Breaking news on pediatrics
Statement From American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown On Publication Of FDA Rule Prohibiting Sales And Marketing Of Tobacco To Children published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PDT
The new Food and Drug Administration rule is an important step towards breaking the cycle of addiction and preventing children from developing a deadly habit. Too often, children are swayed by insidious marketing campaigns from the tobacco industry that encourage them to adopt a destructive lifestyle...
NICE Adds Two New Indications To Guidance On Somatropin To Treat Growth Failure In Children published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:00:00 PDT
In final draft guidance published yesterday NICE has recommended somatropin (a synthetic form of human growth hormone) as a treatment option for children who have failed to grow normally due to a condition called short stature homeobox-containing gene (SHOX) deficiency[1], or who were smaller than expected at birth and whose growth has not normalised by the age of four...
Stem Cells Used To Model Infant Birth Defect published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Hemangiomas -- strawberry-like birthmarks that commonly develop in early infancy -- are generally harmless, but up to 10 percent cause tissue distortion or destruction and sometimes obstruction of vision or breathing. Since the 1960s, problematic hemangiomas have been treated with corticosteroids such as dexamethasone or prednisone...
Extreme Obesity Affecting More Children At Younger Ages published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 710,949 children and teens that appears online in the Journal of Pediatrics...
As Reform Hangs In Balance, Policy Benefits Continue To Be Discussed published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT
News outlets report on policy issues the health care reform bills would address. NPR reports on the immediate effects of the proposed health care bill, and that Congressional Democrats are focusing on those benefits in messages to constituents...
Pediatricians Warn Payment System May Force Them To Stop Accepting Medicaid Patients published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT
CNN Money: Doctors are increasingly turning away from accepting Medicaid patients as the payment system - and an increasing number of Medicaid patients - means they're losing money treating patients. In the Atlanta area, this is evidenced by the closing of two pediatric clinics...
Pediatric Surgeons Provide Specialized Care To Haiti's Youngest Earthquake Victims, Call For Continued Help And Surgical Rotation published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
After the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti left thousands of victims in its wake, nearly 20 members of the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) put their lives on hold to travel to Haiti to help its youngest victims. With an estimated 40% of the population of Haiti being under the age of 18, many of the injured were children in need of specialized surgical care...
Breakthrough For Babies Born With Severe Cleft Palates After Experiments At ISIS published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Scientists working on a treatment for babies born with cleft palates have made a promising breakthrough and the first clinical trials are planned for early next year...
Risk Of Child Accidents In The Home published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Targeted and individually adapted information to the parents of small children would reduce the risk of accidents involving children in the home. This is shown by new research from the Faculty of Health and Society at Malmö University in Sweden. It is in the home that most child accidents occur. One common injury that affects small children is burns...
Study Shows Prevenar 13 Is Immunogenic In Young Children Previously Vaccinated With Prevenar published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT
According to results from a Phase III safety and immunogenicity study presented today, Prevenar 13 (Pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine, [13-valent, adsorbed]) was shown to be immunogenic and generally well tolerated in healthy young children who had received at least three prior doses of Prevenar (Pneumococcal Saccharide Conjugated Vaccine, Adsorbed)...
Bailout Stenting Successful Treatment For Infants With Constricted Aortas published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Cardiac interventionalists and surgeons at University Clinic in Leuven, Belgium have achieved successful stent implantation and follow-up coarctectomy in premature infants suffering from aortic coarctation. Full findings are published in the March issue of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, the official journal of The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions...
Dr Miriam Stoppard Speaks On Baby And Child Nutrition, England published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Visitors to a conference on food allergies were given an insight into the life of leading children's doctor and broadcaster, Dr. Miriam Stoppard, at the University of Portsmouth yesterday...
Promise For Improving Hand Function In Teens With Cerebral Palsy: Modified Home Video Game published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Engineers at Rutgers University have modified a popular home video game system to help teenagers with cerebral palsy improve hand functions. In a pilot trial with three participants, the system improved the teens' abilities to perform a range of daily personal and household activities...
Asthma UK Comment On Research Linking Pre-natal Stress And Asthma Development In Young Children published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:00:00 PDT
Leanne Metcalf, Director of Research at Asthma UK, says: 'There is now a broad spectrum of evidence which suggests that the pre-natal environment, including factors such as maternal stress and family history, can influence whether or not a child will go on to develop asthma symptoms...
U.N. Secretary-General Launches Report Aimed At Meeting MDGs By 2015 published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PDT
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "warned on Tuesday that failure to meet" Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets by the 2015 deadline could result in "increased instability, violence, epidemic diseases and overpopulation," Agence France-Presse/Mail & Guardian reports (3/17). At a U.N...
Family Planning Will Not Be Included In Canada's G8 Maternal Health Initiative, Foreign Minister Says published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PDT
"Canada's 'signature' initiative at June's G8 summit - a strategy to improve the health of mothers and young children in poor countries" will not include family planning programs, Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said on Tuesday, the Globe and Mail reports. Cannon said the initiative "does not deal in any way, shape or form with family planning...
Nature News Examines GAVI Alliance's Budget Gap published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PDT
Nature News examines GAVI Alliance's multi-billion-dollar budget shortfall ahead of a donors meeting in The Hague on March 25-26...
Identification Of Key Mechanism That Guides Cells To Form Heart Tissue published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PDT
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a key cellular mechanism that guides embryonic heart tissue formation - a process which, if disrupted, can lead to a number of common congenital heart defects...
Link Between Low Levels Of Vitamin D And Higher Rates Of Asthma In African American Children published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PDT
Researchers at Children's National Medical Center have discovered that African American children with asthma in metropolitan Washington, DC, are significantly more likely to have low levels of vitamin D than healthy African American children. This study supports recent research that suggests vitamin D plays a greater role in the body than just keeping bones healthy...
A Negative Family Environment Is Often Responsible For A Child's Aggressive Behaviour published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PDT
Children who use violence usually come from conflictive families; as has been shown by a number of research studies. The psychologist, Arantzazu Bellido, has reaffirmed this phenomenon for the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country (CAV-EAE)...
Mum Has An Eating Disorder published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PDT
They would love to be perfect mothers. Instead, they feel ashamed and inadequate, and fearful that their children might inherit their eating difficulties. Imagine an ordinary Norwegian home, where Mum is having dinner with her three-year-old son...
State, County Officials Take Action On Abortion-Related Issues published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT
The following summarizes recent action on abortion-related measures in three states. ~ Alaska: Superior Court Judge Frank Pfiffner on Tuesday ordered Alaska Lt. Gov...
Behind A Child With Aggressive Behaviour There Is A Negative Family Environment, According To Conclusions Of PhD Thesis published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT
The PhD thesis was entitled Family context and aggressive behaviour in 8-year-old children. For her research Ms Bellido visited a number of schools in the Basque province of Bizkaia, undertaking questionnaires in 251 families with children of eight years of age. The researcher based her methodology on the ecological model; i.e...
Unaware Of Laws, Many Parents Not Using Booster Seats For Older Children published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
All 50 states have some type of child safety seat law, 28 of which require kids to use child safety seats or booster seats through age 8 to reduce the risk of injuries in car crashes. But the latest C.S...
Childhood Obesity Prevention Is Focus Of Global Nutrition Transition Conference published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT
The obesity epidemic is spreading among children, not just in the US, but worldwide, and preventive measures - with an emphasis on a low fat diet and regular activity - should be implemented during the first two years of life...
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