Archive for the ‘Pediatrics / Children's Health’ Category
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
New studies conducted by April Benasich, professor of neuroscience at Rutgers University in Newark, and her colleagues reveal that gamma wave activity in the brains of children provide a window into their cognitive development, and could open the way for more effective intervention for those likely to experience language problems.
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
A BYU-Harvard-Stanford research team has identified a molecule that is key to mothers' ability to pass along immunity to intestinal infections to their babies through breast milk. The findings will be published in the Nov. 1 issue of the Journal of Immunology. The study highlights an amazing change that takes place in a mother's body when she begins producing breast milk.
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Lack of sleep, excessive television/computer screen time, stress, gambling, alcohol and tobacco use and other health-related issues are taking a toll on college students' academic performance, according to a study released by the University of Minnesota Boynton Health Service. "Our study shows that there is a direct link between college students' health and their academic achievement.
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Some 2.3 million children a year, mostly from low- to middle-income families, have no health care coverage to pay for preventive or other medical needs, even though at least one of their parents is insured, according to a new study supported by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Center for Research Resources, part of HHS' National Institutes of Health.
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
A new anesthesiology study analysis presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, indicates a possible link between childhood exposure to general anesthesia and an increased risk of behavioral and developmental disorders in young children.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
The U.S., after "five years of stagnation, ... has managed to cut its infant mortality a bit," but that is "no great cause for celebration, especially since this country's rates remain far too high and so many other countries are doing so much better on this important measure of a nation's health and the quality of its medical system," a New York Times editorial states.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
The U.S., after "five years of stagnation, ... has managed to cut its infant mortality a bit," but that is "no great cause for celebration, especially since this country's rates remain far too high and so many other countries are doing so much better on this important measure of a nation's health and the quality of its medical system," a New York Times editorial states.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
October is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month. According to the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH), SIDS claimed the lives of 58 infants in 2007 and is a leading cause of death for Mississippi infants one month to one year old. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) says that all infants should be placed on their back for every sleep period.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Youth on the Nebraska Foster Youth Council will be sharing firsthand stories about how foster care impacted their lives at a public forum. Foster parents will also be on hand to tell their experiences about foster children living in their homes. The forum will take place from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital today presented their vision for the future of medicine in Palo Alto.
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