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Childhood Diseases & Disorders

'Mother warrior' survives deadly bacteria

19 hrs ago

Monica was diagnosed with deadly, flesh-eating bacteria after C-section Doctors amputated Monica's limbs, did 37 surgeries "She's a fighter," husband says of Monica's strength and determination Monica now does everyday things...

Free medical care for Ghanaian children

Children in Ghana will benefit from a free medical care to be provided by the country's public health facilities. The exercise is part of activities lined up by the Ghana Health Service to mark this year's Maternal and Child...

Psychic Kids

How to Determine if Your Child has Psychic Abilities Is your child supernaturally gifted? This article will help guide you in your discoveries of your child's hidden abilities and show you how to develop them more fully. A new...

FDA Approves Nasacort AQ for Children 2-5 Years Old

Based on the results of trials, the FDA has approved the use of Nasacort AQ for the treatment of nasal symptoms associated with seasonal and perennial allergic rhinitis among children aged 2-5 years old. Previously, the cut-off...

Obesity in children becoming a worrying fact

Obesity Week runs from 13 to 17 October 2008. Obesity is now recognised as a major public health problem in many countries like Australia, America, UK, Mexico, Brazil as well as South Africa. Worldwide statistics show that 22...

Philanthropist publishes book depicting "crisis" faced by gay teens

With gay teens 190 percent more likely to use drugs or alcohol and four times as likely to take their own lives, Mitchell Gold's "Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Societal and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up...

Measles in the U.S.

From the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, an Editorial Note: Once ubiquitous, measles now is uncommon in the United States. In the prevaccine era, 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 measles cases occurred every year, resulting...

Traditional family dinner helps beat obesity

A TRADITIONAL family dinner is being hailed as our best defence against alarming rates of childhood obesity. Child health experts told a Brisbane conference yesterday that families which ate and talked "as a unit" over the...

Space food

Ryan Knox is taking part in the space food trial Doctors are examining if food given to astronauts can provide long-term help to children with Crohn's disease. However, for some patients, like 12 year-old Ryan Knox, from...

Delay to vaccinations IT system

The government wants to raise MMR vaccination rates in England The introduction of a computer system to track immunisations in London has been delayed, despite fears of a national measles epidemic. It is due to replace a system...