Lack of funds hampering important child health study
...l need US$2.7 billion over 25 years, but they have hit problems securing the necessary funds. The study has already been delayed by a year. For the 2005 fiscal year US Congress appropriated less than half the $27 million the researchers were counting on, and for the fiscal year 2006 President Bush has re...FDA approves Boostrix a new US vaccine for adolescents against pertussis
...cases per year. Adolescents aged 10 19 are being hit particularly hard, with almost 40 percent of cases reported to the CDC in 2004 occurring in this age group. Alarmingly, there was a 743 percent increase in reported adolescent pertussis cases in the last decade. Teens, in whom classic signs and sym...New portable device developed by Georgia Tech and Emory checks for concussions on the sidelines
... a football player or soldier who just took a hard hit to the head can take the test and either be safely cleared to get back on the field or sent to receive medical attention. The device blocks external stimuli that could interfere with testing, such as light and sound. This allows the test to be given ...Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
...oy, 10 days after diagnosis. "The actual reality hit me when he had to have insulinI was absolutely devastated." - Mother of a 12-year-old boy, five days after diagnosis. "A lot of it, within the first few months, is just pure fearit's dealing with an illness that you know absolutely nothing aboutan......r-to-child transmission in the many places hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic where no other alternative is available," says obstetrician/gynecologist Susan Cu-Uvin, MD, member of the HIVMA Board of Directors and an AIDS researcher working in the Philippines, Cambodia, and India. "Now we all need to turn ...