HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Children with sickle cell disease experience more life-threatening complications from the H1N1 swine flu than from seasonal flu, a new study has found.
[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:48:31 GMT]
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HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of bowel surgery for children with Crohn's disease is much lower than reported in previous studies, according to new findings.
[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:48:27 GMT]
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Reuters - Wearing a programmable wristwatch could help children manage their daytime bladder control problems, a new study suggests.
[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:24:26 GMT]
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LiveScience.com - Officials in Contra Costa County, California are using RFID (radio frequency identification) technology to track some 240 preschoolers as part of a new Head Start program to keep the children safe and to make better use of its teachers. But the plan is not going over well with some privacy groups.
[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:20:50 GMT]
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Reuters - An estimated five million uninsured children in the United States were eligible for Medicaid or the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but were not enrolled in either plan, according to a new report.
[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:01:50 GMT]
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Reuters - Two agencies investigating claims that Procter & Gamble Co's Pampers Dry Max gave children severe diaper rash reported Thursday that they have found no specific cause linking the diapers to rashes.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:17:02 GMT]
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Reuters - Pakistan's displaced flood victims say a lack of clean water and high temperatures are causing illnesses sweeping through relief camps with children most at risk.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:38:17 GMT]
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Reuters - A cell phone text message -- and the buzz or beep that signals its arrival -- may not help a woman remember to pop her birth control pill, a new study suggests.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:33:16 GMT]
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AFP - A two-year-old Indonesian boy who smoked about 40 cigarettes a day has kicked the habit after receiving intensive specialist care, a child welfare official said Thursday.

[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:06:33 GMT]
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Time.com - A new study suggests that a few simple questions from health care providers can protect women whose partners want to force them to have children, known as reproductive coercion
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:30:00 GMT]
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Reuters - Women should only have a cesarean delivery if there is a medical reason for it, and doctors should not switch a vaginal birth to a cesarean section sooner than recommended, conclude the authors of a new study.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:22:54 GMT]
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Reuters - India has halved the number of women who die during childbirth, but experts warned on Wednesday a lack of facilities is likely to stop the country from meeting global goals for improving maternal health before 2015.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:27:28 GMT]
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Reuters - Nearly 100 million children in China will be vaccinated against measles this month to help eliminate the disease, a leading cause of avoidable death and disability in developing countries, the WHO said on Wednesday.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:39:35 GMT]
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HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- The nation's leading group of pediatricians has issued a strong policy statement directed toward pediatricians, parents and the media on the danger of messages American teens and children are getting about sex from television, the Internet and other media outlets.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:48:32 GMT]
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Reuters - Full-term babies born a bit on the early or late side are at higher risk of cerebral palsy, according to a new study in nearly 1.7 million Norwegian children.
[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:15:37 GMT]
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) -- All children and adolescents 6 months of age and older should receive the annual trivalent influenza vaccine this flu season, according to updated recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:48:21 GMT]
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) -- High school-age athletes are more likely than younger kids to have sports-related concussions, but the rate of such injuries in both groups is on the rise, a new U.S. study suggests.
[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:48:18 GMT]
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Time.com - A new study suggests that young children possess a skill many adults assume they lack: they are able to judge when a human behavior is statistically probable versus when it is unusual.
[Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:35:00 GMT]
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Reuters - When it comes to treating very short kids with growth hormone, some doctors may be just as swayed by their own attitudes about being short as by data, suggests a new study.
[Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:24:09 GMT]
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Reuters - Kids who suffer concussions should be cleared by a doctor before they start playing sports again, and parents and coaches should be aware that young athletes take longer to recover than college and professional athletes, according to a new report in Pediatrics.
[Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:15:25 GMT]
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