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Girls reaching puberty increasingly early, finds US study
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A U.S. study shows that almost one in four black girls and one in 10 white girls had developed breasts by the age of seven. The findings are the latest in a string of studies showing that girls in the U.S. are reaching puberty sooner, with implications both for the social and emotional wellbeing of girls as well as for their physical health in later life. Early maturation has been shown to cause low self-esteem and doubts about body image, as
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NACHRI is now accepting entries for our 2011 Children's Hospitals Photo Exhibit. The exhibit seeks to show the countless ways children's hospitals care for all children by captivating viewers and
bringing them into the moment. The submission deadline is Nov. 1.
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Children's Hospitals Today summer 2010 issue now online
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The summer 2010 edition of Children's Hospitals Today focuses on public policy issues affecting children's health care and children's hospitals. Gain perspective on legislative changes, family advocacy involvement and electronic health records for children, among many other stories.
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Pet's food bowl traced to illness in young children
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Add this item to the list of dangers facing young children: the pet's food bowl. Dry pet food may be the source of human salmonella outbreak, according to a study done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dry pet food and cross-contamination after feeding a pet in the kitchen is responsible
for salmonellosis outbreak in 21 eastern U.S. states between 2006 and 2008.
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Child injuries drop after NY booster seat law
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Traffic injuries among children ages 4 to 6 declined in New York State in the wake of a law requiring them to be strapped into car booster seats, researchers reported this week. Most U.S. states now require that children who have outgrown traditional car seats use a car booster seat, which raises a child high enough so that the car seatbelts can be positioned properly — with the shoulder strap across the shoulder and not the
neck, and the lap belt across the hips.
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Babies may show signs of
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Signs of autism may show up in babies as young as 1 month old, a new study shows. But the tip-offs are not the usual red flags, such as a lack of eye contact
or smiling, the researchers noted. Instead, they found babies who needed neonatal intensive care and were later diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder were more likely to have abnormal muscle tone and differences in their visual processing than babies who went on to develop normally after time in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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Behavior: Internet use tied to depression in youths
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A large Chinese study suggests that otherwise healthy teenagers are much more vulnerable to depression if they spend too much time on the Internet. Researchers who followed more than 1,000 students at
high schools in Guangzhou — all of them free of anxiety and depression at the start of the study — found that after nine months, rates of severe depression among "pathological" users were 2.5 times those of the others. The study was published Aug. 2, in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
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Transonic Systems new COstatus® Hemodynamic Monitor measures cardiac output and blood volumes in critically ill patients. The set of hemodynamic parameters assists physicians in ICU treatment decisions. Using gold standard indicator dilution technology,
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the specialized care that children's hospitals provide by designing compassionate healing environments. We believe in a better tomorrow for all children - better by design.
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Children's hospitals lobby for fix to drug discount provision in health
reform law
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Children's hospitals say the new healthcare reform law inadvertently denies them drug discounts worth millions of dollars a year — and they want
lawmakers to fix the problem they created. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, is gathering signatures in a letter urging Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to make a technical correction to the new law "at the earliest opportunity." The House has already twice passed legislation that would amend the law.
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Groundbreaking study helps kids with scoliosis
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Donald Katz, an orthotist at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, headed a study that determined exactly how long youngsters with scoliosis should wear their brace each day. "Frankly, this is very reassuring to us that we can be reasonable in our approach," Katz said. "You can get by with basically asking a child to wear it 16 hours a day." Katz said the spinal curve did not worsen in 83 percent of patients who wore a brace
that much. "And none of those patients went to surgery," he added.
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Schools' no-lice policies called overkill by doctors' group
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Head lice — the tiny critters that cause itchy scalps among school kids and strike fear in the hearts of parents — are relatively harmless and should not prevent students from attending school, a national pediatric advisory group now says. The American Academy of Pediatrics advises that "no healthy child should be excluded or miss school because of head lice." The group goes further to recommend that schools drop policies
that prohibit students from coming to class until they are free of lice and lice eggs, called nits.
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Study 'supports need to keep tobacco hidden'
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A study linking shop tobacco displays to increased smoking experimentation by young people reinforces the need to legislate the products out of sight, an
anti-tobacco group says. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, found in California that exposure to tobacco displays and advertising at convenience, liquor and small grocery stores was a risk factor for young people taking up smoking.
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WHO says swine flu pandemic is over
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The World Health Organization declared the swine flu pandemic officially over Tuesday, months after many national authorities started canceling vaccine orders and shutting down hot lines as the disease
ebbed from the headlines. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said the organization's emergency committee of top flu experts advised her that the pandemic had "largely run its course" and the world is no longer in phase six — the highest influenza alert level.
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Demographic disparities found among children with frequent ear infections
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Research has documented that ethnic and socioeconomic disparities exist among patients with conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. Now, a new study by researchers from UCLA and Harvard
University has found disparities among children suffering from repeated ear infections. The findings, published in the August edition of the journal The Laryngoscope, show that frequent ear infections plague white children and children living below the poverty level more than children of other racial or ethnic backgrounds or income levels.
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Tracing the roots of obesity back to the womb
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As doctors and researchers grapple with the U.S.'s runaway rates of obesity, they have begun to look for causes of it in a critical if little understood period of life: the nine months before birth.
Research has found that women who gain too much weight in pregnancy have heavier babies — and that heavier babies are more prone to obesity later on. Until now, researchers had not been able to rule out the role of genes. If heavier mothers give birth to heavier babies, it was presumed, it could be the woman's genes that cause her to gain excessive weight.
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