Good child care not harmful, has benefits, but poor care worrisome, U.S. study reveals
...HILL When mothers are sensitive to their youngest childrens needs at home, time spent in child care appears to...esday. In fact, high-quality care appears to boost childrens development somewhat, and research evidence suggests it improves mother-child interactions slightly....Costly cancer treatment aimed at protecting kids hearts offers no additional benefit
...y created specifically to learn how we can protect childrens hearts from chemotherapy, he says. What we found was that continuous infusion didnt offer the heart protection that many in the medical community have assumed it did for more than 15 years. There might be significant benefits to reverting to the bol...Majority of parents schedule child's first dental visit two years too late
...ys parents are more informed and involved in their childrens oral care routine. For example, in 1996, only one-third of parents were aware that their childs oral care routine should begin early and that they should regularly clean their childs gums before the child even has teeth. By contrast, in 2002, over h...Study finds direct link between computer use and vision problems in children
... The eye examinations also included assessments of childrens ability to distinguish details and shapes of objec...c Association (AOA), the impact of computer use on childrens vision involves the following factors: Children often have a limited degree of self-awareness. Ch...Parenting News: More than one hour of TV a day may lead to violence, Science study suggests
... 20 to 25 violent acts occur in an average hour of childrens television, according to Johnson. Thus, the amount of television the study subjects watched per day should generally reflect the amount of violence they saw, he reasoned. Information on aggressive acts committed by the study subjects came from interv...UCLA scientists discover African strain of AIDS in two American infants
...e that combined African viral strains A and G. The childrens mothers had transmitted the AIDS virus to them dur... end of the year, however, the team remeasured the childrens viral loads with another diagnostic method designed to detect non-B viral strains. Not only did the ...At 2 years, cocaine babies suffer cognitive development effects
...ironmental intervention can have a large effect on childrens mental development independent of cocaine or other drug exposure. About one million children have been born after fetal cocaine exposure since the mid-1980s, when the crack epidemic emerged with the marketing of a cheap, potent, easily available, smo...Urgent action needed to improve maternal care in Latin America
...t have access to them and risk their own and their childrens lives....Kids getting a steady diet of fast food on the tube
...ULU, April 24 Television commercials aired during childrens shows now emphasize larger fast-food portions comp... studied commercials aired during Saturday morning childrens television in 1976, 1984, 1992 and 2001. For each year they analyzed the commercials aired during a...UCSF, UC Davis establish joint pediatric heart center
...eds of the whole child into account. Because these childrens hospitals are integrated within major academic med...partment of Pediatrics and program director of the childrens hospital. By combining our strengths, we will be able to offer an unmatched level of specialized tre...Black, Latino children with asthma get lesser care
...rents to evaluate racial and ethnic differences in childrens asthma status and management. And the findings may have wider implications: asthma is a "sentinel condition" for monitoring quality of health care delivery, the authors note, because it is a common chronic illness with clear guidelines for care. Led ...Surprising findings on Medicaid kids and the ER
...-emergent problems. Dombkowski then looked at the childrens Medicaid enrollment patterns, finding that 60 perc...with managed care, families now can identify their childrens regular doctor, they are taking children for regular doctor visits, and they are beginning to use th...Pitt researchers find gender differences in the mental health care of children
...s, the disparities in the finding and treatment of childrens mental health problems may be remedied by finding ways to improve both the screening and identification processes used by PCCs and the communication between parents and clinicians about these issues. They also stated that clinicians should resist the...American kids poor food choices: Fewer than 15 percent eat recommended fruits and vegetables
...for a snack for just one afternoon would lower the childrens daily fat intake almost to the recommended level, ...z Beverages also can have a significant impact on childrens daily eating, Block noted. Soft drink consumption increased 21 percent among 2 to 5 year-olds over ...Venlafaxine significantly effective for children and teens with generalized anxiety disorder
...participants parents or guardians consented to the childrens enrollment, and the children and teens gave their assent. However, neither the investigators, the parents nor the children knew whether a participant received venlafaxine or a placebo during the double-blind phase of the study. During the double-bl...Meta-analysis of zinc supplementation shows positive growth effects for infants and children
...l studies of the effect of zinc supplementation on childrens growth have yielded inconsistent results due to unpredictable factors such as the availability of zinc in the local diet and the pre-existing zinc status of the study subjects. In order to provide a systematic qualitative review of findings regardin...Emotional problems of children living in war zones not recognised
...nt of the emotional disturbances associated with childrens exposure to war zones and political violence, conc...cted by war and other forms of political violence, childrens emotional problems can be detected early by professionals and volunteers working in health care, and...International study of children and adolescents reveals major trend toward overweight and obesity
...elevision watching, identified as a major cause of childrens inactivity and linked to childhood obesity in several studies. In the United States alone, a significantly greater proportion of adolescents (27.3%) than children (22%) were overweight, and in China, increases in the incidence of overweight were mor...An extra hour of sleep can make a big difference for kids
...ing to bed an hour later than usual can compromise childrens alertness and brain functioning, a new study sugge...eaned from the actigraph was used to determine the childrens sleep schedule (the time they fell asleep and the duration of sleep) and sleep quality (how many tim......ook at how school-based safety programs can change childrens behavior over the long term, say Sallie E. Davis Kirsch, Ph.D., R.N., of the University of Washington and colleagues. Children who participated in the program also received custom-fit helmets, suggesting that accessibility to helmets is a necessary s...