Challenging the long-standing belief that breast-feeding equally protects all babies against disease, research led by Johns Hopkins Children's Center investigators suggests that when it comes to ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children is strikingly similar in clinical presentation and treatment responsiveness to OCD in adults. While treatment is commonly effective for OCD not all ...

  Premature babies can need extra healthcare through childhood A third of babies born between 29 and 33 weeks still need specialist care aged five, a French study suggests. Pregnancies should ...

NEW YORK. Parents and doctors may overlook constipation as the cause of acute stomach pain in children, but constipation may account for most of the abdominal pain among kids, a study shows. Nearly ...

In recent weeks, over-the-counter cough and cold medications for children have received unprecedented attention from regulators, physicians, the media, and parents. This scrutiny represents a ...

Respirology 2007; 12: 692-699 Children who live on a farm have a lower risk of developing asthma than children living in an urban or rural non-farming environment, Canadian research shows. ...

SUMMARY This study examines the effect of victim age, victim attractiveness, the victim's abuse history and respondent gender have on attributions of blame and credibility towards a female victim in ...

Extremely low birth weight premature infants who received breast milk shortly after birth, while still in intensive care units, had greater mental development scores at 30 months than did infants who ...

After summer holidays, miracle-diet adherents stick to these diets to lose the weight gained in the last months in record time. Gyms also become overcrowded with people making a final sprint of ...

Pediatr Pulmonol 2007; 42: 723-728 One-third of preschool children in the USA and Europe suffer from asthma-like symptoms, data from a large, telephone survey suggest. These asthma-like symptoms ...

WASHINGTON, DC, August 31, 2007— As schools reopen around the country, a new study finds that parents and teachers should pay attention to alcohol prevention starting as early as fourth grade. “A ...

Restless legs syndrome is a common problem in children 8 years of age and older in the United States and the United Kingdom, according to a new report from an international team of researchers. ...

Structural adaptations of bone to changing mechanical loads have recently been documented during adolescence. However, little is known about how bone adapts structurally during the earlier years. ...

In past centuries, infant mortality in the first year of life was described as the greatest plague.1 Infants in the 21st century continue to be plagued by high rates of hospitalization, and ...

A nutritional supplement known as Sprinkles, which can be added to children's food, reduces anemia by more than half, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Nutrition. Cornelia ...