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Joining Up for Women's and Children's Health

Today at a high level meeting, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, will review progress made since the launch a year ago of the Global Strategy on Women's and Children's Health. For Clara Muchimba, the midwife at [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Kids' mental-health requests soar

The number of children seeking intensive, in-home mental-health services in Virginia more than doubled in June, just before new state requirements took effect to better screen who really needs the help. The rush for state approval of t [...]

Posted On : Sep, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Charity warns of risk to children

Hundreds of millions of children around the world are at risk of dying from preventable diseases because they are never seen by a health worker, a report has said. According to research by charity Save the Children, more than 350 million [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Kids seriously ill after Adelaide Show petting zoo visit

Two cases of the Shiga-E.coli (STEC) infection and one case of Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS) have been reported in children who attended the recent Royal Adelaide Show. Two of the three children - all aged between 4 and 12 years - had [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

At last, some good news for African children

Critics of foreign aid have always liked to portray Africa as the hopeless continent, a sinkhole for aid, where foreign donations disappear without a trace. But new data show just how wrong this assumption has become. While sub-Sahar [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

`Formula doesn`t keep kids from gaining weight`

Kids who were fed on formula for the first few months of life gained just as much weight up to age ten as those who were exclusively breastfed, according to new research from Germany. It has been unclear just what effect breastfeeding, [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Leading children’s health expert to head UF department of pe...

An international expert on pediatric endocrinology, developmental biology and the prevention of brain injury in preterm infants has been tapped to lead the University of Florida College of Medicine department of pediatrics and serve as th [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Study casts wider net for risky blood pressure in kids

More kids than previously thought could be at risk for dangerously high blood pressure, with as many as a quarter having blood vessels that look like those of much older people, according to a new study. Because there is a theoretical pos [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Smoker's kids have more ear infections

Kids whose parents smoke are more likely to get ear infections and have hearing problems, according to a new review paper. When moms lit up, kids were also almost twice as likely to need surgery for recurrent ear infections or similar pro [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Milwaukee child hospitalized with measles, health department...

A Milwaukee child is hospitalized with a confirmed case of highly contagious measles, the Milwaukee Health Department reported Wednesday afternoon. The child is a refugee whose family moved to the city at the end of August, according t [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Kids tend to bunk school if there’s a smoker at home

“Among children aged 6 to 11 who live with smokers, one quarter to one third of school absences are due to household smoking,” said lead researcher Douglas Levy of the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at MGH. “On a [...]

Posted On : Sep, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Obese kids have more asthma flare-ups

Shaving off extra pounds might help asthmatic kids prevent flare-ups of the disease, according to a study that found obese children have a harder time controlling their symptoms. The work is the first to show that even after taking race a [...]

Posted On : Sep, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Child health experts' tips for quake's emotional aftershocks

Some children barely noticed the earthquake that rattled the East Coast Tuesday. Youngsters on summer break have been known to rattle a few windows themselves, after all. And while kids are resilient, some may also need reassurance and co [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Health Shocker: Unhealthy Moms Have Unhealthy Kids

It's fairly obvious that the children of sick parents are more likely to get sick themselves, but a new study found that this is true even when genetic factors are ruled out. Among disadvantaged families, the children of sick mothers [...]