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Children's health program loses millions due to tobacco-tax ...

A tobacco tax loophole in President Obama's children's health-insurance program cost the government more than $250 million in its first year, public health officials say. The loophole allowed companies to avoid huge tax inc [...]

Posted On : Jun, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

10% of children too fat

One in three children in Beijing are overweight, a report by the municipal government has shown, a trend that worries health professionals. The report, based on physical examinations of nearly a million children over two semesters, found [...]

Posted On : Jun, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Timely vaccination better for children's development

A new study shows that timely vaccination has better outcome for children's development than delaying immunization, according to media reports Tuesday. Some parents have requested alternative immunization schedules recently out of co [...]

Posted On : May, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Solving the Mental Health Crisis for Our Children

When I was a child in Plains, everyone knew everyone else in town. Church and school were the center of our community and were strong and positive influences on my life and those of my siblings and friends. So much has changed since then [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

Obese children being bullied can lead to depression, lonelin...

Obese children being bullied can lead to depression, loneliness and anxiety: A new study that states obese children are more bullied in comparison to thinner children. Bullying obese children can lead to depression, loneliness and an [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Kids Deserve a Break Today: Parents, Health Experts, Childre...

After close to fifty years of hawking fatty food directly to kids, Ronald McDonald is being urged to retire. A new report and national poll released today by Corporate Accountability International finds that close to half of the public f [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Nearly third of children globally are couch potatoes

From Argentina to Zambia, Regina Guthold of the World Health Organization in Geneva and her colleagues found most children aren't getting enough exercise and it made no difference if they lived in a rich or a poor country. " [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

Children's Health Tip - Avoid the Flu

You may not think the flu is a big deal, but each year, about 20,000 children under 5 are hospitalized and 100 die from it. That’s why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends that all kids between 6 mont [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Rise in marriages between cousins ‘is putting children’s hea...

The dangers of marriage between first cousins are to be highlighted by a leading professor, with a warning that their children are at risk of genetic defects. Baroness Deech, a family law professor and crossbencher, will call next week f [...]

Posted On : Mar, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Klobuchar chairs hearing on efforts to improve children's he...

Chairing a Senate Environment and Public Works hearing today (Wednesday, March 17), U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar highlighted the heightened environmental risks facing children and called for the development of a coordinated strategy to improv [...]

Posted On : Mar, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Grant for Wyo children's mental health treatment

Wyoming has been awarded a federal grant to help improve treatment of children with serious behavioral health disorders. The children involved are enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. The CHIP pr [...]

Posted On : Mar, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Children's health numbers available for review in book

The West Virginia KIDS COUNT Fund has been publishing data books broken down by county for 20 years to raise public awareness of the importance of early childhood development. Recently, the 2009 W.Va. data book was released, and Jefferso [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Europe vows to cut environmental risks to children's health

Parma, Italy - Europe's 53 member states of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday pledged to implement national programmes aimed at providing equal health opportunities to children in their countries by 2020. In a final [...]

Posted On : Mar, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Protecting children's health in a changing environment

The health impacts of environmental risk factors - inadequate water and sanitation, unsafe home and recreational environments, lack of spatial planning for physical activity, indoor and outdoor air pollution, and hazardous chemicals - ar [...]