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- CHILDREN OBESITY: -Study links quality of mother-toddler relationship to teen obesity
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The quality of the emotional relationship between a mother and her young child could affect the potential for that child to be obese during adolescence, a new study suggests. ...
- PNEUMONIA: -THE MANAGEMENT OF AIR POLLUTION INDOOR: -TECHNICAL CHANGES. -Wood stove intervention can reduce childhood pneumonia
NIH-funded study shows 30 percent decline in severe cases Cooking stoves with chimneys can lower exposure to indoor wood smoke and reduce the rate of severe pneumonia by 30 percent in children ...
- PEDIATRIC INFECTOLOGY & INFLUENZA b VACCINATION: -Study finds shifting disease burden following universal Hib vaccination
NOV. 11, 2011] Vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib, once the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in children, has dramatically reduced the incidence of Hib disease in ...
- PAEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE: -Experts in pediatric palliative care to discuss challenges in this emerging field
BOSTON -- When children are facing a life-threatening illness, bringing in palliative medicine specialists can help both the child and family improve the child's quality of life, for however ...
- WINTER SPORT: -Sledding injuries: a significant cause of hospitalizations, injuries during winter months
BOSTON – In new research, 30 percent of children hospitalized following a sledding injury suffered significant head injuries, and 10 percent of these children had a permanent disability. ...
- TRAUMA IN CHILDREN: -Minority children less likely to wear a car seatbelt, putting them at greater risk of severe injury
BOSTON -- Less than half of pediatric car passengers suffering injuries from motor vehicle crashes were restrained, with the lowest rates among blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, according to ...
- ASTHMA: -Researchers question key quality measure for asthma
AURORA, Colo. -- Researchers studying the first national quality measure for hospitalized children have found that no matter how strictly a health care institution followed the criteria, it had ...
- CHILDREN POISONED MEDICATION: -Number of children poisoned by medication rising dramatically, study says
The number of young children admitted to hospitals or seen in emergency departments because they unintentionally took a potentially toxic dose of medication has risen dramatically in recent years, ...
- PEDIATRY: -Study finds an increase of children accidentally poisoned with pharmaceuticals
Cincinnati, OH, September 16, 2011 -- Pharmaceutical poisoning remains a common childhood injury, despite years of concerted prevention efforts, such as improved safe guards on packaging. Over half ...
- PEDIATRIC-HIV — a neglected disease?
The results of the HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00074581) study were released this past May, 30 years after the first publication about U.S. cases of what would ...
- HYPERCALCEMIA INFANTILE IDIOPATHIC: Mutations in CYP24A1 and idiopathic infantile hypercalcemia
Vitamin D plays a central role in calcium homeostasis and bone metabolism.1 Vitamin D supplementation or food fortification for the prevention of rickets is advocated routinely for all infants. ...
- ENDOCRINOLOGY & PRIMARY CARE: -The continuing health burden of congenital hypothyroidism in the era of neonatal screening
Biochemical screening of neonates for congenital hypothyroidism (CH), followed by appropriate treatment, results in the disappearance of overt intellectual disability among those affected by ...
