News tagged with childhood mortality
CDC: 1 in 4 high schoolers drink soda every day
A new study shows one in four high school students drink soda every day - a sign fewer teens are downing the sugary drinks.
Jun 16, 2011 |
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Childhood cancer survivors face higher death risk 25 years later, from cancer, circulatory diseases
Follow-up of a group of British childhood cancer survivors indicates they have an increased risk of death from second primary cancers and cardiac and cerebrovascular causes more than 25 years after their initial cancer diagnosis, ...
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Orange corn holds promise for reducing blindness, child death
Decreasing or increasing the function of a newly discovered gene in corn may increase vitamin A content and have significant implications for reducing childhood blindness and mortality rates, according to ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Death from childhood stroke
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stroke is an important cause of childhood morbidity and is in the top ten causes of childhood death. For the first time, new research has looked at trends in death from childhood stroke in ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 01, 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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Sickle cell study boosts call for improved childhood immunization programs in Africa
Children in Africa with sickle cell anaemia are dying unnecessarily from bacterial infections, suggests the largest study of its kind, funded by the Wellcome Trust. The results are published today in the journal ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 09, 2009 |
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