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Pilot Study Finds Wireless Guessing Game Motivates Children with Type 1 Diabetes to Improve Blood Gl
• Children's Health • Oct 26 04
What can a guessing game played on a wireless hand-held device do for diabetes management? A lot, according to a pilot study led by…
Physical fitness helps kids’ minds, too
• Children's Health • Oct 25 04
The most physically fit group of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders tend to score highest on an academic test known as the Illinois Standard…
More than gym class, after-school sports help boys
• Children's Health • Oct 18 04
Young boys seem to reap many more fitness benefits from joining an extracurricular soccer team than from standard gym classes, new research indicates.
Spanish…
Baby euthanasia stirs heated debate
• Children's Health • Oct 16 04
Four times in recent months, Dutch doctors have administered lethal doses of drugs to newborns they believe are terminally ill, setting off a new…
U.N. health body warns against “kitchen killer”
• Children's Health • Oct 15 04
Some 1.6 million people, mainly small children, die each year from a “kitchen killer” - disease brought on by inhaling smoke from cooking stoves…
Growth hormone may help children with heart failure
• Children's Health • Oct 14 04
Although it’s rare, children can develop heart enlargement and heart failure, which ultimately makes a heart transplant necessary. Now, researchers report that treatment with…
High blood pressure may be set early in life
• Children's Health • Oct 13 04
Parents’ lifestyle choices may help determine their children’s blood pressure, even before their kids are born, a new study suggests.
UK and Australian researchers…
Metabolic syndrome common in teens
• Children's Health • Oct 12 04
Nearly one third of overweight or obese teenagers have the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of disorders that raise the risk of developing heart disease…
Habitual snoring common in kids
• Children's Health • Oct 11 04
Snoring “frequently or always” is common among school-age children, new findings show.
Moreover, habitual snoring is strongly associated with emotional and behavioral problems and…
Toy-related lead poisoning points to hidden danger
• Children's Health • Oct 07 04
The case of a child who suffered lead poisoning after swallowing a toy pendant should serve as a warning that the toxic metal can…
Parents strongly influence teens’ drinking
• Children's Health • Oct 06 04
Parents who supply alcohol for their teenagers’ parties may be encouraging their children to binge drink when no adult is watching, a new study…
Inactive kids at risk for chronic fatigue later
• Children's Health • Oct 06 04
Children who have the most sedentary lifestyles appear to be at greatest risk of developing chronic fatigue syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), in later…
Tiny preemies may have mental problems later
• Children's Health • Oct 05 04
Young adults who were born at a very low weight may have a higher-than-average rate of some psychological problems, a new study suggests.
Researchers…
Mom’s solvent exposure may affect kids’ development
• Children's Health • Oct 04 04
Children whose mothers worked with organic solvents during pregnancy may be at increased risk of subtle deficits in memory, attention and language skills, a…
Childhood obesity a national crisis
• Children's Health • Sep 30 04
America’s children are fat and getting fatter, and parents, schools, the government, advertisers and the food industry all need to make changes to battle…
Mercury-containing vaccines may help not harm kids
• Children's Health • Sep 17 04
There have been widespread concerns that mercury-based preservatives used in vaccines might impair the neurological development of children, but the opposite seems to be…
Teens often don’t outgrow problem drinking
• Children's Health • Sep 17 04
Teenagers who drink regularly or binge drink occasionally often continue the harmful habit into their 30s, new research reports.
U.S. investigators found that teenagers…
Pneumo vaccination cuts kids’ hospital visits
• Children's Health • Sep 16 04
Giving young children the pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar has had a significant impact on pneumococcal diseases, such as pneumonia and middle ear infections, researchers report.
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With dying kids, parents find truth is best
• Children's Health • Sep 15 04
If you were the parent of a child with a terminal illness, would you talk to him or her about dying? New research reported…
Study identifies risk factors for kids’ snoring
• Children's Health • Sep 13 04
A range of factors, from obesity to frequent infections, may promote chronic snoring in children, a study of German schoolchildren suggests.
Researchers found that…
Chickenpox vaccine saves millions in hospital costs
• Children's Health • Sep 10 04
The recommendation by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in 1995 that all children in the US be given the chickenpox vaccine seems to…
Preemies can have adjustment problems as teenagers
• Children's Health • Sep 09 04
Children born very prematurely continue to have emotional, attentional and social problems during their teen years, according to the results of a UK study.
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Botox helps children with cerebral palsy
• Children's Health • Sep 08 04
Children with cerebral palsy often suffer from uncontrolled drooling, but this can be reduced with an injection of Botox, researchers report
They also found…
Dry-on nontoxic lotion suffocates head lice
• Children's Health • Sep 07 04
A dermatologist in Menlo Park, California, has developed a treatment for head lice that does not use toxic chemicals, and doesn’t require nit removal.…
Kids with fetal alcohol syndrome need stable homes
• Children's Health • Sep 06 04
Children born with fetal alcohol syndrome are less likely to get in trouble with the law or to have behavioral problems in later years…