News tagged with older children


Eating habits and exercise behaviors in children can deteriorate early

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As children transition from preschool-age to school-age, they may develop eating habits and leisure-time patterns that may not meet current recommendations and may contribute to childhood obesity. In a study published in ...





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New gene findings will help guide treatment in infant leukemia

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pediatric oncologists have identified specific genes, dubbed partner genes, that fuse with another gene to drive an often-fatal form of leukemia in infants. By more accurately defining specific partner genes, researchers ...


Chicken pox vaccine reduces shingles risk in kids -- study of 172,000 kids used EHRs

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Herpes zoster, also known as shingles, is very rare among children who have been vaccinated against chicken pox, according to a Kaiser Permanente study in the December issue of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal.


Study links real-time data to flu vaccine strategies

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adaptive vaccination strategies, based on age patterns of hospitalizations and deaths monitored in real-time during the early stages of a pandemic, outperform seasonal influenza vaccination allocation strategies, according ...


Nicotine Levels Higher in Children Exposed to Secondhand Smoke in the Home

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, supports the World Health Initiative’s efforts for a home smoking ban, according ...


Cambodian moms-to-be chew tobacco for nausea (AP)

Cambodian moms-to-be chew tobacco for nausea

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco.


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Down Syndrome becoming more prevalent in the U.S.

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study, aimed at estimating the prevalence of Down Syndrome in newborns, children and teenagers in 10 areas of the U.S., has found an increase in prevalence of more than 30 percent over ...


Death from childhood stroke

Death from childhood stroke

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stroke is an important cause of childhood morbidity and is in the top ten causes of childhood death. For the first time, new research has looked at trends in death from childhood stroke in ...


Loneliness can be contagious

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows.


Scientists reveal malaria parasites' tactics for outwitting our immune systems

Scientists reveal malaria parasites' tactics for outwitting our immune systems

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Malaria parasites are able to disguise themselves to avoid the host's immune system, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...


Mad as hell? New discoveries about the experience of anger

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Younger people, those with children and less-educated individuals are more likely to experience anger, according to new UofT research that examines one of the most common negative emotions in society.



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