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Katrina still has emotional grip on thousands of children
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Five years later, Hurricane Katrina continues to wreak havoc in the lives of thousands of children who suffer from serious emotional disturbances, often compounded by a lack of stable housing, a study reports today. Children displaced by the storm are nearly five times more likely than other kids to have severe emotional disturbances, and fewer than half of the children believed to need psychological help got it, the study says. It's published in
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2011 NACHRI Impact Award
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Doing great work for your children's hospital in marketing, public relations or fundraising? Apply for the 2011 NACHRI Impact Award, which recognizes excellence in campaigns in these three areas. The awards are given every year at our Creating Connections Conference, which will take place March 13-16, in Baltimore. The deadline for submissions is THIS Friday,
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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. The Call for Proposals closes THIS Friday, Aug. 27.
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Childhood: Hearing loss grows among teenagers
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One in five teenagers suffer from at least slight hearing loss, a significant rise from a decade ago, when the rate was only one in seven. The new study, published last week in The Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed data on about 1,771 youngsters aged 12 to 19 who participated in the
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of 2005-6, and compared the prevalence of hearing loss with that of youngsters who took part in the survey in 1988-94.
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Obesity rates higher among minority girls
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While some research suggests that the incidence of childhood obesity may be leveling off, a new study finds that for certain racial groups the rates may actually be getting higher. The study, to be published in the September issue of Pediatrics, finds that black, Hispanic and American Indian girls have two to three times higher odds of having a high body-mass index (BMI)
compared to white girls.
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Sledding accidents land thousands of kids in ER
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Sledding is popular for only a portion of the year, yet it lands about 20,000 children in the emergency room each year, new research shows. Researchers
analyzed data for 1997-2007 from the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. They found an estimated 229,023 injuries serious enough for ER treatment in that time period among children under 19.
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private website connecting patients with loved ones. Plus, CarePages protects your facility with strict policies that reinforce security. Contact Missey Moe-Cook to learn how CarePages can enhance the patient experience.
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Whooping cough epidemic re-ignites vaccine opt-out debate
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Whooping cough is especially dangerous for babies: eight have died in California so far this year, including one from San Diego County. "Our strategy is to get everybody immunized so we can protect young babies," Dr. Mark Sawyer said. Sawyer is a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Rady Children's Hospital. "Everybody up to age 64 should be getting one version or another of pertussis vaccine," he said. However, that push for
vaccinations by health officials is coming up against a push back from some parents. There's a growing trend in California of parents opting out of vaccines.
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US funding of embryonic stem cell research halted
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U.S. funding of embryonic stem cell research approved by President Barack Obama was halted by a federal judge who ruled that the work violates a law passed to bar the destruction of human embryos. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington today issued an order temporarily stopping the U.S. Health & Human Services Department and the National Institutes for Health
from conducting the studies. The judge cited the still-in-force 1996 Dickey-Wicker Amendment.
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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, COstatus® establishes new diagnostic benchmarks to improve patient outcomes, especially in critically ill children.
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Poltronieri Tang & Associates is a planning and design firm exclusively dedicated to meeting the unique needs of children's healthcare facilities. Our mission is to support
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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Over 450 birthing hospitals and 1 in 5 Children's Hospitals use the HALO® Safer Way to Sleep® Program. Visit us at the
NACHRI Annual Meeting held in Minneapolis in October to learn how your hospital can implement this highly effective SIDS education program. Request a FREE SAMPLE SleepSack® wearable blanket today!
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Prenatal pesticide exposure may raise risk of attention issues in
kids
HealthDay via Bloomberg Businessweek
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Scientists have noted a possible increased risk for attention disorders in children who were exposed to
organophosphate pesticides while in the womb. The effect was not significant at the age of 3 but clearly showed at age 5, according to the report from California researchers that appears in the Aug. 19 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives.
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What is "topgrading," and how do A, B and C players impact your organization? Read this quick overview by Tyler & Company, specializing in children's hospitals executive recruitment. MORE |
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Partner abuse tied to spanking kids
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Violence and psychological abuse between parents often go hand in hand with corporal punishment of their kids, according to a new study. As many as seven in 10 U.S. families reported some form of abuse between couples, such as slaps, kicks or keeping a partner from seeing his or her family. "Nearly two thirds of the toddlers in these families were spanked by a parent within the last month," said Catherine A. Taylor, of Tulane
University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, who led the new study.
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Study: Circumcision rates falling fast in US
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New research about a steep drop in circumcisions made headlines this past week. According to one federal researcher, circumcision rates in U.S. hospitals slid from 56 percent in 2006 to fewer than a third of boys born last year. Doctors caution that those numbers aren't definitive — for instance, they don't include circumcisions not covered by insurance policies or circumcisions performed in religious settings.
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EasyLobby systems screen, badge and track millions of visitors every month at the most prestigious Children's Hospitals, protecting patients, staff and visitors. Free demo.
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Low bone mineral density common in children and teenagers with inflammatory bowel disease
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A thesis from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) is the first in Scandinavia to study the occurrence of low bone mineral density in children and teenagers with inflammatory bowel disease. Half of
the patients in the study showed signs of low bone mineral density. The results emphasize the importance of treating the underlying inflammatory bowel disease more effectively, and of measuring bone mineral density in this group of patients.
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Best medicine in Mesa, Ariz., pediatrician's bag may be a chess set
The Arizona Republic
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Diagnosed with a life-changing disease, Alyssa Schreiner was spending the first winter break of her college years in a hospital instead of celebrating the holidays at her Tempe, Ariz., home. She needed a distraction, and pediatrician Norm Saba provided one. Though the 19-year-old had outgrown her pediatrician, Saba, a family friend, looked in on her at Banner Desert
Medical Center in Mesa each day during the five-week period when she was hospitalized, released and hospitalized again. "He would come into my room to visit me before he went to check on his patients," says Schreiner, now 20 and a University of Arizona transfer student. "One day he brought in a chessboard and gave me his phone number and said, 'We're going to play chess.'"
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