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published 13 days, 8 hours ago, submitted by
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19 days ago news.yahoo.com — Medication use among children across the United States is dramatically increasing as more kids are being treated for diabetes, asthma and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), researchers report.
Increased prescribing may be due in large part to increasing obesity among children and the health consequences of that trend, researchers say.
"Across all the medication classes we looked at, the rates of use increased -- sometimes dramatically," said study co-author Dr. Donna Halloran, an assistant professor of pediatrics at St. Louis University. "This is particularly concerning, given that several of these diagnoses have been linked to obesity -- diabetes, hypertension, depression, asthma."
The report was published in the November issue of Pediatrics.
For the study, Halloran's team looked at medication use among U.S. children from 2002 to 2005. Using a database of prescription claims from children with private health insurance, they were able to find prescriptions for almost 4 million children. read more...
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published 21 days, 8 hours ago, submitted by
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23 days, 20 hours ago edition.cnn.com — ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Food allergies in American children seem to be on the rise, now affecting about 3 million kids, according to the first federal study of the problem.
But experts said that might be because parents are more aware and quicker to have their kids checked out by a doctor.
About 1 in 26 children had food allergies last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. That's up from 1 in 29 kids in 1997.
The 18 percent increase is significant enough to be considered more than a statistical blip, said Amy Branum of the CDC, the study's lead author. read more...
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published 23 days, 8 hours ago, submitted by
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25 days, 22 hours ago news.yahoo.com — WASHINGTON – Your 9-year-old's eyes hurt during homework? Your teen's a slow reader plagued with headaches? They may have a common yet often missed vision problem: Eyes that don't turn together properly to read.
As many as one of every 20 students have some degree of what eye doctors call "convergence insufficiency," or CI, where eye muscles must work harder to focus up-close. And those standard vision screenings administered by schools and pediatricians won't catch it — they stress distance vision.
When symptoms such as eye strain, headaches, double vision or reading problems trigger the right diagnosis, doctors prescribe any of a hodgepodge of exercises designed to strengthen eye coordination. Now a major government study finally offers evidence for the best approach: Eye training performed in a doctor's office for 12 weeks. read more...
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published 26 days, 8 hours ago, submitted by
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1 month, 1 day ago medindia.net — Some nurseries in England and Wales are serving processed foods, sugary drinks and foods high in additives, salt and fat, a survey has indicated.
It found foods such as crisps, chips and biscuits - banned or restricted in schools - appeared on nursery menus.
The Soil Association campaign group and organic food company Organix surveyed 487 nursery workers and 1,773 parents. read more...
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published 1 month ago, submitted by
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1 month, 9 days ago news.yahoo.com — When drug makers made a surprise announcement this week that they no longer recommend cough and cold remedies for youngsters under 4, they didn't let on that it was the government's idea.And why age 4 rather than the age 6 that pediatricians' wanted?
Because the Food and Drug Administration suggested that, too.
FDA officials proposed the cutoff earlier this year in private discussions with the industry, government and industry officials confirmed Friday. The companies agreed, and this week announced they were "voluntarily" changing their advice to parents.
The maneuvering is an example of how government health officials and the industries they regulate seek to come to an accommodation behind the scenes on tricky issues. In this case, there is scant evidence that the widely used over-the-counter medicines really do work in children. Emergency-room data shows that they sicken some 7,000 kids a year, mostly because of overdoses. read more...
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published 1 month, 10 days ago, submitted by
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1 month, 16 days ago health.msn.com — Over the past two flu seasons, vaccinating children five and younger did not reduce the number of child hospitalizations or doctor's visits linked to influenza, according to results of a new study.
Given the poor match between the flu vaccine and circulating strains during the last two years, "this finding is not surprising," said Dr. Robert Belshe, a professor of medicine and pediatrics and director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the Saint Louis University Medical Center, who was not involved in the study.
"We know that the inactivated vaccine -- the flu shot -- doesn't work real well in children, particularly when the virus has evolved and drifted away from the type that is put in the vaccine," he said. read more...
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published 1 month, 15 days ago, submitted by
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1 month, 19 days ago news.yahoo.com — A top government health official Thursday rejected pediatricians' calls for an immediate ban on over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for young children, saying it might cause unintended harm. But Food and Drug Administration officials at a public hearing also said they were uncomfortable with the lack of solid scientific data to support continued use of OTC remedies with youngsters, particularly from ages 2-6.
A ban — as sought by leading pediatricians' groups — might only drive parents to give adult medicines to their youngsters, said Dr. John Jenkins, who heads the FDA's Office of New Drugs. read more...
