Juice :: Apple juice reduces wheezing in asthma children
A higher consumption of apple juice may protect against wheezing in children suffering from asthma, revealed by British researchers recently in UK.
Children
Obesity :: European Commission proposes efforts to tackle obesity
Obesity is a risk factor for many serious illnesses including heart disease, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, stroke, and certain types of cancer. Child obesity is of particular concern.
Parenting :: Why kids need learning opportunities during the summer
As the school year ends, parents should provide high-quality learning opportunities for children during the summer months.
Eye :: New insights into visual disturbances accompanying skull deformations
Most children with a craniofacial deformity known as unicoronal synostosis have the eye-alignment abnormality strabismus, reports a study in the May Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Drug Abuse :: Drug use is increasing among young American Indians
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center have completed a study that compared the age of first-time drug users across the nation to the age of first-time drug users on and near two different American Indian reservations.
Sleep :: Sleep deprived kids struggle at school
A University of South Australia study shows that school children between the ages of 10 and 15 years are averaging at least 30 minutes less sleep than children of the same ages did more than 20 years ago.
Salmonella :: Maranatha Organic raw & roasted sesame tahini may contain salmonella
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume MaraNatha brand Organic Raw and Roasted Sesame Tahini described below because these products may be contaminated with Salmonella.
Tuberculosis :: Stop TB Partnership delivers treatments for 10 million people in six years
Securing its place as an indispensable defence against the development and spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), the Stop TB Partnership announced today that its drug supply arm, the Global Drug Facility, has provided anti-TB drug treatments for 10 million people to 78 countries in the past six years.
Smoking :: Only 100% smoke-free environments protect from dangers of second-hand smoke
The World Health Organization (WHO) signalled the urgent need for countries to make all indoor public places and workplaces 100% smoke-free with the release of its new policy recommendations on protection from exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke in advance of World No Tobacco Day (31 May), which focuses this year on this theme.
Psychiatry :: Help for pediatricians in treating behavioral health problems only partially successful
Continuing medical education, newsletters and resource guides were only partially successful in changing the way that pediatricians handled behavioral health problems, according to a follow-up study at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.