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Children's Health Headlines
World's First Stem Cell Drug From Osiris : Approved!
There is great news for parents suffering the harrowing ordeal of their child needing a bone marrow transplant. The announcement came from Osiris Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIR) on Friday that Health Canada has approved its groundbreaking stem cell therapy Prochymal® (remestemcel-L). The drug can be used to treat children with acute graft-vs-host disease. (GvHD)...
Sun, 20 May 2012 11:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Monitoring Fetal Heart Using Bluetooth
Checking the heart of the unborn baby usually involves a stethoscope. However, an inexpensive and accurate Bluetooth fetal heart rate monitoring system has now been developed by researchers in India for long-term home care. Details are reported in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Computers in Healthcare...
Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Sleep Quality Impaired In Children With Epilepsy And Their Parents
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston have determined that pediatric epilepsy significantly impacts sleep patterns for the child and parents...
Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Strict School Physical Education Laws Improve Children's Health
As childhood obesity and diabetes rates are skyrocketing in the US, many schools are eliminating physical education classes. A national study in the American Journal of Public Health reports that specific and required state legislation with regard to PE times could be a crucial tool to ensure that children meet the daily recommendations of physical activity...
Fri, 18 May 2012 11:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Gene Therapy Helps Children With Rare, Incurable Brain Disease
Using gene transfer techniques pioneered by University of Florida faculty, Taiwanese doctors have restored some movement in four children bedridden with a rare, life-threatening neurological disease. The first-in-humans achievement may also be helpful for more common diseases such as Parkinson's that involve nerve cell damage caused by lack of a crucial molecule in brain tissue...
Fri, 18 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Trial Of ALK Inhibitor In Neuroblastoma, Lymphoma
A pill designed to zero in on abnormal genes that drive specific cancers has produced encouraging early results in children with an uncommon but aggressive type of lymphoma, as well as in children with a rare form of neuroblastoma...
Fri, 18 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Simple Task For 6-Month-Olds May Predict Risk Of Autism
A new prospective study of six-month-old infants at high genetic risk for autism identified weak head and neck control as a red flag for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and language and/or social developmental delays...
Fri, 18 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Shared Risk Factors For Child Behavior Problems Revealed For U.S., Great Britain
New research from North Carolina State University shows that the United States and Great Britain share common risk factors that increase the likelihood of behavioral problems in children - and that Britain's broader social welfare programs don't appear to mitigate those risks...
Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Should Children Be Made To Have Vaccines?
Two experts discuss in the journal BMJ whether childhood vaccination should be mandatory in the UK. According to Paul Offit, Chief of Infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, mandatory vaccination is essential to protect those who are vulnerable from infection...
Thu, 17 May 2012 13:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Resiliency During Early Years Can Protect Against Later Alcohol/Drug Use
Resiliency is a measure of a person's ability to flexibly adapt their behaviors to fit the surroundings in which they find themselves. Low resiliency during childhood has been linked to later alcohol/drug problems during the teenage years...
Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Possible Link Between Early Alcohol Use, Alcohol Dependence, Daily Nicotine Use, And Fewer Years Of Educational Attainment
Although various kinds of substance use are associated with reduced educational attainment, these associations have been mixed and may also be partially due to risk factors such as socioeconomic disadvantages...
Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Examining Adaptive Abilities In Children With Prenatal Alcohol Exposure And/or ADHD
Prenatal exposure to alcohol often results in disruption to the brain's cognitive and behavioral domains, which include executive function (EF) and adaptive functioning...
Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Study Of A Pediatric Cancer Finds All Cancer Cells Are Not Created Equal
A study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers suggests that specific populations of tumor cells have different roles in the process by which tumors make new copies of themselves and grow...
Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Idiopathic Toe Walking And Rotator Cuff Surgery Highlighted In May JAAOS
Treatments for Idiopathic Toe Walking Based on Child's Age and Severity of Gait Abnormality Most children develop a normal walking pattern, or gait, by age 2. And while some toe walking - where a child primarily walks on the front of the foot or toes, never touching the heel to the ground - is common, persistent toe walking beyond age 2 may indicate a neurological disorder...
Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Child Mortality Rate Decreased After Prenatal Micronutrient, Food Supplementation Internvention
A study in the May 16 edition of JAMA reveals that survival rates of newborns in poor Bangladeshi communities were significantly improved if their mothers received multiple micronutritions, including iron and folic acid combined with early food supplementation during pregnancy, in comparison with women receiving the usual food supplementation...
Wed, 16 May 2012 13:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Schizophrenia Risk In Kids Associated With Mothers' Gluten Antibodies
Children are nearly 50% more likely to develop schizophrenia later in life if their mothers are sensitive to wheat protein gluten, say researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore...
Wed, 16 May 2012 09:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
The Importance Of Human Breast Milk Ingredient In Gastrointestinal Health
A new University of Illinois study shows that human milk oligosaccharides, or HMO, produce short-chain fatty acids that feed a beneficial microbial population in the infant gut. Not only that, the bacterial composition adjusts as the baby grows older and its needs change...
Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Injuries With Baby Bottles, Pacifiers And Sippy Cups In The US And Related Treatment Required In An Emergency Department
A new study by researchers in the Center for Biobehavioral Health and the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined pediatric injuries associated with baby bottles, pacifiers and sippy cups. Researchers found that from 1991 to 2010, an estimated 45,398 children younger than three years of age were treated in U.S...
Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Toddlers And Batteries, A Parent's Perspective
Anyone who has young children is aware of the problems that ingesting small items can cause to a toddler. It's been the bane of toy manufacturers since toy making began. But with two small children of my own in the house, the issue of batteries, especially the small flat silver ones, that must look particularly appealing to a youngster, is not one I'd ever given too much consideration...
Tue, 15 May 2012 06:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Nearly 1 In 5 Lower-Income Parents Report Costs Forced Their Children To Cut Back On Sports
In an era of tight funding, school districts across the country are cutting their athletic budgets. Many schools are implementing athletic participation fees to cover the cost of school sports...
Tue, 15 May 2012 03:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Groundbreaking Discovery Of Mutation Causing Genetic Disorder In Humans, Birth Defects
Scientists at A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB), in collaboration with doctors and scientists in Jordan, Turkey, Switzerland and USA, have identified the genetic cause of a birth defect known as Hamamy syndrome[1]. Their groundbreaking findings were published in the prestigious journal Nature Genetics...
Tue, 15 May 2012 03:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Greater Diversity Than Expected Found In Children's Brain Tumors
Paediatric brain tumours preserve specific characteristics of the normal cells from which they originate - a previously unknown circumstance with ramifications for how tumour cells respond to treatment. This has been shown by Uppsala researcher Fredrik Swartling together with colleagues in the U.S., Canada and England in a study that was published in the distinguished journal Cancer Cell...
Tue, 15 May 2012 03:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Anti-Epilepsy Drugs May Cause Cognitive Deficits In Newborns
A brain study in infant rats demonstrates that the anti-epilepsy drug phenobarbital stunts neuronal growth, which could prompt new questions about using the first-line drug to treat epilepsy in human newborns...
Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Kids' ER Visits Due To Batteries Double
A new study in the US has found that the number of ER visits by children under the age of 18 to deal with battery-related emergencies has doubled in the last two decades. This figure includes, but is not limited to, incidences of swallowing of button batteries, which have also doubled over the period...
Mon, 14 May 2012 10:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Behavioral Treatment Helps Very Obese Children, But Not Severely Obese Adolescents
Researchers have found that severely obese children respond well to behavioral treatment, but not severely obese adolescents. The study, conducted by Dr. Pernilla Danielsson, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, was presented at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France...
Mon, 14 May 2012 10:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
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