Children's health
24 Aug 2007
No Hiding for Child Abusers
People who shake children hard enough to cause brain damage may soon be unable to hide behind false defences in court, thanks to new University of Queensland research. Researchers from the University of Queensland have conducted tests on a true-to-life model of a baby to show exactly how shaking damages…
Children's health
24 Aug 2007
Teen Diets Can Hurt Their Lungs
For most teenagers in the United States and Canada, fish and fruit are not high on their delicious list. Also, many of them – about 20 percent of those under 18 – cough, wheeze, and suffer from asthma and bronchitis. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have…
Children's health
24 Aug 2007
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Health Differences in Newborn Girls and Boys
Two new studies seek to understand why death rates for female infants are higher after heart surgery and why female donor livers may be less effective for transplants. For generations, girls have whimsically been said to be made of “sugar and spice and everything nice,” and boys from “snakes and…
Children's health
21 Aug 2007
Novel Drugs Relieve Attacks of Swelling in Hereditary Angioedema
An investigational drug called ecallantide (also known as DX-88 significantly relieves attacks of a rare, life-threatening disease called hereditary angioedema, report researchers from Children’s Hospital Boston and 25 other study sites. The placebo-controlled trial was published in the August issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. A second…
Children's health
21 Aug 2007
Language Barriers Put Patients at Risk for Wrong Prescriptions
Nearly 52 million Americans speak a non-English language at home, and 23 million Americans have limited English proficiency (LEP). Language barriers can result in adverse consequences in health care, but little is known about whether pharmacies provide sufficient care to patients with LEP. In the study, “Language Barriers to Prescriptions…
Bone
21 Aug 2007
Stress Fracture Risk in Active Adolescent Girls May Be Hereditary
For active teen girls and young women, heredity may be more important than the type of sports or exercise they engage in as a risk factor for stress fractures, according to the study, “Family History Predicts Stress Fracture in Active Female Adolescents.” Stress fractures are bone defects resulting from repeated…
Children's health
21 Aug 2007
When is the Right Time to Leave the Hospital After Giving Birth?
There is no “one size fits all” answer to readiness for discharge after delivering a baby. The “Life Around Newborn Discharge” (LAND) study is the first ever to examine the decision-making of over 4,000 mothers and their paediatricians and obstetricians about postpartum discharge and to identify which factors most related…
Bone
21 Aug 2007
Arthritis and Physical Activity
Exericse is good for people with arthritis. It increases bone and muscle strength, stimulates weight loss and reduces arthritic joint pain.
Children's health
14 Aug 2007
Gastroenteritis
Gastroenteritis (gastro or stomach flu) from Rotavirus infection causes diarrhoea and dehydration in children. It can be prevented with vaccination.
