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Weekend 'Catch-Up' Sleep May Help Kids' Weight
Jan. 24, 2011 -- Children who get too little sleep and have irregular school-day sleep schedules are more likely to be obese, especially if they don’t make up for lost sleep on the weekends, a new study finds. When researchers monitored the sleep patterns of about 300 children between the ages of 4
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Flu Vaccine: Infant Febrile Seizures Reported
Jan. 20, 2011 -- The FDA and CDC are investigating reports linking febrile seizure in infants to the Sanofi Fluzone flu vaccine. The reports come from the FDA/CDC Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). It's the early-warning system designed to give the first signal of vaccine safety issues.
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FDA Approves New Head Lice Treatment
Jan. 19, 2011 -- The FDA has approved a new treatment for controlling head lice, called Natroba Topical Suspension 0.9%, and says the substance can be safely used for infestations in children as young as age 4, as well as in older youths and adults. The manufacturer, ParaPro LLC of Carmel, Ind., say
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New Rules Call for Healthier School Lunches
Jan. 13, 2011 -- U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has unveiled new nutritional guidelines aimed at upgrading school meals to improve children’s health and curb the country’s obesity crisis. In a national telephone news briefing, Vilsack says children get about a third of their calories in scho
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Higher Blood Pressure in Kids Whose Parents Smoke
Jan. 10, 2011 -- Parents who smoke around their preschool-aged children may increase their kids’ risk of having higher blood pressure at that young age compared to children who have parents who do not smoke, according to research published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. T
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Clostridium Infection on the Rise in Hospitalized Kids
Jan. 4, 2011 -- The number of hospitalized children infected by a potentially dangerous bacterium is on the rise, according to a new study. The infection occurs from bacteria known as Clostridium difficile, which affects the gastrointestinal tract and can be deadly. These infections among hospitaliz
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Radiation Imaging Is Common in Children
Jan. 3, 2011 -- The average child in the U.S. will have around seven medical imaging tests involving radiation by the time he or she reaches the age of 18, a new study suggests. Researchers examined diagnostic imaging data over three years for more than 355,000 children enrolled with a leading healt
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Chickenpox Vaccine Drastically Cuts Hospitalizations
Jan. 3, 2011 -- The chickenpox vaccine prevented more than 50,000 hospitalizations from 2000 to 2006, according to new data published in the February issue of Pediatrics. This time frame is known as the one-dose chickenpox (varicella) vaccination era. In 2006, however, the CDC began recommending two
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Jeff Bridges: Hungry for Change
"16.7 million." When Jeff Bridges says the number, you hear in his voice frustration, anger, and incomprehension at its sheer size. "16.7 million American kids -- that's nearly one out of four kids in this country -- are at risk of not getting enough to eat," the Academy Award–winning actor says. "A
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Is Alternative Medicine Risky for Kids?
Dec. 23, 2010 - The growing numbers of parents who turn toward complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to treat their children’s illnesses may often assume that “natural” means safe and harmless. But new research in the Archives of Childhood Diseases suggests that many complementary and alterna
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