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Exercise video games may add to kids’ activity: study
• Children's Health • • Physical activity -exercise • Mar 15 14
Giving children active video games to play while they follow a weight management program boosts their moderate and vigorous activity levels, according to a…
Breastfeeding past two years linked to infant tooth decay
• Children's Health • • Dental Health • Mar 15 14
Breastfeeding is credited with a long list of benefits, but one downside of extended and intensive breastfeeding may be a higher risk of cavities…
TV time linked to less sleep for kids
• Children's Health • • Sleep Aid • Mar 12 14
The more television children watch, the less total sleep they’re getting, according to a small Spanish study.
Researchers found that a nine-year-old who watched…
Inadequate sleep predicts risk of heart disease, diabetes in obese adolescents
• Children's Health • • Heart • • Obesity • • Sleep Aid • Mar 05 14
Obese adolescents not getting enough sleep? A study in today’s The Journal of Pediatrics, shows they could be increasing their risk for developing diabetes,…
Playing with Barbie dolls could limit girls’ career choices, study shows
• Children's Health • Mar 05 14
In one of the first experiments to explore the influence of fashion dolls, an Oregon State University researcher has found that girls who play…
Passive smoking causes irreversible damage to kids’ arteries
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 04 14
Exposure to second-hand smoke in childhood causes irreversible damage to children’s arteries - increasing their risk of heart attacks or strokes when they grow…
Bedroom TVs tied to weight gain among kids: study
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Mar 04 14
Putting a television in a child’s bedroom may be setting them up for excess weight gain over the next few years, suggests a new…
Food allergy nearly doubles among black children
• Children's Health • • Allergies • • Food & Nutrition • Mar 03 14
Children’s food allergies are gradually increasing, but they may be as much as doubling among black children. According to a study published today in…
Most Children Unaware of Cigarette Warning Labels
• Children's Health • • Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 27 14
An international study of children’s perceptions of cigarette package warning labels found that the majority of children are unaware that they exist. Children in…
Breast-feeding Benefits Appear to be Overstated, According to Study of Siblings
• Children's Health • Feb 25 14
A new study comparing siblings who were fed differently during infancy suggests that breast-feeding might be no more beneficial than bottle-feeding for 10 of…
Children’s Mercy physician leads effort to update AAP policy
• Children's Health • • Drug News • Feb 23 14
With less than half of medications including specific labeling for children, Kathleen Neville, MD, MS, a physician at Children’s Mercy Hospital, recently led an…
Study Shows that Premature Infants Benefit from Adult Talk
• Children's Health • Feb 20 14
Research led by a team at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University has been…
Can avatars bring out the good in gamers?
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Feb 19 14
Taking on the role of a game avatar like the benevolent Superman or villainous Voldemort may influence a person’s behavior after the game is…
Healthy Lunchbox Challenge helps influence healthy eating habits in children
• Children's Health • • Dieting • Feb 18 14
During the school year, 21 million children receive free or reduced-price lunches, yet less than 10% of those children participate in the Department of…
Why tackling appetite could hold the key to preventing childhood obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Feb 17 14
A heartier appetite is linked to more rapid infant growth and to genetic predisposition to obesity, according to two papers published in JAMA Pediatrics…
Years after bullying, negative impact on a child’s health may remain
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Feb 17 14
The longer the period of time a child is bullied, the more severe and lasting the impact on a child’s health, according to a…
Child obesity: Cues and don’ts
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Feb 15 14
Among the multiple factors that can cause obesity is an abnormal neurocognitive or behavioral response to food cues. The brain becomes wired to seek…
Study Highlights Long-Term Effects of Childhood Obesity on Late-Life Health
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Feb 13 14
Childhood obesity rates have nearly tripled in the previous 30 years and researchers are asking the important question of how this epidemic will impact…
EU rules “mean children can’t get life-saving cancer drugs”
• Children's Health • • Cancer • Feb 10 14
Children with cancer are being denied access to potentially life-saving medicines because European Union rules allow drug firms to waive the need to test…
Obese Children More Likely to Have Complex Elbow Fractures and Further Complications
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Trauma & Injuries • Feb 10 14
Pediatric obesity is currently an epidemic, with the prevalence having quadruped over the last 25 years. Children diagnosed with obesity can be at risk…
Flavor-pairing may teach kids to like vegetables
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Feb 07 14
Parents have long poured on cheese sauce, peanut butter and the like to coax kids to eat their vegetables, but a new study suggests…
Rett syndrome genetic variants now available for advance testing, diagnosis & research
• Children's Health • • Genetics • • Neurology • Feb 06 14
Despite the identification of gene mutations in methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) being linked to Rett syndrome (RS), research has been hindered by…
Intervention in first 1,000 days vital to fulfilling childhood potential
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Feb 06 14
Safeguarding the healthy development of the next generation is vital for the long term success of the United Nation’s Millennium Development goals. New research…
Early treatment with AED reduces duration of febrile seizures
• Children's Health • • Epilepsy • • Neurology • Feb 05 14
New research shows that children with febrile status epilepticus (FSE) who receive earlier treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) experience a reduction in the duration…
Stem cells to treat lung disease in preterm infants
• Children's Health • Feb 05 14
Advances in neonatal care for very preterm infants have greatly increased the chances of survival for these fragile infants. However, preterm infants have…