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Although many "[s]ympathetic" politicians and commentators concur with Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's reference to her 17-year-old daughter Bristol's pregnancy as a "normal 'up and down' of family life," teen pregnancy is "far from inevitable" and a "result in part from our inability to talk honestly and wisely about teen sexuality," Amy Schalet, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, writes in a
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| 10/10/2008 04:00 AM |
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For the tenth year, Indiana University School of Medicine and Riley Hospital for Children will host the Molecular Medicine in Action program for Indiana high-school students. The deadline for submitting applications is Friday, Oct. 31.
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| 10/10/2008 03:00 AM |
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The International Children's Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) launches its International Charter of Rights for Children with Life Limiting and Life Threatening Illnesses, The International Children's Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) has published a Charter of Rights for children with life-limiting or life threatening conditions, which they wish to see accepted and ratified by governments and health departments around the world.
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| 10/10/2008 03:00 AM |
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A recent survey by US health authorities suggests that about a quarter of American teenage girls have been vaccinated against HPV, the human papillomavirus, which is estimated to cause most cervical cancers.
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| 10/10/2008 02:00 AM |
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Results of a multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins Children's Center challenge the longstanding practice of treating premature babies with hydrocortisone, a steroid believed to fight inflammation and prevent lung disease. The researchers found that such treatment offers little or no benefit and that low cortisol levels are not even necessarily harmful.
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| 10/10/2008 02:00 AM |
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Existing recommendations for treating vitamin D deficiency in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) are too low to cover the serious need, leaving most at high risk for bone loss and rickets, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.
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| 10/09/2008 02:00 PM |
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The health of children is affected by the education and income levels of their parents, according to a state-by-state study published on Tuesday by the Commission to Build a Healthier America at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
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| 10/09/2008 12:00 PM |
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The largest nationwide survey of children's diet and physical activity in more than a decade has found child obesity has stalled. But according to dietitians, similar data is urgently needed on adults to explain why 25 to 30 per cent more adults are overweight or obese, compared with children. DAA Executive Director Claire Hewat said: 'Our food supply is radically different to 1995, when adults were last surveyed.
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| 10/09/2008 10:00 AM |
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Texas Children's Cancer Center today launched Passport for Care, an innovative Web-based application that provides childhood cancer survivors and their physicians with immediate access to a survivor's diagnosis and treatment history. Passport for Care provides detailed, individualized health care recommendations based on the most up-to-date national survivorship care guidelines. Passport for Care inventor and Texas Children's Cancer Center director Dr.
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| 10/09/2008 08:00 AM |
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The circadian rhythm that quietly pulses inside us all, guiding our daily cycle from sleep to wakefulness and back to sleep again, may be doing much more than just that simple metronomic task, according to Stanford researchers. Working with Siberian hamsters, biologist Norman Ruby has shown that having a functioning circadian system is critical to the hamsters' ability to remember what they have learned. Without it, he said, "They can't remember anything.
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| 10/09/2008 07:00 AM |
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Two separate research teams each have developed techniques for noninvasive prenatal blood tests for Down syndrome that have yet to produce a false negative or a false positive result, the New York Times reports.
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| 10/09/2008 05:00 AM |
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The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG), a national nonprofit medical and scientific professional association, announced that it has received a $13.5 million, 5-year contract from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of a National Newborn Screening Translational Research Network.
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| 10/09/2008 05:00 AM |
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Health professionals from across Australia will meet in Brisbane at a University of Queensland conference focused on prevention and treatment of childhood obesity and eating disorders. The two-day conference, Perspectives on Childhood Obesity and Eating Disorders: from Prevention to Treatment, is hosted by UQ's Children's Nutrition Research Centre.
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| 10/09/2008 05:00 AM |
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Over 31% of U.S. births are now by cesarean section although a 5% to 10% rate is best for mothers and babies. The extra cost is well over $2.5 billion per year. The excess cesareans buy no reduction in maternal and newborn deaths. But they cause unneeded exposure to the dozens of adverse effects more common with c-sections. This is just the most striking example of how health care provided to mothers giving birth exposes them to avoidable harm and expense.
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| 10/09/2008 05:00 AM |
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Researchers in Texas are reporting the first evidence from human studies that perchlorate, a common pollutant increasingly found in food and water, may interfere with an infant's availability of iodine in breast milk. Iodine deficiency in infants can cause mental retardation and other health problems, the scientists note. The study also provides further evidence that iodine intake in U.S. mothers is low and that perchlorate may play a key role.
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| 10/09/2008 04:00 AM |
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International researchers and academics with an interest in preventing childhood obesity will visit QUT later this month for a training course which will showcase some key technologies in measuring body composition, energy expenditure and physical activity. Professor Andrew Hills and his Energy Metabolism Group will host a week-long training course with around 20 attendees from a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
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| 10/09/2008 03:00 AM |
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A new study in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics explores the effects of pollution from livestock facilities on infant health and finds that production is associated with an increase in infant mortality. Stacy Sneeringer of Wellesley College utilized data on spatial variation in livestock operations from the past two decades to identify the relationship between industry location and infant health.
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| 10/08/2008 08:00 PM |
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Like adults, children can suffer from sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) such as snoring or obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). In new research published in the November issue of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, scientists explore the interaction between sleep, breathing, and brain function and find that about two-thirds of children with SDB have some degree of cognitive deficit.
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| 10/08/2008 01:00 PM |
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Recent statistics from Fiji's Health Ministry on Sexually Transmitted Infections are a cause for concern, and the high rate of STIs among people ages 20 to 29 put them at an increased risk for contracting HIV/AIDS, Fiji's Director of Public Health Josaia Samuela said recently, the Fiji Times reports.
