Children's Health News

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Incorporating a rapid response team of experts at a children's hospital can cut rates of patient deaths, heart attacks and respiratory arrests outside the intensive care unit, a new study suggests.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A young, trim farmer with four or more children: According to a new study, that's the ideal profile for American men hoping to reach 100 years of age.

Reuters - Paediatricians are urging governments in Asia to bolster national immunization programs with vaccines against the rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhoea in young children.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Black children with diabetes face a death rate twice as high as that for white children, new U.S. government research shows.

Reuters - Children with skin allergies may be allergic to oat proteins commonly found in skin products, study findings suggest.

AP - Crucial parts of brains of children with attention deficit disorder develop more slowly than other youngsters' brains, a phenomenon that earlier brain-imaging research missed, a new study says.

Reuters - Children who are on the path toward obesity have some worrisome cardiovascular disease risk factors as young as age 7, according to researchers tracking early childhood weight fluctuations.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- While the connection between a child's weight and the amount of sleep that child gets may not be immediately apparent, new research has found a strong correlation between the two.

AP - Here's another reason to get the kids to bed early: More sleep may lower their risk of becoming obese. Researchers have found that every additional hour per night a third-grader spends sleeping reduces the child's chances of being obese in sixth grade by 40 percent.

AP - "Arthur" and "Barney" are OK for toddler TV-watching. But not "Rugrats" and certainly not "Power Rangers," reports a new study of early TV-watching and future attention problems.

Reuters - Obese children who lose weight through diet and exercise may become stronger and more agile in the process, a study shows.

Reuters - Watching too much television may not only help make children fat, it may also raise their blood pressure, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- The emergency defibrillators now commonly found in airports and other public places that have saved thousands of adult cardiac arrest victims can also save the lives of children.

AP - The country's leading pediatricians group is making its strongest push yet to have all children screened for autism twice by age 2, warning of symptoms such as babies who don't babble at 9 months and 1-year-olds who don't point to toys.

Three months of daily, vigorous exercise can improve overweight kids' thinking, U.S. researchers report.

Halloween costume? Check.

A new study provides more evidence that dopamine -- a brain chemical associated with reward, pleasure, movement and motivation -- plays a role in obesity.

At the beginning of every school year, concerned parents rush to get their kids the meningitis vaccine, with demand sometimes outpacing supply.

A specific brain region may be crucial to drug addiction, according to a new study conducted with amphetamine-addicted rats.

Sexual attraction is hard-wired into the brains of small worms called nematodes, say scientists who genetically manipulated some of the creatures to make them attracted to the same sex.