News tagged with child health
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Third-hand smoke: Another reason to quit smoking
Need another reason to add "Quit Smoking" to your New Year's resolutions list? How about the fact that even if you choose to smoke outside of your home or only smoke in your home when your children are not there - thinking ...
Dec 29, 2008 |
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Abused children appear likely to have mental disorders as young adults
Abuse and neglect during childhood appear to be associated with increased rates of mood, anxiety and substance use disorders among young adults, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 05, 2010 |
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Pets bring health, happiness and healing
Doctors may soon be prescribing their patients a script to adopt a cat or dog, given a recent study found an estimated $3.86 billion was saved on health spending in Australia, due to the benefits of pet ownership.
May 27, 2009 |
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Peer pressure builds more latrines than financial assistance
Government subsidies persuade some people to change habits, but social shame works even better, suggests a recent study of efforts to reduce elevated childhood death and disease rates blamed on the microbial pathogens that ...
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Latino toddlers lag in cognitive growth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two new studies led by University of California, Berkeley, researchers find that immigrant Latina mothers, who typically live in poor neighborhoods, give birth to healthy babies, but their toddlers start ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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When will children disobey parents? It depends on the rule
As all parents know, children often want to do exactly what their parents don't want them to do. In three areas that children often consider parts of their personal domain -- clothing, friendship, and leisure activities -- ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Less child mortality among taller women in developing countries
Each centimeter/inch counts for women in developing countries. This is the outcome of research by Christiaan Monden of Tilburg University and Jeroen Smits of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, which was recently ...
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Study: 2 million babies and mothers die at birth
(AP) -- More than 2 million babies and mothers die worldwide each year from childbirth complications, outnumbering child deaths from malaria and HIV/AIDS, according to a study.
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Hitting early, swine flu claims 11 more kids in US
(AP) -- As the swine flu outbreak strikes the U.S. early and hard, health officials note a worrisome number of child deaths and warn that supplies of vaccine will remain scarce for at least the next couple ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 17, 2009 |
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Gates makes $10 billion vaccines pledge
(AP) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world's poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said ...
Jan 29, 2010 |
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Study: Child health may suffer in strong economy
A short-term economic boom is not always a good thing for children in developing nations, according to a new study in the Journal of Political Economy. The study found that when Colombia's coffee trade suddenly booms, illnes ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Acceptance, social support, and educational access provide safety net for former child soldiers
The Child Soldiers Global Report 20081 estimates that more than 300,000 children are engaged as soldiers around the globe, and more children are recruited every year in ongoing and new conflicts. Although a number of multinational ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Witnessing Arrests May Increase Stress Risk in Children: Study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Illinois at Chicago study says children in the nation's child welfare system who witnessed the arrest of a household member may have been psychologically traumatized by the arrest.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Studies explore effects of war on former child soldiers
Despite international bans, more than 250,000 children fight as soldiers in 86 countries across the globe, almost half of them in Africa. Two new studies explored how these children adjust after they return to their homes. ...
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Smoking during pregnancy may harm the child's motor control and coordination
Women who smoke during pregnancy run the risk of adversely affecting their children’s coordination and physical control according to a new study from Orebro University, Sweden, published in the Journal of Epidemiology an ...
Sep 22, 2010 |
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