A report published in the January issue of Pediatrics journal may cause unfounded concerns about the safety of chiropractic for children, according to the World Chiropractic Alliance (WCA), an organization representing doctors of chiropractic around the world.
A new study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) finds that polio vaccination in the United States has resulted in a net savings of over $180 billion, even without including the large, intangible benefits associated with avoided fear and suffering.
As part of the United Nations zero tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation, the world body?s mission in Sudan today agreed with the Government and the UN Children?s Fund (UNICEF) to set up a joint task force to foster coordination, information-sharing and action to stamp out the problem wherever it may occur.
In a major public health victory, children?s measles deaths have fallen by 60 per cent since 1999, exceeding the goals of the United Nations, thanks to a new four-part strategy aimed at preventing the spread of the highly contagious disease, UN agencies and their partners have announced.
Each year, about 40,000 children are adopted across national lines, primarily by families from North America and Western Europe. These joyful occasions mark the growth of new families and also provide the framework for a natural experiment in language development. Although most are infants and toddlers, thousands of older children are also adopted. Typically, these older children loose their birth language rapidly and become fluent speakers of their new language.
Hypothermia ? when the body’s temperature drops significantly below normal ? is especially deadly for the elderly. Older people become hypothermic despite the fact that they are more likely to live inside a home than on the street, and nearly half who become hypothermic die.
Penn State Children’s Hospital now offers an outpatient clinic devoted to easing the pain of headaches.
Researchers studying obesity among rural children in Head Start programs have discovered that those from families in which English is the second language are at higher risk for being overweight.
A new study concludes that low birthweight babies born with low sodium in their blood serum will likely consume large quantities of dietary sodium later in life. Researchers also found that newborns with the most severe cases of low sodium blood serum consumed ~1700 mg more sodium per day and weighed some 30 percent more than their peers.
After a successful pilot run, the LSU School of Social Work received $100,000 from the AmeriCares Mental Health Grant Program to continue its study, “Weathering the Storm: Wellness Groups for Children and Caregivers.”