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Children's Health Headlines
Research Offers Insights Into Addiction - Cocaine And The Teen Brain
When first exposed to cocaine, the adolescent brain launches a strong defensive reaction designed to minimize the drug's effects, Yale and other scientists have found. Now two new studies by a Yale team identify key genes that regulate this response and show that interfering with this reaction dramatically increases a mouse's sensitivity to cocaine...
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Electronic Health Records Alert Pediatricians To Obese Patients
Electronic health records and embedded tools can alert and direct pediatricians so they can better manage the weight of children and teenagers, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published online in The Journal of Pediatrics...
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Faith-Based Advocacy And Childhood Obesity
Faith-based advocacy has been cited as a valuable tool in combating childhood obesity, but evidence is needed to support this assertion and to define how the link between advocacy and policy can contribute to promoting permanent lifestyle changes...
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Ring-Like Protein Complex Helps Ensure Accurate Protein Production
In fairy tales, magic rings endow their owners with special abilities: the ring makes the wearer invisible, fulfils his wishes, or otherwise helps the hero on the path to his destiny...
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Problem Behavior In Toddlers May Be Due To Over-Reactive Parenting
Researchers have found that parents who anger easily and over-react are more likely to have toddlers who act out and become upset easily. The research is an important step in understanding the complex link between genetics and home environment...
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Pediatric Combo Vaccine Linked To Slight Risk Of Febrile Seizure
A study, published in JAMA of almost 400,000 children, showed that children had an increased risk of febrile seizures, a convulsion that occurs secondary to a rapid increase in body temperature on the day of the first and second vaccination, with the combined diphtheria-tetanus toxoids-acellular pertussis-inactivated poliovirus - Haemophilus influenzae type b (DTaP-IPV-Hib) vaccine...
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Migraines In Mothers Linked To Babies With Colic
Research released today, and scheduled to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, April 21 to April 28, 2012, suggests that mothers with a history of migraines are more likely to have babies who have problems with colic. Colic is when a baby cries far more than a normal, healthy infant who might be hungry, need changing or have a little wind...
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Quality Improvement Program Leads To Better Asthma Outcomes And Saves $1.46 For Every Dollar Spent
Nearly 1 in 10 children have asthma, according to government statistics, and in low-income parts of Boston, nearly 16 percent of children are affected...
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Researchers Break Ground In Neonatal Brain Research
In the past few years, researchers at the University of Helsinki have made several breakthroughs in discovering how the brain of preterm babies work, in developing treatments to protect the brain, and in developing research methods suitable for hospital use...
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Link Between Infants' Colic And Mothers' Migraines
A study of mothers and their young babies by neurologists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has shown that mothers who suffer migraine headaches are more than twice as likely to have babies with colic than mothers without a history of migraines...
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Teenagers Should Sleep Seven Hours For Best Test Results
What's better for 16-18 year olds - seven or nine hours' sleep? Apparently, seven-hour sleepers do better academically than their 9-hour counterparts, even though guidelines recommend nine, researchers from Brigham Young University reported in The Eastern Economics Journal. Co-author, Eric Eide, said: "We're not talking about sleep deprivation...
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Childhood Gender Nonconformity Linked To Higher Abuse Risk
Children who do not conform to their gender-expected behaviors and interests are at a higher risk of being abused and facing subsequent traumas, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and Children's Hospital Boston reported in the journal Pediatrics...
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Autism Brain Scan Signs Found At 6 Months Of Age
According to a study published online February 17, at AJP in Advance, a section of the website of the American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered considerable differences in brain development at age six months in high-risk infants who develop autism, than high-risk infants who do not develop the condition. Jason J. Wolff, Ph...
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Discovery May Someday Lead To Prevention And Treatment Of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered that brain cells commonly thought to play a supporting role actually are critically important for the growth of brainstem neurons responsible for cardiorespiratory control...
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Mental Health Identified As A Primary Concern For Canada's Youth
Canadian girls report higher levels of emotional problems and lower levels of emotional well-being and life satisfaction, while boys tend to experience more behavioural problems and demonstrate less pro-social behavior, according to a new Queen's University-led national study of youth health behavior...
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
First Study To Examine Puzzle Play In A Naturalistic Setting Reveals Surprising Results About Girls And Boys
An important context for figuring out problems through reasoning is puzzle play, say researchers at University of Chicago. Psychologist Susan Levine and colleagues recently conducted a study that found 2-4 year-old children, who play with puzzles, have better spatial skills when assessed at 4 1/2 years of age...
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Video Games Improve Eyesight
How we perceive the world tells us a lot about how the brain processes sensory information. At the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver, McMaster University psychologist Daphne Maurer reported on how vision develops in individuals born with cataracts in both eyes...
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Infant Tylenol Recall, Johnson & Johnson
Johnson and Johnson has initiated a voluntary recall of some half a million bottles of infant Tylenol in another round of recalls that follows recent problems with similar products. J&J said in the statement that : "No adverse events associated with this action have been reported to date and the risk of a serious adverse medical event is remote...
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Hospitalization Of US Underage Drinkers Common
Hospitalization for underage drinking is common in the United States, and it comes with a price tag -- the estimated total cost for these hospitalizations is about $755 million per year, a Mayo Clinic study has found. Researchers also found geographic and demographic differences in the incidence of alcohol-related hospital admissions...
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Pediatric Obesity Rates Curbed By Parent-Training Intervention
A UCLA study has found that a new parent-training program is effective in reducing the risk of low-income, preschool-age Latino children being overweight...
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Statement On Critical Methotrexate Drug Shortage By American Society Of Hematology
As the world's largest professional society concerned with the causes and treatment of blood disorders, many of ASH's more than 16,000 members are on the front lines of dealing with the country's severe shortage of methotrexate, a drug critical in the treatment of children with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL)...
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Premature Baby Gets Pacemaker 15 Minutes After Birth
Jaya Maharaj, a baby girl born 9 weeks early with a congenital heart defect was fitted with a pacemaker just 15 minutes after birth. Weighing only 3.5 pounds (1.6 kg), she was delivered by cesarean section at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California, in November last year...
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Malnutrition Threatens Nearly Half A Billion Children
According to a report entitled "A Life Free from Hunger: Tackling Child Malnutrition" by Save the Children, nearly half a billion children are at risk of permanent damage in the next 15 years as a result of malnutrition. Chronic childhood malnutrition has been largely neglected, despite worldwide efforts to address food security...
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Preventing 'Absence Seizures' In Children: New Drugs Show Promise
A team led by a University of British Columbia professor has developed a new class of drugs that completely suppress absence seizures - a brief, sudden loss of consciousness - in rats, and which are now being tested in humans. Absence seizures, also known as "petit mal seizures," are a symptom of epilepsy, most commonly experienced by children...
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Survival In Medulloblastoma Model Extended By Oncolytic Virus
A strain of measles virus engineered to kill cancer cells prolongs survival in a model of medulloblastoma that is disseminated in the fluid around the brain, according to a new study by researchers at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute and the Mayo Clinic...
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
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