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'Family-centered rounds' for pediatric patients applauded
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Including families of hospitalized children in discussions during medical rounds improves doctor-family communication and benefits medical trainees, a new study shows. Traditionally, medical professionals on rounds left a patient's room to discuss the person's condition and care, and then returned to the room to talk with the patient and his or her family. This study found that having these discussions in a pediatric patient's room with the
family present (a practice known as family-centered rounds) is becoming more common, particularly in hospitals with large numbers of medical trainees. More
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Family visits Washington to advocate children's hospitals
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Even if medicine to cure cystic fibrosis existed, and if all 30,000 Americans afflicted bought it, drug companies couldn't recoup research costs, said Joey Benton. His 7-year-old son, Joey "Peanut" Benton IV, has cystic fibrosis. It's for little boys and girls like Peanut that advocacy groups raise funds for research and children's hospitals, which can make all the difference for children with chronic diseases. "If it wasn't for
children's hospitals, we wouldn't be here," Benton said. "There's not that many children’s hospitals."
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Health reform and children's hospitals
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Health care legislation established insurance reforms that help kids, but there is still much to be done to ensure access to high-quality pediatric care. To share their personal health stories, more than 30 patients treated at children's hospitals and their families were in Washington, D.C., last month for the 2010 National Association of Children's Hospitals Family Advocacy Day.
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Parallel processing refers to the introduction of a candidate to multiple clients by the same firm. Tyler & Company, specializing in children's hospitals executive recruitment, explains why
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First health overhaul provisions start to kick in
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The first stage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is expected to provide coverage to about 1 million uninsured Americans by next year, according
to government estimates. That's a small share of the uninsured, but in a shaky economy, experts say it's notable. Many others — more than 100 million people — are getting new benefits that improve their existing coverage.
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Can neck measure indicate body fat better than BMI?
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Flawed, limited and inaccurate. The complaints against the body mass index are many. Among them: The BMI, which measures weight relative to height, doesn't accurately calculate body fat. It deems athletes or muscular people to be obese and underestimates body fat in older people. But it's inexpensive and simple, so the BMI continues to be the public health agencies' standard for assessing for obesity. A study published recently in
the journal Pediatrics suggests another simple, straightforward measurement could be used to supplement the BMI: neck circumference.
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Mental health woes plague 'cyberbullies' and their victims
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Teens who "cyberbully" others via the Internet or cell phones are more likely to suffer from both physical and psychiatric troubles, and their victims are at heightened risk, too, a Finnish study finds. The survey of almost 2,500 teens found that more than 7 percent of teens bullied other teens online, about 5 percent were targets of this aggressive behavior, and 5.4
percent said they were both bullies and bullied.
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Debates rages over having babies sleep with parents
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Deadra and Adam Berkan's decision to sleep with their babies, an environment they say provides closer bonds, was not made lightly. Yet when the Sunnyvale,
Calif., couple shared their decision with a pediatrician, they were met with negative remarks. The Berkans are among countless Silicon Valley parents who practice the attachment style of parenting despite stark statistics that 27 babies in Santa Clara County have died during the past five years because of unsafe sleeping environments, which include babies and parents in the same bed.
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Leave baby car seats in car, study says
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To prevent injuries in babies, car seats should stay in the car. That's the message of a new study, published today in the journal Pediatrics, which shows that
almost 9,000 infants go to the emergency room every year for car seat-related injuries that happen outside the car. If the seat does have to come out of the car, said co-author Lindsay Wilson, parents should make sure their babies are always strapped in.
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Doctors have hope to treat painful skin disease
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Bay Area doctors are trying to cure children from a rare disease that's extremely painful to the touch. There may be new hope for what some parents have called the most painful disease nobody has heard of and its victims are children. And while we should tell you that it may be difficult to watch them in pain, researchers in the Bay Area believe they could soon have a
way to help them.
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Supporting your family-centered care initiatives is easy with CaringBridge. It's a free website to help patients stay connected during a serious health event. Learn more |
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Sleep study suggests later school starting times could improve high schoolers' performance
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Once the carefree days of summer are over, teenagers across the country face the brutal reality of waking up for school. Many high schools open their doors early in the morning, with classes starting at 7:30 a.m., and sometimes earlier. It's tough for teens to wake up for those early morning classes, and new research suggests that an early school bell may be fighting a losing battle against Mother Nature. A study of teens at a Rhode
Island boarding school found that pushing back the school day by 30 minutes improved concentration, mood and even encouraged students to consume healthier breakfasts. It also reduced tardiness.
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Too much screen time can threaten attention span
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Too much time spent watching television and playing video games can double the risk of attention problems in children and young adults, new research finds. The study is the latest of many to point out
the ill effects of excessive screen time, whether at the computer or the television. Researcher Edward Swing, a graduate student at Iowa State University, compared participants who watched TV or played video games less than two hours a day — the recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics for children aged 2 and older — to those who watched more.
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Sugar, not just salt, linked to high blood pressure
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Eating too much sodium can push your blood pressure into the danger zone. Now, researchers are reporting that eating too many sweets—or drinking too much soda—may have a similar effect.
People who consume a diet high in fructose, a type of sugar and a key ingredient in high-fructose corn syrup, are more likely to have high blood pressure (hypertension), according to a new study.
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Study: Kids still feasting on junk food ads
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For kids, the appeal of sweets, sugary sodas and artery-clogging burgers has a lot to do with their exposure to advertising — they see it, they want it. And despite ongoing efforts from federal health agencies and advocacy groups, children are still seeing too much televised promotion of unhealthy foods. That's the message from a new study, to be
published in the September issue of Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, that sought to evaluate the content of food advertising aimed at children, and to gauge changes in ad exposure from 2003 to 2007.
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