The BMA is launching updated guidance on withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, to take into account the major changes for patients and doctors that will come into force when the Mental Capacity Act is implemented in England and Wales in April and October 2007.
The Standing Committee on Health tabled a report in the House of Commons entitled Healthy Weights for Healthy Kids.
For all the current emphasis on standardized testing and teaching requirements, the quality of elementary school instruction is mediocre at best, according to a study from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development study published in the March 30 issue of Science magazine.
Health Canada has completed a review of the science on mercury in fish, and is putting additional measures in place to protect Canadians while encouraging them to follow the fish consumption advice contained in the new Food Guide.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population has announced two new human cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection.
Single parents concerned about the developmental health of their children may want to choose new partners slowly and deliberately. New research shows that the more transitions children go through in their living situation, the more likely they are to behave badly.
Chromosomal microarray analysis, a two-year-old gene-chip technology used to look for potential genetic abnormalities in children, has proved to be remarkably sensitive in detecting abnormalities in individual chromosomes.
Researchers led by Professor Murray Norris in the Molecular Diagnostics Program at the Children?s Cancer Institute Australia used a highly sensitive technique to characterize the small population of unique leukaemia cells responsible for relapse in patients diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), the most common cancer in children.
The impact of exercise on body fat differs for boys and girls, suggests research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The CNS Foundation welcomes the publication by CNS grantee Dr. Evan Snyder of experimental results that extend the promise of stem cell therapies to degenerative brain diseases of childhood.