Children's Health

Possible cure of fatal childhood skin disease
Cancer 04 Jun 2008

Possible cure of fatal childhood skin disease

Physicians at the University of Minnesota and University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview have set the path to a cure for a young boy’s fatal genetic skin disease, recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB), by using a cord blood and bone marrow transplant. Nate Liao, a 25-month-old from Clarksburg, N.J., underwent…
Children’s consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages
Children's health 03 Jun 2008

Children’s consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages

A recent study published in Pediatrics and led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are an increasingly large part of children and teens’ diets. Teens who consume SSBs, which include sodas, fruit drinks and punches, and sports drinks, drink an average…
Survivors of childhood hodgkin’s lymphoma at higher risk of future health problems
Blood 01 Jun 2008

Survivors of childhood hodgkin’s lymphoma at higher risk of future health problems

Adults who survived childhood Hodgkin’s Lymphoma should be especially vigilant about cancer and cardiovascular screenings, according to researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues. Reporting at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago today, Sharon Castellino, M.D., a pediatric oncologist, said a…
Mum’s behavior key to dad’s involvement in child care
Children's health 01 Jun 2008

Mum’s behavior key to dad’s involvement in child care

Mothers play an important role in determining how much fathers get involved in taking care of their infants, according to new research. In fact, this encouragement was important even after taking into account fathers’ and mothers’ views about how involved dads should be, the overall quality of the couple’s parenting…
Addressing the issue of obesity with a loved one
Children's health 30 May 2008

Addressing the issue of obesity with a loved one

Weight is an extremely important issue in western society with the rates of obesity ever growing. Being overweight is linked to numerous health problems including high blood pressure, heart disease and even cancer. From a medical point of view, this means that weight is a big issue. Our views on…
New breathing exercises help manage asthma
Children's health 29 May 2008

New breathing exercises help manage asthma

A presentation that demonstrates breathing exercises designed to help reduce the use of asthma inhalers is today available to the general public for free from the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Asthma and Airways website. The 40 minute production is in response to a research paper on the management of…
New vaccine approach prevents/reverses diabetes in lab study
Children's health 29 May 2008

New vaccine approach prevents/reverses diabetes in lab study

Microspheres carrying targeted nucleic acid molecules fabricated in the laboratory have been shown to prevent and even reverse new-onset cases of type 1 diabetes in animal models. The results of these studies were reported by diabetes researchers at the John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh…
FDA warns consumers against using mommy’s bliss nipple cream
Children's health 26 May 2008

FDA warns consumers against using mommy’s bliss nipple cream

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use or purchase Mommy’s Bliss Nipple Cream, marketed by MOM Enterprises, Inc., because the product contains potentially harmful ingredients that may cause respiratory distress or vomiting and diarrhoea in infants. The product is promoted to nursing mothers to help…
Excess weight in adolescence linked to childhood eating patterns
Children's health 26 May 2008

Excess weight in adolescence linked to childhood eating patterns

Research suggests that the weight of adolescents is related to the types of food they ate as children. A study undertaken by Associate Professor Lynn Moore at the Boston University School of Medicine showed that 13 year olds who consumed low levels of dairy foods from age 3 until age…