http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—This past flu season started earlier, peaked earlier and led to more adult hospitalizations and child deaths than most flu seasons, U.S. health officials reported Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-early-severe-flu-season-big.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:00:01 EST news290435878 A new Lancet series on maternal and childhood nutrition finds that over 3 million children die every year of malnutrition—accounting for nearly half of all child deaths under 5. Along with state-of-the-art global estimates on the long-term burden of malnutrition, the series presents a new framework for prevention and treatment that considers underlying factors, such as food security, social conditions, resources, and governance. Professor Robert Black, Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, led the consortium of experts who produced this series—a follow-up to the groundbreaking 2008 Lancet Nutrition Series, which revealed how pivotal the first 1,000 days—from the start of pregnancy until the child's second birthday—are to the well-being of both the individual and the society in which he or she lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-nutrition-days-life-crucial-childhood.html Health Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:00:03 EST news289670054 In recent years, the world has reduced preventable child deaths by 4 million a year. But 7 million children still die from preventable causes annually, and little progress has been made in the death rate of newborn babies and their mothers from the strains of childbirth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-forum-explores-high-price-children.html Health Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:20:03 EST news285840411 More and more newborn babies are dying annually despite greater knowledge about what kills them, and cheap and simple measures to save them, a global conference in Johannesburg heard Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-experts-ramped-action-newborn.html Health Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:00:01 EST news285262174 Alzheimer's disease is the fastest growing threat to health in the US. HIV/AIDS and alcohol are severely eroding the health of Russians. Violence is claiming the lives of young men in large swaths of Latin America, constituting a homicide-driven health crisis. Despite health gains in sub-Saharan Africa, infectious diseases still cause hundreds of thousands of child deaths. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-countries-world-grappling-health.html Health Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:00:01 EST news281642784 The first ever review of abuse cases related to child death or serious injury in Northern Ireland will be launched at Queen's University today (24 January 2013). The review, Translating Learning into Action, was commissioned by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) and was carried out by researchers at Queen's University and the NSPCC. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-queen-nspcc-publish-northern-ireland.html Health Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:20:01 EST news278184360 (HealthDay)—The number of child abuse and neglect cases reported in the United States in 2011 fell for the fifth consecutive year, according to a new federal government report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-child-abuse-declines-5th-straight.html Health Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:10:47 EST news274633836 Measures of uncertainty should be taken into account when estimating progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4 (to reduce the mortality rate of children under 5 years by two thirds from the 1990 level by 2015) in order to give more accurate assessments of countries' progress, according to a study published in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-method-quantifies-uncertainty-child-mortality.html Health Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:00:08 EST news274465391 Marking the fourth annual World Pneumonia Day, November 12th, world leaders and the Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia are calling for major efforts in the fight against childhood pneumonia, which remains the number one killer of children under age five. Pneumonia claimed 1.3 million lives in 2011 alone, and was responsible for nearly one in five global child deaths. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-pneumonia-killer-children-decline-global.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:57:11 EST news271936622 A new study by researchers in Boston Children's Hospital's Division of Emergency Medicine indicates that a nationwide standard on booster seat laws for children 4 feet 9 inches and shorter, or up to 8 years old, would save lives. The findings were published online Nov. 5, 2012, in the journal Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-standardized-booster-seat-laws-children.html Pediatrics Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:06:21 EST news271343171 (AP) — A deadly form of a common childhood illness has been linked to the mysterious child deaths in Cambodia that sparked alarm after a cause could not immediately be determined, health officials said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-cambodia-deaths-tied-common-child.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:16:27 EST news261026179 Preventable childhood deaths caused by illnesses such as pneumonia and diarrhea can be nearly eliminated in 10 years according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the National Institutes of Health. In a new commentary featured in the June issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers outline a strategy and benchmarks for curbing childhood preventable deaths and recommend a new common vision for a global commitment to end all preventable child deaths. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-outline-child-deaths.html Health Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:51:30 EST news258911485 Since 1990, annual maternal deaths have declined by almost one half and the deaths of young children have declined from 12 million to 7.6 million in 2010. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-maternal-child-deaths-women-children.html Health Wed, 13 Jun 2012 04:21:25 EST news258780077 Pneumonia and diarrhea are among the top causes of childhood deaths around the world, particularly among the poor, said a report out Friday by the UN Children's Fund. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-pneumonia-diarrhea-killers-kids-unicef.html Health Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:35:12 EST news258348905 In 2010, preventable infectious diseases were responsible for almost two-thirds of the 7.6 million deaths of children under five worldwide, according to new estimates published Online First in The Lancet. Although child deaths have declined by 26% (2 million) since 2000, and despite major reductions in some of the leading causes of death (diarrhoea, pneumonia, and measles), few countries are going to achieve international targets for improving child survival with less than 3 years before the 2015 deadline for Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4*. Indeed, only tetanus, measles, and HIV/AIDS have declined sufficiently to meet MDG4, yet they account for just a small fraction of global under 5 mortality. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-infectious-diseases-two-thirds-global-child.html Health Thu, 10 May 2012 18:30:04 EST news255885775 The African nation of Niger has ousted Afghanistan as the worst place in the world to be a mother, largely due to hunger, according to an annual report out Tuesday by Save the Children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-niger-worst-mother.html Health Tue, 08 May 2012 11:38:12 EST news255695885 A study released today by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has identified the most feasible and impactful solutions for Nigeria's immunization program that could offer the best hope yet for scaling up vaccine access to the nation's most rural areas and taking aim at the country's precipitous number of child deaths. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-solutions-nigeria-childhood-mortality-crisis.html Health Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:05:42 EST news253451136 Malaria continues to be a major disease worldwide, but while funding projects are working hard to improve malaria prevention it is difficult to measure how effective these interventions are. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Malaria Journal has used a Lives Saved Tool (LiST) model to show that the increase in funding for the prevention of malaria has prevented 850,000 child deaths in the decade between 2001 and 2010 across Africa. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-malaria-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:23:48 EST news252123822 About 450 million children will be physically and mentally stunted over the next 15 years unless the world takes action to tackle malnutrition, a new report from Save the Children warned Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-malnutrition-million-children-stunting.html Health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:20:03 EST news248519342 The impact of unsafe water and sanitation on the death rates of children under five and mothers in the year after childbirth has been quantified for the first time by Canadian-based researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-quantifies-impact-unsafe-poor-sanitation.html Health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:40:01 EST news248501729 Children who live in households that own at least one insecticide-treated bed net are less likely to be infected with malaria and less likely to die from the disease, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-insecticide-treated-bed-nets-lowers-child.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:42:40 EST news234549731