Investigational nonstimulant Guanfacine XR significantly improved child, adolescent ADHD symptoms
...Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children aged 6 to 17 years. "Guanfacine extended release...1 mg to 4 mg taken once daily for the treatment of children and adolescents with ADHD. GXR Yielded Significant Reductions in ADHD-RS-IV Scores in Two Short-...Daytrana provides significant effectiveness in both boys and girls with ADHD
...ucing the symptoms of ADHD in both male and female children aged 6 to 12 years, according to clinical trial re...nder and ADHD." Approximately 4.4 million U.S. children aged 4 to 17 years -- about 7.8 percent of all school-age children -- have been diagnosed with ADHD ...New guideline for treating Lyme disease
...safe and effective when taken for 14 to 28 days by children and adults. Halperin says other oral antibiotics, such as amoxicillin and cefuroxime axetil, may be alternative treatment options for Lyme disease, but there is not enough supporting evidence to recommend them. Patients who have received accepted...'Supersize me' mice research offers grim warning for America's fast food consumers
...liver disease now affects about one of every eight children in this country. The good news is that it is somewhat reversible but for some it will take major changes in diet and lifestyle." ...Small infants have greater survival rate in high level intensive care facilities
...acilities that provide care to fewer than 100 such children every year. The research that led to this finding was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Institutes of Health, both agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Within NIH, support for...Long-term treatment with VYVANSE, first prodrug stimulant, demonstrates significant efficacy in ADHD
...-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms in children aged 6 to 12 years. In addition, 95 percent of children taking VYVANSE daily for 12 months showed overall improvement, according to phase III open-label ext...Endoscopic procedures advance physician knowledge and patient care
...apsule Endoscopy (WCE) is not widely used in small children (no FDA approval for children Researchers from children's hospitals throughout Europe tested the use of WCE in small children a...Inhaled steroids may not be enough for some children with asthma
ATS 2007, SAN FRANCISCOSome children may not be able to keep their asthma under control...onference, on Wednesday, May 23. The study of 914 children with mild to moderate asthma found that over a one-year period, children who reported consistent inh...Certain combination therapy found more effective for treating malaria in African children
Ugandan children who received the combination therapy of artemether... Malaria is one of the leading causes of death in children in Africa. One of the reasons the control of malaria has been difficult is because of increasing res...Number of insecticide-treated nets available to African households needs to be increased
...w many ITNs are needed to reach targets for use by children younger than 5 years and pregnant women. They foun...e 80 percent coverage target for about 133 million children younger than 5 years and pregnant women living in 123 million households in risk areas....Nearly half of children in Kenya with common type of severe malaria affected neurologically
... incidence and neurological involvement of African children with acute falciparum malaria (a severe type of malaria). The study included 19,560 Kenyan children younger than 14 years with malaria. "Neurological involvement occurred in almost half of the childre...Novel treatments may help alleviate constipation, IBS in women
... IBS, researchers sought to compare its effects in children to standard medical therapy commonly used for the ...notherapy was superior to conventional therapy for children with longstanding functional abdominal pain (FAP) or IBS, curing 59 percent of the patients, versus ...NYP/Weill Cornell Urologists present at 2007 AUA Conference
...who have had a vasectomy, but later decide to have children with their partner. Dr. Richard Lee will present findings of this study -- of which Dr. Peter Schlegel, Weill Cornell urology chair, is senior author -- during a podium session on Wednesday morning. Dr. Lee is also presenting research (MP03, May 19...Cigarette use may explain asthma epidemic in children, says Mailman School of Public Health study
...he past century may explain the asthma epidemic in children according to a study by researchers at the Mailman... a contributing factor to the rise in asthma among children during the same period through increased exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, said Dr. Goodwin. ...UCLA imaging study reveals how pure oxygen harms the brain
...scans revealed dramatic differences. "When the children inhaled pure oxygen, their breathing quickened, re... you're trying to resuscitate someone." When the children inhaled the carbon dioxide-oxygen mix, the hypothalamus' hyperactivity vanished from the MRI scan. ...Eating apples and fish during pregnancy may protect against childhood asthma and allergies
...fish during pregnancy may reduce the risk of their children developing asthma or allergic disease, suggests a ... at the University of Aberdeen, UK, found that the children of mothers who ate the most apples were less likely to ever have wheezed or have doctor-confirmed as...House dust may protect against allergic disease early in life
... the allergic skin condition eczema or wheezing in children if they are exposed to it up to age 3, suggests a ...ither condition by age 3. Were trying to find why children exposed to endoxotin have lower levels of disease early in life, says researcher Melisa Celaya, M.A....Parents and schools, major factors in China obesity boom
...ficantly associated with overweight and obesity in children included: living in urban districts limited u...ting approach that fosters a healthy lifestyle for children at the early stage of their life, to benefit them for the whole of their life. Dr Li highlights ...'Healthy' children with smoking parents aren't really so healthy
...nference, on Sunday, May 20. "Everyone knows that children of smokers have more respiratory problemsmore puff...ow we havent known if lung function is impaired in children of smokers who dont have any respiratory complaints or diagnosed lung problems," says researcher Ber...NIH study tracks brain development in some 500 children across US
...ge, computation, and social skills collected from children ages 6 to 18. The study "will provide researcher...that they can better understand what goes wrong in children who have brain abnormalities caused by genetic disease, prenatal exposure to alcohol or drugs, or ot...