Research shows Indigenous children don’t need number words to count
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Child Health News According to a new international study, ...
Archive for the ‘Pediatrics / Children's Health’ Category
Child Health News According to a new international study, ...
Boys more likely to grow out of asthma
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Child Health News According to researchers in the U.S. ...
Top Sydney hospital appoints specialist to treat childhood obesity
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Child Health News As Australian children appear to be ...
Councils in Britain suggest obese children should be taken into care
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Child Health News The suggestion that children in Britain ...
Being outdoors good for children’s eyesight
Friday, August 15th, 2008Child Health News Australian researchers have found that children ...
Poor Physical Control Linked To Obesity
Thursday, August 14th, 2008A study published on bmj.comreports that an increased risk of obesity later in life isassociated with poor physical control and coordination duringchildhood. These findings, suggested by Walter Osika and ScottMontgomery (Orebro University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden), are yetanother piece of evidence that correlates type 2 diabetes in adults,obesity, and poor cognitive ...
Medical Defence Union Advice Line The First Call For Members, UK
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Disclosing information about a child to an estranged parent; whether to inform the police that a patient with diabetes was continuing to drive despite being warned not to; and a patient refusing treatment following a paracetamol overdose were just some of the 25,000 calls to the Medical Defence Union (MDU) ...
Indonesian Children In Violent Communities Helped By School-Based Mental Health Program
Thursday, August 14th, 2008According to new research published in JAMA,children in Indonesian communities affected by political violence whoreceived a school-based intervention had reductions in post-traumaticstress symptomsand were more likely to maintain hope. The international team ofresearchers also found, however, that the intervention failed to reducetraumatic stress-relatedsymptoms, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, or functionalimpairment."Mental health ...
Breastfeeding Varies Dramatically By State In Initiation And Duration, USA
Thursday, August 14th, 2008States in the West and Northwest had higher breastfeeding initiation estimates than other parts of the United States. Using data from a nationally representative study of 33,121 children from six to 71 months, researchers attempted to account for the wide state variations of breastfeeding rates in the United States and ...
Pre-school eating habits affect school performance later on
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Child Health News New research from the UK is ...
Being outdoors good for children’s eyesight
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Child Health News Australian researchers have found that children ...
Redesigned West Virginia Medicaid plan restricting benefits for more than 90% of child beneficiaries, report states
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Child Health News West Virginia's redesigned Medicaid program is ...
Clumsy at seven - obese at 30
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Child Health News According to new research children who ...
Infant sensitivity to negative emotional expressions develops at around six months
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Child Health News Scientists working in the Academy-funded Research ...
The effect of childhood dairy intake on adolescent bone health
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Child Health News Dairy is recognized as a key ...
