Parenting/Kids
- Breathing dirty air may lower kids
- Kids who live in neighborhoods with heavy traffic pollution have lower IQs and score worse on other tests of intelligence and memory than children who breathe cleaner air, a new study shows. The effect of pollution on intelligence was similar to tha...
- Author:Anne HardingDate:06/27/08Click:1 Full Story...
- Young Sydney elephant
- Sydney's premier zoo is celebrating the news that its 9-year-old Asian elephant is pregnant, but animal rights groups are shocked that the zoo has let a juvenile elephant fall pregnant. Allowing such a young elephant to fall pregnant was "the e...
- Author:Paris Maggs-SmithDate:06/27/08Click:0 Full Story...
- UN appeals for 15 million dollar emergency aid for NKorean children
- A United Nations relief agency has appealed for 15 million dollars in emergency aid for North Korean children, saying last year's floods increased their vulnerability. The financial needs for 2008 include eight million dollars for health and nutrit...
- Author:UnknownDate:06/27/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Kids of abused mothers visit ER more often
- Children whose mothers experience severe abuse at the hands of an intimate partner are more likely to wind up in hospital emergency departments, and their increased risk may persist for up to three years after the abuse has ended, new research shows....
- Author:Anne HardingDate:06/27/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Acupuncture boosts in-vitro pregnancy chances: study
- Acupuncture can increase the chance of success for couples seeking to have a baby through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), according to a review published online Friday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The paper looked at seven studies in which 1,...
- Author:UnknownDate:06/27/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Children of teenage dads risk problems at birth: study
- A child born of a teenage father is more likely to have problems at birth ranging from pre-term delivery and low birth weight, according to a Canadian study published Thursday. The same newborn is also at greater risk of dying, says the massive stud...
- Author:UnknownDate:06/27/08Click:0 Full Story...
- SLeone women step up pressure to eradicate female circumcision
- Women's rights advocacy groups in Sierra Leone are piling up pressure on authorities for the speedy eradication of female circumcision prevalent in the country, one campaigner said on Wednesday. Finda Fraser, coordinator of the Advocacy Network, sa...
- Author:UnknownDate:06/27/08Click:0 Full Story...
- French health officials on trial for mad-cow disease deaths
- Seven French health officials charged with involuntary homicide over the death of more than 100 children infected with a human variant of mad-cow disease went on trial Wednesday in Paris, 16 years after the first victim of their alleged negligence di...
- Author:UnknownDate:06/27/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Diet change gives hyperactive kids new taste for life in Norway
- Tears streak Rita's cheek as she recalls what it was like trying to figure out what was wrong with her son more than a decade ago, but she breaks into a smile when she explains how changing his diet made all the difference. "I could tell someth...
- Author:Nina LarsonDate:06/27/08Click:0 Full Story...
- England's children are getting fatter: health department
- Nearly one in four children aged four to five and almost a third of all 10- to 11-year-olds in England are obese or overweight, according to a study by Britain's Department of Health. As the government tries to fight Britain's bulging waistlines, ...
- Author:UnknownDate:06/27/08Click:0 Full Story...
- New York wants age limit on films with smoking scenes
- New York state health authorities launched a campaign Tuesday urging major film studio owners to protect children from seeing movies with smoking scenes. In full page advertisements in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, Health Commissioner...
- Author:UnknownDate:06/27/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Many maternal deaths worldwide preventable: study
- Infectious diseases kill a surprisingly large number of women during pregnancy, according to a study published on Tuesday that suggests many maternal deaths in the developing world are preventable. The study in the journal PLoS Medicine showed that...
- Author:Michael KahnDate:06/27/08Click:1 Full Story...
- Teens, parents may not see a weight problem
- Many parents of children classified as overweight or even extremely overweight do not perceive their child as being excessively heavy, with some wrongly believing that their child is "about the right weight," new research suggests. In addi...
- Author:UnknownDate:06/27/08Click:4 Full Story...
- Campbell's lowering sodium in kids soups
- MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - The Campbell Soup Co.'s kid-oriented soups, which feature characters such as Dora the Explorer and Batman on the cans, are getting their second sodium reduction in three years, the company announced Monday. This time, the 12 sou...
- Author:GEOFF MULVIHILLDate:06/27/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Severe childbirth fear uncommon in first-time moms
- Women pregnant with their first child are no more likely to be frightened of giving birth than were first-time moms in years past, despite a growing focus on childbirth fears in the media and in medical research, Danish researchers say. Dr. Maja Lau...
- Author:Anne HardingDate:06/27/08Click:0 Full Story...
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