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Health Care :: Bike helmet legislation could make cycling safer

Legislation that requires people to wear bicycle helmets appears to increase use and decreases injury rates, according to the results of a Cochrane Review. Cycling is a popular pastime and a mode of transport for children, but it also leads to many injuries that are frequently sufficiently severe to require hospitalisation. This is a global problem, and particularly effects low-income countries where the proportion of cycle-users is high.

Impetigo :: FDA Approves Antibiotic Ointment for Children and Adults

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Altabax (retapamulin ointment) for topical treatment of impetigo, a skin infection caused by bacteria. Altabax is indicated for use in patients aged nine months or older.

Breastfeeding :: Breastfeeding may help protect women against breast cancer

Research has shown there is a connection between reproductive factors?such as age at first birth, number of births, and breastfeeding?and a woman?s risk of breast cancer.

Rotavirus :: Rotavirus can spread beyond the intestine

A new study in PLoS Medicine has shown that children who have rotavirus, a very common cause of diarrhea in children, and who have antigens (protein fragments from the surface of the virus) in their blood, also have infectious virus in their blood.

Leukemia :: Risk of second malignant neoplasms after childhood leukemia and lymphoma

A team of 19 researchers from Australia, Canada, Iceland, Singapore, and several European countries has completed what they call the “largest population-based study of absolute and relative risk of second malignant neoplasms (SMNs)” in childhood leukemia and lymphoma survivors.

Ear :: Obesity may be linked to middle ear effusions in children

Childhood obesity may be associated with a condition known as otitis media with effusion, which consists of fluid build-up in the middle ear space without symptoms of acute ear infection, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Breastfeeding :: Breastfeeding reduces risk of breast cancer for women who delay childbirth

Breastfeeding can offset the increased risk of invasive breast cancer for women who had their first full-term pregnancy after the age of 25, a study led by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) suggests.

Health Care :: Bisphenol A, BPA On Trial

Bisphenol A (BPA), a weak synthetic estrogen used in a variety of consumer products ranging from baby bottles to resins that line food and beverage containers, has been linked in some studies to adverse health effects in rodents, including obesity, cancer and insulin resistance.

Obesity :: Rise in childhood obesity, especially among girls

Four-year-old girls are six times more likely to have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of more than 30 than they were 20 years ago and ten-year-olds are five times more likely, according to research published in the April issue of Acta Paediactrica.

Relationship :: Grandparents relate to adopted grandchildren the same as biological grandchildren

Grandparents of adopted grandchildren relate to them as an integral part of the family ? just as they relate to their biological grandchildren. This was revealed in research conducted at the University of Haifa School of Social Work.