Children's health
10 Jul 2007
Fever After Smallpox Vaccination Tied to Individual Genetic Variations
St. Louis researchers have identified common DNA variations that underlie susceptibility to fever after smallpox vaccination. Their finding is the first to link individual differences written into the genetic code with a vaccine-related complication – albeit a mild one. Most of the eight genetic alterations the scientists identified increased the…
Blood
09 Jul 2007
Children With Sickle Cell Get Extra Vaccine Benefit
A childhood vaccine known to protect against the bacteria that causes ear infections and pneumonia may well be a lifesaver for children with sickle cell disease. Researchers at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and colleagues at other institutions found that pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), known commercially as…
Children's health
09 Jul 2007
PCV Cuts Pneumonia Hospital Admissions in the US
Routine infant immunization with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) has caused a 39 percent fall in all-cause pneumonia hospital admission rates for American children under 2, according to a Vanderbilt study. Carlos G. Grijalva, M.D., M.P.H., research assistant professor in Vanderbilt’s Department of Preventive Medicine, along with colleagues in the Vanderbilt…
Children's health
06 Jul 2007
Low Maternal B12 Levels Affect Foetuses
Pregnant women with low levels of vitamin B12 have three times the risk of delivering babies with neural tube defects, according to a new study led by a University of Toronto researcher. “In a population-based, case-control study of more than 500 pregnant women in Ontario, we found the risk of…
Children's health
06 Jul 2007
Parents: Watch What You’re Putting in that Sippy Cup
Juice boxes look harmless enough, with those kid-size, bendable straws and promises of 100 percent vitamin C. As healthy as juice seems, parents need to be wary of doling out too much to children, especially during the summer when kids need plenty of fluids to stay safe, a University of…
Children's health
06 Jul 2007
Children with Both Autism and ADHD Often Bully, Parents Say
Researchers caution against labelling children with autism as bullies. Children with both autism and attention deficit or attention deficit hyperactivity disorders are four times more likely to bully than children in the general population, according to a study released in the journal Ambulatory Pediatrics. However, the researchers caution against labelling…
Children's health
06 Jul 2007
World First Investigation into the Effects of Burns Trauma on the Heart
Dr Jenny Paratz, a research scientist within the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital’s Burns, Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre, along with burns surgeons, intensive care doctors and cardiologists, is beginning a study into a previously underdeveloped area of burns research relating to myocardial dysfunction in patients who have suffered…
Children's health
03 Jul 2007
Premature Infants Do Not Seem to be Predisposed to Food Allergies
Premature infants do not have an increased risk of developing food allergies than normal-birth-weight infants, according to new research in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI). The study, “The risk of developing food allergy in premature or low-birth-weight children,” can be found online at www.jacionline.org. The JACI is…
Blood
03 Jul 2007
Study Suggests Other Causes for Childhood Brain Aneurysms
A new University of Cincinnati (UC) study questions the commonly held scientific belief that childhood brain aneurysms are caused by trauma, infection or underlying vascular malformations. In a retrospective review of 53 Ohio children with intracranial (brain) arterial aneurysms, Todd Abruzzo, MD, found that the most common type of aneurysm…
