Children's health
04 May 2008
The ‘choking game,’ psychological distress and bullying
Ontario’s youth are experiencing a different kind of high, approximately seven percent (an estimated 79,000 students in grades 7 to 12) report participating in a thrill-seeking activity called the “choking game”, which involves self-asphyxiation or having been choked by someone else on purpose. The 2007 Ontario Student Drug Use and…
Children's health
04 May 2008
Prevention and control of childhood pneumonia
This month’s WHO Bulletin, led by the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP), focuses on the prevention and control of childhood pneumonia. It highlights research on the many aspects that drive this deadly disease and the progress now being made – progress that is a…
Children's health
04 May 2008
1 in 10 children using cough, cold medications
Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center have found that approximately one in ten U.S. children uses one or more cough and cold medications during a given week. These findings will be presented today at the 2008 Pediatric Academic Societies’ and Asian Society for Pediatric Research Joint Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Children's health
30 Apr 2008
New treatment could reduce chronic lung disease in premature babies
A less traumatic way of delivering surfactant, a lung lubricant that premature babies need to help them breathe, could reduce the incidence of respiratory problems they’ll have later, Medical College of Georgia physicians say. The problem is that while surfactant keeps the tiny air sacs inside the lungs from sticking…
Children's health
30 Apr 2008
Factors affecting survival, disability of extremely premature infants identified
Gestational age has long been the factor most commonly used to predict whether an extremely low-birth-weight infant survives and thrives, but four additional factors that can help predict a preemie’s outcome have been identified by the National Institutes of Health Neonatal Research Network, of which Yale is a member. Birth…
Children's health
29 Apr 2008
National infant immunisation week reminds parents of the importance of immunisations
The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will launch National Infant Immunisation Week (NIIW) with events beginning April 19 and continuing through April 26, 2008. Parents, caregivers and healthcare providers will be reminded during NIIW of the benefits…
Cancer
29 Apr 2008
Researchers light up lungs to help diagnose disease
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed innovative technology which illuminates a person´s lungs and helps clinicians identify if they are functioning correctly. The new technology could result in earlier diagnosis of emphysema and smoking related damage, as well as other lung conditions and diseases. Lung diseases are of…
Children's health
24 Apr 2008
Hepatitis Australia
Hepatitis Australia aims to reduce viral hepatitis infection by addressing the needs of people living with hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.
Children's health
24 Apr 2008
Local researchers join international effort to search for the causes of autism
Two thousand families are sought for unique new study Saint Louis University researchers are involved in a multi-site consortium to gather and bank DNA samples from 2,000 autism patients and their families over the next three years. The initiative, called the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC), is the first coordinated effort…
