Archive for the ‘Pediatrics’ Category
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Children who under-achieve at school may just have poor working memory rather than low intelligence according to researchers who have produced the world's first tool to assess memory capacity in the classroom.
The researchers from Durham University, who surveyed over three thousand children, found that ten per cent of school children ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
According to a recent article published on bmj.com, antioxidants and nutrients do not help children with Down syndrome develop.
Down syndrome (trisomy 21) is a disorder caused by the presence of an extra 21st chromosome. It is associated with impairment of cognitive ability and physical growth. It is the most prevalent ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
According to a recent article published on bmj.com, antioxidants and nutrients do not help children with Down syndrome develop.
Down syndrome (trisomy 21) is a disorder caused by the presence of an extra 21st chromosome. It is associated with impairment of cognitive ability and physical growth. It is the most prevalent ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The California Department of Public Health this week is observing "Black Infant Health Week" to focus on reducing the gap between black and white infant mortality rates, the Contra Costa Times reports. According to the Times, black infants in California are twice as likely as infants of any other race ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Researchers from the Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment at the University of Granada have adapted a set of assessment criteria created by lecturers from the USA to the Spanish language. This system makes it possible to assess abilities, attitudes and learning capacities of pre-school children when fulfilling different ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute has announced that it has received a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study ways to prevent global prematurity and stillbirth. Prematurity claims the lives of over 1 million newborn babies worldwide each year. It is the leading cause of ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Craniosynostosis, the premature fusion of the skull, is estimated to affect one out of every 2,000 babies. For the past several years, physicians have used two procedures to correct the problems. One procedure was to make an incision from ear to ear, strip back the scalp of the infant and ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
A study by scientists in the US suggests that eating artificial sweeteners could make people put on weight because experiments on laboratory rats showed that those eating food sweetened with artificial sweeteners ate more calories than their counterparts whose food was sweetened with normal sugar.
The study is the work of ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
William F. Balistreri, MD, Editor of The Journal of Pediatrics, has been honored with the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) 2007 Distinguished Service Award, recognizing his sustained commitment and contribution to the AASLD as well as to the liver disease community. He is the first pediatrician ...
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