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Child expert says pureed food for babies is unnecessary and harmful

A leading child care expert in Britain says that feeding babies pureed food is unnecessary and could be harmful to their health.

20 Jun 2007

Babies with parents who smoke have cotinine in their urine

British scientists say babies with parents who smoke have five times as much cotinine, a nicotine byproduct, in their urine than infants whose parents are non-smokers.

20 Jun 2007

Lead poisoning in New York City at lowest level in more than a decade

Although childhood lead poisoning remains a serious problem, the number of new cases identified in 2006 marks the lowest level in more than a decade.

19 Jun 2007

New pediatric sleep lab in upstate New York

The Pediatric Sleep Medicine Offices, the first pediatric sleep lab in upstate New York , has started doing overnight studies in its new location in Clinton Crossings.

19 Jun 2007

Elevator-related injuries in children

In the first large-scale epidemiological study evaluating elevator-related injuries in children throughout the United States, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and a colleague from Ohio State University report on the large number of these preventable injuries.

19 Jun 2007

Causes of childhood brain aneurysms

A new University of Cincinnati (UC) study questions the commonly held scientific belief that childhood brain aneurysms are caused by trauma, infection or underlying vascular malformations.

18 Jun 2007

Sleep-related breathing disorder common among aggressive kids

Aggressive behavior and bullying, common among schoolchildren, are likely to have multiple causes, one of which may be an undiagnosed sleep-related breathing disorder (SRBD), according to a research abstract presented at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS).

18 Jun 2007

Boys and delinquency

Researchers trying to understand why high school-age boys are involved in serious delinquency more often than girls have found that males are exposed to higher levels of risk factors and lower amounts of protective factors.

16 Jun 2007

Steps for children to get a good nights sleep

Over the past decade, children have been going to bed later and sleeping less.

16 Jun 2007

Mild sleep loss affects children's speech

Research examining the impact of sleep in school-age children suggests that even mild sleep loss produces marked deficits in their cognitive development and functioning.

16 Jun 2007

Recurrence of SIDS overestimated

Recurrence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is rare and has been overestimated by studies which have tried to quantify it, says a review published online ahead of print in Archives of Disease in Childhood.

15 Jun 2007

Impact of prenatal cocaine exposure on children

Adding to the evidence that maternal drug use can have lasting effects, a new study finds that young schoolchildren of cocaine-using moms scored more poorly on attention tests.

15 Jun 2007

Millions of children denied cheap epilepsy drug worldwide

Millions of children with epilepsy in developing countries are being denied an effective drug that costs less than $3 a year, according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal.

14 Jun 2007

Delinquency in children now linked to biology

How do sweet children turn into delinquents seemingly right before our eyes?

14 Jun 2007

Children from lower socioeconomic classes have more sleep problems

Children from a lower socioeconomic environment have worse sleeping patterns than children from middle class status.

14 Jun 2007

FPG Child Development Institute receives $8 Million to establish autism professional development center

Two of the most often-used classroom approaches for teaching young children with autism have never been evaluated, until now.

14 Jun 2007

Combining brain scans and behavioral tests aids early identification of at-risk readers

Taken together, functional brain scans and tests of reading skills strongly predict which children will have ongoing reading problems.

14 Jun 2007

Children's brain responses predict impact of sleep loss on attention

The brain responses of those children who don't get enough sleep can accurately predict the impact sleep loss has on their ability to pay attention during the course of a day, according to a research abstract presented at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS).

14 Jun 2007

Breastfeeding may provide long-term protection against childhood sleep-related breathing disorder

A childhood sleep-related breathing disorder (SRBD) is known to have negative consequences on cognitive development, behavior, quality of life and utilization of health care resources.

14 Jun 2007

Children receiving antibiotics before age 1 at greater risk for asthma by age 7

The study, published in the June issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), reports that children receiving antibiotics in the first year of life were at greater risk for developing asthma by age 7 than those not receiving antibiotics.

14 Jun 2007