Archive for the ‘Family Health’ Category
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Child drowning cases rise, especially among those under age of 5.The report by Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that child drowning cases rose from 267 between 2002 and 2004 to 283 between 2003 and 2007. Most of cases occur among those aged from 1 to 4 and mainly when children ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
University of Alberta Educational Psychology PhD student Lindsey Leenaars has completed a study that assessed what types of high school students are being indirectly victimized. This includes being involved in emotionally damaging scenarios such as receiving hurtful anonymous notes, being socially excluded, or having rumours spread about them, including threats ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
California has more teenage girls pregnant as the teen birth rate increased in the state in 2007, after 15 years of decline.A report by Public Health Institute examined teen birth rate in 2007 for those aged from 15 to 19. This teen age diapason is estimated by Department of Public ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Study, focusing on teenagers and their sexual health shows oral sex is no substitute for vaginal intercourse.Today the Guttmacher Institute released the results of recent research that breaks the myth that teens are substituting oral or anal sex for vaginal intercourse in order to continue to claim they are still ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Cyberbullying, using the Internet, cell phones, or another type of communication technology to hurt or embarrass others, is an increasingly common problem among today's youth. In a recent study conducted by the National Crime Prevention Council and Harris Interactive Inc., more than 43% of teens ages 13-17 have experienced cyberbullying ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
New research finds that minority children and adolescents who visit the pediatric emergency department more often receive diagnoses of severe mental health disorders than their white peers.“Diagnostic decisions may have a significant influence on the course of one’s mental health care. Emergency services is in a critical position as it ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Health problems long considered adult conditions and caused in large part by lifestyle factors are rapidly afflicting children and leading to a surge in pediatric use of prescription drugs to treat these ills.New research released today by Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MHS) shows that the number of children taking ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
GlaxoSmithKline announced the approval by European regulators>influenza vaccine, but these figures will be clear after a major outbreak of the disease.
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Congress embarked in a new direction aimed at helping working Americans when leading members of US House of Representatives announced a slate of legislation aimed at simplifying and updating arcane US health, labor and tax laws. The legislation, titled the American Families Agenda, contains policy reforms that have long been ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Teenage girls of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds still experience sexism and sexual harassment?- but cultural factors may control whether they perceive sexism as an environmental problem or as evidence of their own shortcomings. A study of 600 girls between the ages of 12 and 18, from California and Georgia, ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Your kids are doing it and you can't stop them! That's a fact that most parents still can't catch up with. However, now there is new help for both sides. The new video web site Time4Facts.com has combined expert classroom education with parental involvement at home to come up with ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Our homes, schools, playgrounds and neighborhoods are riddled with preventable asthma triggers that leave millions of children gasping for air. But a new report released today by PolicyLink and The California Endowment lays out a plan for what we all can do to make our children's air safer and healthier.The ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
When a loved one is having surgery, the hours of waiting for news can be agonizing for family members. A University of Virginia Medical Center nursing research group has found that during this anxious time, a simple one-minute phone call can make a difference in decreasing anxiety for family members ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Programs that promote household cleaning, home repairs and parental awareness of lead hazards are not effective at protecting children from exposure to this poison, according to a new review of studies.The review looked at interventions that attempted to reduce lead exposure for children and found that “none that have been ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Our homes, schools, playgrounds and neighborhoods are riddled with preventable asthma triggers that leave millions of children gasping for air. But a new report released today by PolicyLink and The California Endowment lays out a plan for what we all can do to make our children's air safer and healthier.The ...
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