Search Results for 'Children'

Children's Dental Care: Maine Better Than Average

The Pew Center on the States has given Maine a grade of "B" for its efforts to provide children with adequate dental care. The policy advocacy group graded all fifty states on eight policy benchmarks it says have been pro [...]

Posted On : Feb, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Peaceful Revolution: Don't Gamble With Children's Health

For the first time in American history, adults do not believe that our nation's children will have the opportunities they had to live a happy, healthy, and prosperous life. And over the past five years, the response from our nation's leader [...]

Posted On : Jan, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Study: Children's health services affected

Hundreds of thousands of South Carolina children are doing without health care, going hungry, coping on their own with mental health problems and lacking intervention for addictions and pregnancies. And in neglecting the needs of chi [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Powerful Special Interests Should Not Trump Children's Healt...

A theologian friend shared the story of taking her car to a Jiffy Lube for servicing. Not having anything to read, she picked up a manual on the coffee table about boating. A chapter on the rules for what happens when boats encounter one an [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

1% of US children affected by autism: study

Autism, a brain disorder that interferes with communication and social skills, affected an estimated one in 110 American 8-year-olds in 2006, according to a federal study released last Friday. The US Centers for Disease Control and Preventi [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Interview Ensuring American children's health

As the debate over healthcare reform rages on in the United States, children's advocates are busy analyzing on how two healthcare bills in the House and in the Senate Finance Committee will affect children of low-income families when a nati [...]

Posted On : Nov, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

World Vision opens children's health clinic downtown Toronto

The World Vision clinic, modeled after a typical African community clinic, will stand in sharp contrast to the now-common sight of parents and children receiving the care they need at Canadian H1N1 flu shot clinics. ozens of local parents a [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Parents asked to inform school of children's health

Besides daily screening of students to detect cases of swine flu, school authorities are now stressing upon educating parents to inform them immediately if their wards are suffering from any flu-like symptoms. HS Mamik, president of the I [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Legislators pull off victory for children's health

As we look back at a legislative session engulfed by an economic downturn, where legislators had to make tough decisions, we can celebrate one true victory. With a last minute legislative deal and a signature by the Governor this past week, [...]