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IVF babies may face greater odds of cancer
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Babies conceived by in vitro fertilization appear likelier to get cancer by age 19 than children conceived naturally, according to a study of more than 2 million Swedish births over about 20 years published in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers found that 53 out of nearly 27,000 IVF babies studied developed childhood cancer compared with 38 that would be expected in non IVF children, the Associated Press reports, representing a 42 percent
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2010 Annual Leadership Conference registration opens
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Registration for the 2010 NACHRI Annual Leadership Conference (formerly the Annual Meeting) is now open. We'll be in Minneapolis this year from Oct. 17-20. Act now to take advantage of early bird
discounts.
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Call for proposals - 2011 Creating Connections Conference
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The call for proposals for the 2011 NACHRI Creating Connections Conference is now open. Plan to join your colleagues in Baltimore on March 13 – 16, 2011, and submit your proposal today.
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Now in over 400 hospitals nationwide and many leading Children's Hospitals, the HALO® SleepSack® wearable blanket helps reduce the risk of SIDS by
replacing loose blankets in the crib. Educate parents and model safe sleep in your hospital while delivering the highest standard of care. Request a FREE SAMPLE today!
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Point-of-sale advertising major cause of teen smoking, study shows
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Point-of-sale tobacco advertising works impressively well on teens — so well that federal regulators should consider barring such marketing efforts from convenience stores, gas stations and small
groceries, a Stanford University School of Medicine researcher said. A study to be published in the August issue of Pediatrics led by Lisa Henriksen, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, reports that teens' exposure to cigarette advertising at retail outlets substantially increases the odds they will start smoking.
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Food, fun — and fat
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As the nation struggles to tame an epidemic of obesity in young and old — and the heart disease and diabetes that are its inevitable handmaidens — attention has increasingly trained on fast
food marketing, everything from ads to prizes to Internet games. Federal agencies are checking. Watchdogs are growling. And companies are responding. The stakes — economically and medically — are substantial.
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Kids' high cholesterol may drop naturally
The Vancouver Sun
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Very high cholesterol levels in kids may decline over time even without intervention, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have found. The findings add to an ongoing debate over the importance of high cholesterol in children, and whether cholesterol-lowering drugs are appropriate when changes in diet and physical activity don't cut it. Such drugs, including statins, are used in adults to reduce
the risk of heart disease, a major killer in Western countries. But it isn't clear if they also work for kids.
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Medical studies involving kids may be prone to bias
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A review of nearly 150 recently published studies on children's health found that approximately half were at serious risk for bias and distorted results, researchers say. The Johns Hopkins review of pediatric clinical trials found that 40 to 60 percent either had design flaws that could result in bias or that the researchers did not properly describe steps they had taken to minimize that risk.
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Parents finding benefit in teaching babies sign language as well
as speech
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For parents, hardly anything is as satisfying as being able to communicate with their children. But speech
requires development of three muscle groups. Toddlers typically have motor control of their hands and fingers months sooner. Teaching a short vocabulary of American Sign Language - milk, more, please, and a handful of other words - is so simple that parents are networking, classes are spreading, and how-to sites are booming.
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Parents, doctors often under-treat children for pain
First Coast News
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Parents have always nursed their kids through illness and patched up bumps and bruises. But today, with hospitals sending most kids home within hours of surgery, parents are also being asked to
oversee their children's recoveries and pain management. About 84 percent of pediatric surgeries are performed as outpatient procedures, says pediatrician Zeev Kain, chairman of anesthesiology at the University of California-Irvine.
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Vaccine reduces pneumonia and complications in infants
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A pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduced in the U.S. 10 years ago appears to reduce pneumonia and serious associated complications, such as blood infections, in the vaccine's target range, children
less than a year old, according to new research. However, pneumonia and associated complications, including a lung infection called empyema, increased in older children, the study found. The results also show a narrowing of racial disparities in the rates of pneumonia and associated severe complications.
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Treating the loneliness of a rare type of allergy
9News - Denver
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Doctors at two different hospitals in the metro area are treating a rare type of food allergy. Doctors at both National Jewish Health and The Children's Hospital are teaming up to diagnose the rare
condition. Children with eosinophilic esophagitis have severe reactions to many foods. Their esophagus can swell up making it so some of them cannot eat at all.
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Whooping cough vaccine not linked to seizures
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There is little need to worry about serious side effects if your toddler is getting vaccinated against whooping cough, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. "Our findings provide reassuring evidence that the vaccine is not associated with acute seizure events and is safe for routine immunization in early childhood," they write in the journal Pediatrics.
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Parents, teachers must play key role in stopping bullying of obese kids
Pocono Record
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Among the many physical and psychological problems confronted by our obese youth, we can now add one more. Obese preteens are more likely to be bullied than their normal-weight peers. According to a study published in the May issue of Pediatrics, weight is more important than gender, race and socioeconomic status in predicting who will be the target of bullying among third- to sixth-graders. Rates of bullying among sixth-graders
varied depending upon who was the source of the information. Moms reported that 45 percent of their kids were bullied whereas only 25 percent of the kids felt that way.
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