Search Results for 'KIDS'

Child Care Can Help Kids With Depressed Moms

Young children whose moms suffer from depression are at heightened risk for behavioral troubles, but a new study shows that day care may help ease the risk. The effect was seen even when kids were placed in day care for as little as three [...]

Posted On : Jun, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Most kids do okay after almost drowning: study

A decade after the event, most kids reported a similar quality of life as peers without the near-death experience. However, it's important that doctors keep an eye on these patients over the years after the accident, as thinking, memo [...]

Posted On : Jun, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

New Web Site One-Stop Source for Kids and Nutrition

With more than 17% of US children considered obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), nutritional and physical health of children is now more critical than ever. To help famlies get healthier, a Rhode Island compan [...]

Posted On : Jun, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Digital age causing kids health problems

This high-tech digital age could be putting more and more children at risk of health problems; Specifically, eye diseases. Most kids these days spend hours each day on the computer, on cell phones, and watching television. A doctor in [...]

Posted On : Jun, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

McDonald's risking kids' health, say opponents

For nearly 50 years no one has been better at hooking kids on unhealthy food, spurring an epidemic of diet-related diseases than McDonalds, especially their Happy Meals, say more than 550 health professionals and organizations. " [...]

Posted On : May, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Kids Health Fair offers chance to fulfill new requirements f...

School and health-care professionals are frantically working to meet the new statewide mandate that all students entering seventh through 12th grades receive a pertussis booster immunization before they begin the 2011-12 academic year. [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Middle School Intervention Program Helps Kids Stay Healthier

Middle school students who were offered healthier cafeteria food, more physical education and lessons about health choices improved their cholesterol levels and resting heart rates, according to research presented last week at the America [...]

Posted On : May, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

A little waiting may be good for head-injured kids

That's important because researchers still aren't sure whether too many of those x-rays, called computed tomography, or CT scans, might trigger cancer years later. CT scans can help doctors recognize more serious head injuries [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Pediatricians: Toxics Endanger Kids Health

Discussions of toxic chemicals tend to feel pretty abstract. We can't really see these things, after all, and even if someone tries to point out that these chemicals go into the manufacturing of just about everything we consume -- fro [...]

Posted On : May, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Cutting tobacco tax could hurt kids' health

In the recent discussion around the proposed cuts of tobacco taxes in the state of New Hampshire, I have noticed that nobody is talking about the effect such a move might have on our kids’ health. Last year, New Jersey proposed red [...]

Posted On : Apr, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

U.S. Parents Want Kids More Active During School Day: Poll

A new poll finds that almost all parents of young children believe it's important for elementary school kids to get exercise during each school day. However, one-third said their children don't get enough physical activity at sch [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Health Department: Dodgeball No Longer a Risk To Kids’ Healt...

The state Health Department abruptly dumped new regulations this afternoon on what it deemed a day camp after it was heavily criticized for including games like tag, Wiffleball and kickball as posing a “significant risk of injury&r [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

5 Ways Parents May Be Sabotaging Their Kids' Health

In a recent survey sponsored by the YMCA, 9 out of 10 parents of children aged 5 to 10 rated themselves as good or excellent at providing a healthy home environment. But there's something amiss: while 89% of parents think they are pr [...]

Posted On : Apr, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

One in ten Aussie kids unable to perceive the tastes of food

The prevalence of taste disorders in Australian children could be three times above the level defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a major public health crisis, new research has found. In a study published in the journa [...]