News tagged with child health
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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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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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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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Mom goes back to work, family OK
Easing the maternal guilt associated with mothers returning to work, University at Albany health economist Pinka Chatterji and co-researchers Sara Markowitz and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn recently released the results of a study ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Learning through unstructured play helps kids develop
Roughhousing, or tossing your children around on purpose, can be a hard sell to many parents. We worry our kids will get hurt. We don't want rowdy behavior carrying over into the classroom, especially in schools with no-touching ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2011 |
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New approach suggested for monitoring child health in developing countries
In a paper published in the January issue of the journal Economics and Human Biology, a team of applied economists including William A. Masters, a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Lead poisoning maps in R.I. reveal huge disparities, guide cleanup
The rate at which lead poisoning has struck young Rhode Island children depends heavily on where they live, according to a Brown University-led geographic analysis of comprehensive health department data from across Rhode ...
Nov 01, 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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Sad mothers have small babies
Clinical depression and anxiety during pregnancy results in smaller babies that are more likely to die in infancy, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Public Health. The study, which focuse ...
Aug 25, 2010 |
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International formula milk marketing code mired in 3 decades of dispute
An international marketing code for formula milk, intended to foster global cooperation among governments, industry, and aid agencies, has instead been mired in three decades of often bitter dispute, claims a child nutrition ...
Jul 26, 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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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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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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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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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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