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Iowa participates in national children's study

Polk County will start enrolling eligible women for a national study on children's health next month. The National Children's Study is the nation's largest long-term study on children's health. It aims to track 100,000 ch [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Link Found Between Medicaid Reimbursement and Childhood Flu ...

A study published online today in the journal Pediatrics says that increasing the amount that physicians are reimbursed by Medicaid for administering influenza shots may raise vaccination rates among poor children.The study, conduc [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Children's health must be priority year-round

October is National Children’s Health Month, but we really shouldn’t need a designated month to make us more aware of the health of our children. Is my child eating properly? Is my child getting enough exercise? Is my ch [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Temple Street support for Children's Hospital

Donal Walsh, Chairman of the Children's University Hospital Temple Street, has restated his organisation's support for building the new National Children's Hospital adjacent to the Mater Hospital in Dublin's city centre. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

PC use 'could lead to child mental health issues'

Children that spend more than two hours a day at a PC or watching TV could suffer from mental health problems. Research by the University of Bristol, which has been published by Pediatrics revealed that while sitting in front of a [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Children’s Mental Health Information Hard to Find, Survey Sh...

Although most Canadian parents are concerned about their children’s mental health, they cannot find a definitive source of information to learn more about the related issues, according to a survey released just before Mental Health [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Rutgers Children’s Health Summit On Dec. 3 Aims To Fight The...

Members of the media should contact Kathleen Morgan, chair of the Family and Community Health Sciences Department of Rutgers Cooperative Extension, at (732) 932-5000, ext. 604, or Peter Gillies, director of the New Jersey Institute [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

Children's health rests on us all

Our kids are too fat and too passive. They spend too much time watching television or playing video games. They don't eat the right foods and use tobacco products. The end result? Too many children with too little energy, too little [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

L’chaim to children’s health reform

It’s been an exhilarating week for parents, kids and pediatricians like me! On September 23rd, several provisions from the Affordable Care Act went into effect that will immediately improve the health and well being of our children [...]

Posted On : Oct, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Louisiana has earned since christ was born” on the Children’...

For the third year in a row, Louisiana has earned a "D" on the Children's Health Report Card from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Associate Executive Director Peter Katzmarzyk says that although there have been n [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

H-E-B supports children's health

An H-E-B grocery store, like life, is full of choices, some healthy, some not so. The company made a healthy choice that could affect the lives of children across Texas by expanding its Excellence in Education Awards to include a Fit Cam [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Women, children's health forgotten in development: India

The world as a whole made substantial gains in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) but progress is uneven and short of expectations, most notably in the fields of gender empowerment and children's health, Indian Foreign [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Lawmakers: Children's Health Insurance Enrollment Low

Houston-area state legislators say 114,000 Harris County children are eligible for government-sponsored health insurance, but are currently not enrolled. The lawmakers launched an initiative to help families apply for the Children's [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Children's health keeps FLOTUS up at night

First Lady Michelle Obama discussed the need to improve childhood obesity rates and promote a healthy lifestyle at a young age with attendants of today’s plenary session of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 2010 P [...]