Anastasia and Tatiana are 3-year-old conjoined twins that a multidisciplinary team of Rainbow surgical specialists will be evaluating and attempting to separate over the next several months.
Some day, heart attack survivors might have a patch of laboratory-grown muscle placed in their heart, to replace areas that died during their attack.
A national-level experts group set up by the Centre to study the issue of pesticide content in soft drinks has stressed on the need to study the health impact of carbonated drinks.
Yearning for freedom and suffering from loneliness, Chinese youngsters, apparently impacted by the nation’s unprecedented growth, are increasingly committing suicide, a survey has found.
Prior research has shown that children with ADHD can develop alcohol problems later in life. Two studies confirm this association, indicating that drinking problems begin around age 15.
People who are frequently infected with malaria parasites can develop immunity against the gametocyte, the infectious stage. This immunity inhibits the spread of the parasite.
Children who received higher quality child care before entering kindergarten had better vocabularies through the fifth grade than those who received lower quality care, the latest findings in a long-term study, co-authored by a professor at The University of Texas at Dallas, suggests.
Parents might one day give their children a weekly treatment with a nasal spray of virus enzymes to prevent them from getting a severe middle ear infection, based on results of a study done in mice by investigators from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and The Rockefeller University, in New York.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that its new, novel topical antibiotic ALTARGO? (retapamulin ointment, 1%) received a positive opinion from the European Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) for the treatment of impetigo and infected small lacerations, abrasions or sutured wounds.
Chronic reading problems and depression appear to be related, especially among low-income children, and the reading problems precede the depression.