World first medical treatment announced by researchers
... but devastating medical condition that can affect children and young people. In a world first, the clinicians and scientists from the two universities have already treated one patient with promising results. Their preliminary data are published as a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine. This is ...Highlights from the June 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...erage consumption between meals of more than 1,900 children living in Quebec, Canada. The researchers found nearly 7 percent of children who didnt drink sugar-sweetened beverages between meals between the ages of 2 to 4 were overweight a...FDA approves ZYFLO CR extended-release tablets for chronic treatment of asthma
...axis and chronic treatment of asthma in adults and children 12 years of age and older. ZYFLO CR and ZYFLO are not indicated for use in the reversal of bronchospasm in acute asthma attacks, but can be continued during acute exacerbations of asthma. Leukotrienes are inflammatory mediators in asthma that can t...Study: Directly observed HIV therapy for children is promising
...s a promising strategy to ensure that HIV-infected children in developing countries take life-saving medicatio...est the benefits of directly observed treatment in children living in developing countries. Findings are published in the June issue of the American Journal of ...Vaxfectin-formulated measles DNA vaccine elicits long-term protection in nonhuman primates
...safety and efficacy suitable for infants and young children in the developing world, and continued development could result in a major impact on global measles disease and death rates." The study in juvenile rhesus macaques tested the protective efficacy of a bivalent DNA vaccine encoding measles hemaggluti...New mothers often not asked about depression, UNC survey finds
... the women experiencing it but also for the womens children and family. Its a disease that affects more than just the new mother, Gaynes said. Postpartum depression is thought to be caused by changes in hormone levels that occur after pregnancy, Gaynes said. Every woman has a risk of postpartum depression d...Doctors have key role in preventing and detecting child neglect and abuse
...ed to the appropriate public agency to protect the children involved. The issues are discussed in a Seminar pu...s say: "The abuse and neglect (or maltreatment) of children is a worldwide problem, although its manifestations and extent vary. It is far more prevalent than i...Study: Who claims to be a pediatrician?
...be a success, Freed says. 3. Ability to care for children with chronic diseases. Is the pediatrician experienced in caring for children with chronic diseases such as asthma or diabetes" The American Lung Association estimates that 6.2 m...Once-fatal metabolic disorders treatable, says Stanford/Packard researcher
...ours after birth but are often misdiagnosed. Older children or adults with less-severe mutations can lead normal lives until sickness or a change in diet overtax the body and bring on a life-threatening episode. Only a fraction of the many possible mutations are picked up by expanded newborn screening, and ...Access to alcohol among middle school children
...re than one-third of the alcohol consumed by these children came from their own or a friends parents or guardi...odels at the crucial time when their middle school children are likely to have their first serious encounters with alcohol. Between 2002 and 2005, Principal I...Help for pediatricians in treating behavioral health problems only partially successful
...ns were diagnosing and treating growing numbers of children with behavioral health problems about 15 percent of the children they see but did not always feel sufficiently trained to fill this new role. This year, Williams...Inactive kids storing up illness for the future
...eveals that the level of physical inactivity among children today has reached epidemic levels. Researchers fro...sian and white children. For example only half the children walked to school although south Asian children were less likely to walk to school compared to white ...A pioneering system allows autistic children to communicate with their environment
Communication ability among children who are intellectually disabled or have communicat...evices (PCs, laptops, PDAs, etc.), is designed for children with special communication and educational needs, such as those who suffer from autism. This is a ...HIV and malaria combine to adversely affect pregnant women and their infants
...e a deadly condition that leaves mothers and their children particularly vulnerable," says Professor Kevin Kain, an infectious disease specialist and lead author of the study. "We set out to understand how women acquire protection against malaria during pregnancy and how HIV infection impairs that protection....Most pediatric chemotherapy mistakes reach patients
...vast majority of chemotherapy errors identified in children reach patients, according to one of the first epid...rrors found that 13 percent of such errors reached children and 2 percent were serious and required intervention. Dr. Marlene Miller of Johns Hopkins Univers...UCLA pediatrician honored with prestigious achievement award
...s, the demonstration of profound T-cell defects in children with the malnutrition conditions known as kwashior... Stiehm was a leader in the recognition of AIDS in children and in efforts to prevent the transmission of HIV from infected mothers to fetuses. He also played a...Different type of iron supplement is better at boosting iron levels
...ron-deficiency anaemia and general iron deficiency children in developing countries, and boosts three major ir...Kenya and Netherlands-based colleagues studied 516 children aged three to eight years from four schools in Marafa, Kenya, some 10% of whom were suffering from a...Complications of type 2 diabetes in young people -- a ticking bomb
...e of other neuropsychiatric diseases. The unborn children of pregnant young women and girls diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are also at increased risk. A Canadian study of 51 girls aged 17 years and under all diagnosed with type 2 diabetes revealed only 35 live births were recorded a pregnancy loss rate of ...NHLBI Asthma Clinical Research Networks and ALA ACRC Network to present at ATS 2007
...FRANCISCOResearchers studying inhaled steroids and children with asthma, as well as asthma and obesity, will p...ng the effect of inhaled-corticosteroid therapy on children with asthma. In May 2006, PEAK researchers published findings in The New England Journal of Medicine...12-month study demonstrated tolerability and efficacy of Daytrana
...Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children aged 6 to 12 years, provided significant improveme...nual meeting in San Diego. "We documented that children with ADHD experienced effective ADHD treatment with use of DAYTRANA for 12 months, sustaining the im...