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The Kids Therapy Center focuses on mental health of rural ch...

UNDERWOOD Some might look at it as playing in a sand box, but at The Kids Therapy Center, it is a form of exercising mental health. Sand tray therapy is one of the many forms of therapy that can be found at The Kids Therapy Center, which [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

N.J. receives $17M in federal funds as bonus for ensuring ch...

TRENTON — New Jersey's efforts to ensure more children have health coverage have earned it a nearly $17 million performance bonus from the U.S. Health Department. The federal government said today this is the third year New Jers [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Children's health insurance program seeing steady increases

As hard times and high unemployment rates continue across the country, a program that aims to cover all uninsured children and teens in Pennsylvania has seen steady growth regionally and across the state. The Children's Health Insu [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

On the health beat: Early gifts hearten child care advocates

Efforts to reform early-childhood education in Minnesota appeared to be fizzling earlier this year. The business group leading the charge to improve child care -- and boost the number of kids ready for kindergarten -- was preparing to shu [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Cochlear implant problems rare in children: Study

Problems with cochlear implants for deaf children are rare, with only some three percent of children who got the implants at one hospital needing new ones because of technical problems, Canadian researchers said. Their report, in the A [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Junk food companies use loopholes to advertise to children

Food companies including Kellogg's, Rowntree and Cadbury set up websites with games, cartoon characters and videos aimed at children. They also use social networking sites such as facebook Facebook and Twitter and even email children [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

3,663,626 children to be vaccinated in KP: Official

PESHAWAR: As many as 3,663,626 children under five-year of age would be vaccinated in three days polio eradication campaign, which will kick off simultaneously in 17 districts of Khyber Pakthunkhwa from Monday. In Fata, anti-polio drops w [...]

Posted On : Dec, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Children's Health Initiative marks 10 years in Santa Clara C...

Ten years ago, at least 16 percent of all children in Santa Clara County did not have any health insurance; today that figure is less than 4 percent thanks to the Children's Health Initiative. CHI, which celebrated its 10-year anniver [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Parents Unaware of Children' Weight, Study Says

Childhood obesity is definitely a problem that should be addressed as early as possible, in order to stop it from growing out of control. Pediatricians are supposed to track if youngsters are putting on too many pounds — but a [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Study: Fewer children in U.S. lack health insurance

MIAMI – Even with more children living in poverty because of the rough economy, the number of children without health insurance in the U.S. has dropped by 1 million in the past three years, according to a report released Tuesday by [...]

Posted On : Dec, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

WHO links child mortality to economic crisis

The World Health Organisation warned on Saturday that only a stronger political commitment to child health could prevent a dangerous rise in mortality rates at a time of global economic turmoil. WHO Director General Margaret Chan told the [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Children good reason to control diabetes?

CHILDREN are an excellent reason for controlling one's diabetes, admitted a mother and employee of the Ministry of Health (MoH) during an event to commemorate World Diabetes Day (WDD) 2011 in Brunei recently. Hamimah Hj Lamat, 37, [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Get kids into school at age 2; study says children and the e...

An early childhood education study is recommending publicly funded preschool education for all Canadian kids beginning at age two. The report — authored by Margaret McCain, Dr. Fraser Mustard, who died last week, and Kerry McCuaig & [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Your Children's Health

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHBLI), a government panel that’s part of the National Institutes of Health, has issued new recommendations on reducing the risk for cardiovascular disease in children. Parts will be no [...]