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Teens think they have asthma under control, but benefit from new approach to treatment

Teens think they have asthma under control, but benefit from new approach to treatment

Two studies that offer new insights to help adolescents and younger children improve their asthma control will be presented by…

08 May 2008

Researchers find gene location that gives rise to neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer

Researchers find gene location that gives rise to neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer

Using advanced gene-hunting technology, an international team of researchers has for the first time identified a chromosome region that is…

08 May 2008

Steroids provide no survival benefit for children with bacterial meningitis

Steroids provide no survival benefit for children with bacterial meningitis

Corticosteroids given to children who are hospitalised for bacterial meningitis do not provide a benefit in survival or in reduced…

08 May 2008

Vegetarian Diets

Vegetarian Diets

Vegetarians are people who exclude animal meat from their diet. A vegetarian diet comprises mainly of fruits and vegetables. There are a number of health…

08 May 2008

Researchers have found a link between gluten and brain damage

Researchers have found a link between gluten and brain damage

Gluten is damaging our brains! Paediatrician, gastroenterologist, allergist and author, Dr Rodney Ford has found a link between gluten and brain…

05 May 2008

1 in 10 children using cough, cold medications

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…

04 May 2008

New treatment could reduce chronic lung disease in premature babies

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…

30 Apr 2008

Factors affecting survival, disability of extremely premature infants identified

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,…

30 Apr 2008

Researchers light up lungs to help diagnose disease

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…

29 Apr 2008