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| 10/08/2008 12:00 PM |
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"When it comes to sexuality and a myriad of other transitional health issues," it is "important" that "developing teens ... see their pediatrician as their personal doctor -- not their mother's or father's," Victoria McEvoy, chief of pediatrics of the Massachusetts General West Medical Group and assistant professor at
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| 10/08/2008 12:00 PM |
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Musician Annie Lennox on Monday in Dublin, Ireland, at a two-day forum on HIV/AIDS and children worldwide said that governments should meet aid pledges to support developing countries over the long-term, the Irish Times reports. Lennox said that governments are "notoriously bad at keeping their promises" but that "we must not walk away from the issues.
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| 10/08/2008 12:00 PM |
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There is no evidence probiotics can relieve the symptoms of eczema, but there is some evidence that they may occasionally cause infections and gut problems. These findings from The Cochrane Library come at a time when use of probiotics to treat eczema is increasing. Eczema is an itchy skin condition that affects more than 1 in 20 people at some time in their lives and is especially common in children.
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| 10/08/2008 11:00 AM |
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The US government's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced its first ever guidelines for physical activity for Americans that say adults should have 2.5 hours of moderate physical aerobic exercise a week, and children should have an hour or more of physical activity a day. The new HHS publication is titled "2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans"; it covers all ages, and it can be downloaded from the HHS website.
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| 10/08/2008 09:00 AM |
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At dinner time, parents will often tell their child to clean their plate. However, that old maxim might lead kids to eat more than they need, especially when portions are adult-sized or supersized. In findings presented at The Obesity Society's Annual Meeting on Oct. 7, children took more food when larger portions were made available to them. Jennifer Fisher, Ph.D.
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| 10/08/2008 09:00 AM |
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Could new findings about Rett syndrome lead the way in developing new techniques for unraveling other diseases that affect the brain? October is Rett Syndrome Awareness Month, and over 800 of the world's leading Rett Syndrome researchers, clinicians, organizations and families will meet at the Ma
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| 10/07/2008 07:12 AM |
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American researchers say using a fan in a baby's bedroom while they are asleep lessens the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
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| 10/06/2008 05:13 PM |
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Microwave ovens should be equipped with safety controls to prevent children from opening them and being burned by hot foods and drinks, according to a study published today by University of Chicago Medical Center researchers in the October 2008 issue of the journal Pediatrics.
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| 10/06/2008 05:10 PM |
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A new twist on a well-known cell sorting technique may allow physicians to diagnose rare leukemias in hours instead of weeks, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and UC-San Francisco.
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| 10/06/2008 05:09 PM |
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Use of the influenza vaccine was not associated with preventing hospitalizations or reducing physician visits for the flu in children age 5 and younger during two recent seasons, perhaps because the strains of virus in the vaccine did not match circulating strains, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
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| 10/06/2008 04:23 PM |
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A simple blood test may help detect serious bacterial infections (SBIs) like urinary tract infections and blood stream infections in young infants who come to the emergency department (ED) with fevers that have no clear cause.
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| 10/06/2008 04:05 PM |
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Infants who slept in a bedroom with a fan ventilating the air had a 72 percent lower risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome compared to infants who slept in a bedroom without a fan, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. The study appears in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine.
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| 10/06/2008 07:32 AM |
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According to new research children with asthma whose parents have high expectations for their ability to function normally, are less likely to have symptoms than other children dealing with the condition.
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| 10/02/2008 06:29 PM |
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Approximately 200,000 of the 38 million people in the U.S. who take statins to treat high cholesterol may develop life-threatening muscle disease.
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| 09/30/2008 04:31 AM |
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In an age when many parents are struggling to find a balance between their offspring's out of school activities and their own needs and pleasures, new research has found that as far as middle-class children are concerned, these organized activities are linked to positive outcomes in school, emotional development, family life and behaviour.
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| 09/28/2008 07:09 PM |
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Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a way to quickly and reversibly fine-tune the activity of individual proteins in cells and living mammals, providing a powerful new laboratory tool for identifying - more precisely than ever before - the functions of different proteins.
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| 10/10/2008 06:03 PM |
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HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Brain oxygen levels and blood
pressure may play a role in the complex relationship between
sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and cognitive problems in children, a
U.S. study finds.
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| 10/09/2008 10:48 PM |
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HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 9 (HealthDay News) -- About 25 percent of girls
aged 11 to 17 have gotten the human papillomavirus vaccine known as
Gardasil, which protects against cervical cancer, U.S. health officials
reported Thursday.
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| 10/09/2008 02:54 PM |
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AP - One in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves for the relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said Thursday.
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| 10/08/2008 10:49 PM |
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- For American children, the state
they live in and their family's income and education may help determine
how healthy they are, a new survey shows.
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| 10/08/2008 10:49 PM |
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Children as young as 4 can
develop obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a new study says.
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| 10/08/2008 03:55 AM |
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Reuters - Oral cough and cold medicines sold over the counter should not be used in children younger than 4 years old because of the risk of rare complications linked to inappropriate use, manufacturers said on Tuesday.
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| 10/07/2008 10:48 PM |
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HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Every year, young children suffer
burns when they remove hot liquids from microwave ovens, a new study
finds.
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| 10/07/2008 10:48 PM |
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HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Saying they were acting "out
of an abundance of caution," the makers of over-the-counter cough and cold
medicines said Tuesday that the medicines should not be given to children
younger than 4 years old.
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| 10/06/2008 10:48 PM |
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Although most people think of
young children when they hear about childhood vaccinations, adolescents
need certain booster shots as well as new immunizations.
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| 10/06/2008 10:48 PM |
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Simple changes to hospital
procedures can significantly reduce the side effects children suffer while
on opiates to relieve pain, a new study reveals.
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