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Young children's defiance toward mothers may be part of health development

At very young ages, children's defiant behavior toward their mothers may not be a bad thing.

20 Jul 2007

Cot death questioned by BMJ paper

An analysis published in this week's British Medical Journal is set to re-open the debate over sudden unexpected infant death (cot death).

20 Jul 2007

Comparison of ADHD treatments

Most children treated in a variety of ways for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) showed sustained improvement after three years in a major follow-up study funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

20 Jul 2007

Early behavior problems appear to lead to peer rejection and friendlessness

Behavior problems in the early grades appear to lead to peer rejection and a lack of friends in elementary school.

20 Jul 2007

Children's memory of long-ago events may be more accurate than previously thought

Children's memories of events that occurred long ago may be more accurate than their recollections of events that took place recently.

20 Jul 2007

Children's ability to describe past event develops over time

In the first study to examine how children talk about the time-related features of their experiences--when, how often, in what order events occur--researchers have found intriguing changes as children grow older.

20 Jul 2007

Higher child leukaemia rates near nuclear facilities

Leukaemia rates in children and young people are elevated near nuclear facilities, but no clear explanation exists to explain the rise, according to a research review published in the July issue of European Journal of Cancer Care.

20 Jul 2007

Junk food advertising ban a positive step

Eleven big food companies, including McDonald's, Pepsi Co. and General Mills, have all agreed to stop advertising products to children under 12 that do not meet certain nutritional requirements.

19 Jul 2007

Higher leukaemia rates in children living near nuclear facilities

19 Jul 2007

School-based education programmes for the prevention of child sexual abuse

School-based sexual abuse prevention programs can teach children to recognize mistreatment and might increase self-protective behaviors, according to a new review of studies.

18 Jul 2007

Orthodontic treatment -- no better in childhood than during adolescence

Having prominent front teeth is a potentially harmful problem.

18 Jul 2007

Early education key to preventing melanoma

Melanoma is killing young people as never before, and a new educational program created in part by a group of medical students and dermatology faculty from Saint Louis University School of Medicine is hoping to reverse this deadly trend.

18 Jul 2007

Growth hormone for idiopathic short stature in children and adolescents

Growth hormone injections appear to boost height in extremely short, healthy children, according to a recent systematic review, but height gain appears to peak at about three inches - and those inches are expensive.

18 Jul 2007

Correcting birth defects

Traditionally when a baby was born with a malformation of the lung or esophagus, they had to undergo open surgery involving a large chest incision with risk for serious complications.

18 Jul 2007

Pediatricians say advice to obese kids and families falls on deaf ears

Pediatricians who talk to obese patients and their families about losing weight feel their conversation makes little difference in encouraging a lifestyle change, a small Saint Louis University study finds.

17 Jul 2007

New hope for childhood cancer sufferers

Scientists investigating drug therapies for children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) have presented new data demonstrating for the very first time that a small molecule called ABT-737 can increase the effectiveness of standard therapies.

17 Jul 2007

C-reactive protein may indicate cognitive impairment in children with obstructive sleep apnea

C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation that is often used to detect cardiovascular disease, may also indicate cognitive impairment in children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a new study of children ages 5 to 7.

17 Jul 2007

How children with brain tumors perform at school

While children who have had brain tumors perform worse in school than healthy kids, grades in foreign language are the most affected and girls have a harder time than boys in getting good grades, according to a study published in the July 17, 2007, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

17 Jul 2007

Apraclonidine causes severe lethargy in infants

New research suggests that an eyedrop used to diagnose a rare syndrome in infants can cause severe lethargy lasting up to 10 hours and requiring hospital admission and oxygen administration.

17 Jul 2007

Fewer teens getting pregnant and more using condoms

According to a new report by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, in 2005 the teenage birth rate in the U.S. reached an all time low and more high school students were using condoms.

16 Jul 2007