Children's health
14 Apr 2008
Asthma deaths spike
New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that the Australian asthma death toll jumped in 2006, with an additional 84 deaths being recorded compared to 2005 data. The total number of deaths attributed to asthma in Australia in 2006 was 402. The greatest increase in deaths occurred in…
Children's health
14 Apr 2008
Gene mutations found in many children with abnormally thick heart muscles
Most children with unexplained thickening of the heart muscle, called idiopathic cardiac hypertrophy, actually have a genetic mutation that affects cells that help the heart to contract, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School in a report that appears online in the New England Journal of…
Children's health
14 Apr 2008
Board discusses colours advice
The Food Standards Agency Board, at its April open meeting, discussed the possible effects of certain food colours on children’s behaviour and agreed advice to Ministers to help inform the UK’s negotiating position in Europe on this issue. This discussion took place following the publication last September of research into…
Children's health
09 Apr 2008
Children at highest risk from obesity struggle with change
A new study shows that children with obesity-related diabetes are reporting serious difficulties in making basic lifestyle changes that could save them from a lifetime of complications. The study of 103 adolescents (ages 12 to 21) with type 2 diabetes, most of whom are overweight, shows many children and teens…
Children's health
08 Apr 2008
Family Therapy (Family Focused Therapy)
Family therapy: Family therapy, sometimes called family focus therapy or family systems therapy, is a type of psychological therapy that works to change the relationships…
Children's health
07 Apr 2008
Late to bed, late to rise – teenagers prefer to function as night owls
Getting teenagers out of bed is no easy task. Numerous studies indicate that at the onset of puberty, adolescents become more ‘evening typed’, preferring later bedtimes and wake times. In the Journal of Adolescence, a report by Swinburne researchers Dr Suzanne Warner, Dr Greg Murray and Dr Denny Meyer details…
Children's health
07 Apr 2008
Exactly how much housework does a husband create?
Having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women, according to a University of Michigan study of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families. For men, the picture is very different: A wife saves men from about an hour of housework a week. The…
Children's health
07 Apr 2008
Mother-child attachment, children’s temperament play a role in terrible 2 conflicts
Stories about the "terrible twos" abound in parenting lore. New research published in the March/April 2008 issue of the journal Child Development finds that the way mothers and their 2-year-olds relate to each other affects the quality but not the frequency of conflicts when children are two, and that children’s…
Children's health
07 Apr 2008
Bullying is a relationship problem
Students who bully tend to have difficulties with other relationships as well, a new study from Queen’s and York University shows. Early targeting of the young people’s relationships, such as those with their friends and parents, may help in prevention of persistent bullying problems later on, says psychology professor Wendy…
