Children's health
16 Nov 2012
7 minutes a day of 'vigorous' physical activity may be enough for kids
Children need a minimum of seven minutes a day of vigorous physical activity, demonstrates recently published findings by University of Alberta medical researchers and their colleagues across Canada. “If you watch late-night television, or look in the backs of magazines, you’ll see magical ads saying you need just 10 minutes…
Children's health
15 Nov 2012
Helping children with autism
Research Fellow Dr Giacomo Vivanti and his team of researchers at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC) at La Trobe University have successfully profiled children with autism in order to predict how well they will respond to a particular form of developmental therapy. Research Fellow Dr Giacomo Vivanti and…
Children's health
14 Nov 2012
Research shows binge drinking inhibits brain development
Teenagers who binge drink risk inhibiting part of their brain’s development and many are laying the groundwork for alcoholism down the track a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researcher has found. Professor Selena Bartlett, from QUT’s Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), studied the effect excessive binge drinking during…
Children's health
08 Nov 2012
Bed wetting in teenagers
In children, bed wetting is a relatively common problem, with as many as 20% of 5 year olds and up to 10% of 10 year olds experiencing it regularly. Despite the fact that bed wetting is something that most affected children tend to outgrow, this is certainly not the case for…
Children's health
08 Nov 2012
Bed wetting treatments
Statistics show that only 34% of Australian families with a child who wets the bed seek professional help. Instead, they wait for what’s called ‘spontaneous remission’, where the child grows out of bed wetting naturally, something that does eventually occur in many children, but not all. It’s a concerning statistic when you…
Children's health
06 Nov 2012
World-first procedure on unique paediatric patient
Melbourne researchers have performed innovative world-first kidney surgery to cure a unique combination of medical conditions in a 10-year-old boy. Young patient Matthew Gaythorpe is thought to be the only person in the world born with Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease, Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis (ARPKD/CHF) and Narcolepsy. The rare combination…
Children's health
01 Nov 2012
New guidelines to address trauma of childhood abuse
A new set of guidelines launched today aim to help mental health and social service providers better understand the complex effects of trauma on adult survivors of childhood abuse. The guidelines, funded by the Federal Government and developed by Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA), were launched today in Canberra by…
Children's health
31 Oct 2012
Inhaled anaesthesia may affect children's brains more
Stony Brook University School of Medicine researchers have found that children’s brains are more affected by an inhaled aesthetic than an intravenous aesthetic with increased levels of brain lactate. Lactate increases brain activation and may lead to metabolic changes associated with anxiety and delirium. Reported in the November issue of…
Children's health
31 Oct 2012
Autism early intervention found to normalise brain activity
An intensive early intervention therapy that is effective for improving cognition and language skills among very young children with autism also normalises their brain activity, decreases their autism symptoms and improves their social skills, a nationwide study has found. The researchers said the study is the first to demonstrate that…