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published 1 month, 23 days ago, submitted by
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1 month, 28 days ago health.msn.com — American children are three times more likely to be prescribed psychotropic medications for conditions such as ADHD and bipolar disease than European children are, a new study finds.
Differences in regulatory practices and cultural beliefs about the benefit of medication for emotional and behavioral problems may explain this dramatic difference, the U.S. researchers added. read more...
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published 1 month, 20 days ago, submitted by
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2 months, 1 day ago health.msn.com — Children who have continuing recurrence of croup could be suffering from stomach acid reflux problems, University of Utah researchers report.
Croup is typically recognized by a loud cough that often sounds like the barking of a seal. The condition can cause fast or difficult breathing, and sometimes wheezing. Croup has been thought to be caused by a virus, but upper airway problems have also been suggested as a possible trigger. read more...
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published 2 months, 5 days ago, submitted by
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2 months, 8 days ago nytimes.com — A new government study published Monday has found that the medicines most often prescribed for schizophrenia in children and adolescents are no more effective than older, less expensive drugs and are more likely to cause some harmful side effects. The standards for treating the disorder should be changed to include some older medications that have fallen out of use, the study’s authors said.The results, being published online by The American Journal of Psychiatry, are likely to alter treatment for an estimated one million children and teenagers with schizophrenia and to intensify a broader controversy in child psychiatry over the newer medications, experts said.
Prescription rates for the newer drugs, called atypical antipsychotics, have increased more than fivefold for children over the past decades and a half, and doctors now use them to settle outbursts and aggression in children with a wide variety of diagnoses, despite serious side effects. read more...
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2 months, 11 days ago health.msn.com — Bullying is the top "health" concern among parents with overweight and obese children, according to a new report.
Parents of these children, aged 6 to 13, also are much more likely than parents of children at a healthy weight to call bullying a top health issue for kids, according to a report released Monday by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health. read more...
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published 2 months, 14 days ago, submitted by
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2 months, 15 days ago news.yahoo.com — In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver transplants. Many more may need a new liver by their 30s or 40s, say experts warning that pediatricians need to be more vigilant. The condition, which can lead to cirrhosis and liver failure or liver cancer, is being seen in kids in the United States, Europe, Australia and even some developing countries, according to a surge of recent medical studies and doctors interviewed by The Associated Press. read more...
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3 months, 8 days ago medicalnewstoday.com — Compared to children in Nepal who were not forced into military service, former child soldiers were more likely to present severe mental health problems such as symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. read more...
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published 3 months, 6 days ago, submitted by
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3 months, 8 days ago nytimes.com — The global response to the AIDS epidemic has short-changed children, health workers at the International AIDS Conference said here on Wednesday. Although governments and donors provide large amounts of money for H.I.V. treatment in the developing world, too little of that money reaches children, said Linda Richter, a psychologist in South Africa who delivered the first plenary lecture on children in the history of the conference. read more...
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published 3 months, 9 days ago, submitted by
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3 months, 11 days ago abc.net.au — The Cancer Council study looked at the effect of the labels on more than 4,000 Victorian school students.
A survey - six months after the warnings were introduced - found teenage smokers thought more about quitting.
The study's co-author, Professor Melanie Wakefield, says the results suggest they could cut teenage smoking rates.
"This study is important in demonstrating that graphic cigarette pack health warnings can be influential in potentially reducing youth smoking," she said.
"It's good confirmatory evidence that we've obtained here in Australia, and I think the study will be important for other countries who are considering bringing in these kind of warnings." read more...
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published 3 months, 5 days ago, submitted by
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3 months, 11 days ago abc.net.au — The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne is setting up a new centre to deal with the ethical dilemmas of treating sick children.
The centre will help medical staff make tough decisions, such as whether a dying child has the right to refuse treatment and whether children should be told they're likely to develop a genetic condition in the future.
In Melbourne, Simon Lauder reports.
SIMON LAUDER: Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital sees hundreds of thousands of sick children each year, but every now and then cases come along that pose an ethical dilemma for staff. Early this year two one-year-old twin girls who were joined at the head were brought to the hospital from Bangladesh.
Paediatrician, Dr Hugo Gold, says it posed some tough questions.
HUGO GOLD: They had Hindu parents, they were in a Catholic orphanage and eventually had Catholic and Muslim guardians appointed. They were brought to Australia for evaluation, separation was feasible but with considerable technical challenges, uncertain outcomes and the possibility of devastating complications. read more...
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