, say researchers.Researchers led by Rosa Alati from University of Queensland's School of Population Health// tracked alcohol-related disorders of children through adulthood as part of one of the world's longest health studies, reports science portal EurekAlert. They studied 2,551 Brisbane mothers and their children at six month...Kids More Prone To Mosquito Bites
Children are more vulnerable to bites of mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasites, according to a study. Each year, malaria kills about two million people around the world, most of them children under five. //The disease kills more than one million children - 2,800 per day - each year in Africa alone, according to World Health Organisation (WHO). Researchers led by David Smith,...HIV kids helped by zinc -study
Supplementation of Zinc with Anti-retroviral drugs for children’s with AIDS was found to reduce deaths due to diarrhea in HIV infected children’s //and also found to enhance the immune system which helps to fight against the virus. The study was conducted by Physician Moss and his colleagues from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland and the study results published...Toni Braxton Can’t Have More Kids Due to Pericarditi
London: Rich and famous celebrity soul music singer Toni Braxton wants a baby girl, but is afraid her heart might not be able to cope with a third Toni Braxton as she has pericarditis//. Since giving birth to her second son with husband Keri Lewis in 2003, Braxton has been diagnosed with pericarditis - a potentially fatal heart condition. She fears the condition will kill her if she pl...