News tagged with young children
Child burn injuries down significantly (w/ Video)
Oct 05, 2009 |
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In the next 60 seconds, another child will be on his/her way to the hospital to be treated for serious burns; it happens more than 300 times a day in this country. Now, one of the largest studies ever done ...
Study: Bath time falls injure thousands of children annually (w/ Video)
Jul 13, 2009 |
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A new national study finds kids are being hurt in bathtubs and showers at a surprising rate.* You might think scalding or near drownings would be the most common threat in the bathroom, but they're not.
Parents key in new measure to evaluate language in children with autism
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 10, 2009 |
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A new parent questionnaire, developed at the University of Waterloo, will help health practitioners to more accurately gauge the acquisition of language skills in children with autism.
Learning a second language is good childhood mind medicine, studies find
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Teaching young children how to speak a second language is good for their minds, report two Cornell linguistic researchers.
Picky preschoolers: Young children prefer majority opinion
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 13, 2009 |
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When we are faced with a decision, and we're not sure what to do, usually we'll just go with the majority opinion. When do we begin adopting this strategy of "following the crowd"? In a new report in Psychological Science, a jour ...
Steroids ineffective in young children with wheeze
Feb 23, 2009 |
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New research involving medical experts at The University of Nottingham has found that steroid tablets do not reduce the symptoms of virus-induced wheezing in pre-school children.
Misuse of Vicks VapoRub may harm infants and toddlers
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Vicks® VapoRub®, the popular salve used to relieve symptoms of cough and congestion, may be harmful for infants and toddlers. New research appearing in the January issue of Chest, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Colleg ...
Wait times for surgical repair of hernias among infants and young children
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Longer wait times for surgical repair of inguinal hernias in infants and young children under the age of 2 were associated with more emergency department visits and a greater risk of incarcerated hernia, found a study published ...
Study finds young children can develop full-blown OCD
Sep 30, 2008 |
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A new study by researchers at the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center has found that children as young as four can develop full-blown obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and often exhibit many of the same OCD characteristics ...
Parents should limit young children's exposure to background TV
Jul 15, 2008 |
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Despite the fact that pediatricians recommend no screen media exposure for children under age 2, three-quarters of very young children in America live in homes where the television is on most of the time, according to research. ...
Vaccinated infants well-protected against severe pneumococcal infection in Norway
Jul 09, 2008 |
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In 2006, a pneumococcal vaccine (Prevenar®) was introduced in the childhood vaccination programme in Norway. Two years later, the experiences have been published in the journal Vaccine. The results show a strong decline in ser ...
