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New research, presented this morning at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), has identified important associations between Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria and endemic Burkitt Lymphoma (eBL) that may help researchers identify young children who are more susceptible to eBL. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-susceptibility-burkitt-lymphoma.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:54:08 EST news274459994 GPs and other primary care professionals need to warn parents about safely storing medicines and other hazardous household products in an effort to cut the number of poisonings among pre-school children, a study has said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-advice-parents-poisoning-toddlers.html Health Mon, 03 Dec 2012 06:56:08 EST news273740101 (Medical Xpress)—Children who learn how to swim at a young age are reaching many developmental milestones earlier than the norm. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-children-smarter.html Health Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:35:02 EST news272280893 Many child care providers have rules that exclude sick children from care, spurring anxious moments for millions of working parents. In a new University of Michigan poll, one-third of parents of young children report they are concerned about losing jobs or pay when they stay home to care for sick children who can't attend child care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-one-third-parents-jobs-home-sick.html Health Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:09:17 EST news270122940 Exposure to school-age children raises the odds that a person with lung disease who catches a cold will actually suffer symptoms like a runny nose, sore throat and cough, according to a study just published in the Journal of Clinical Virology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-exposure-snot-nosed-kids-ups-severity.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:20:47 EST news267884437 Parents may feel it's clear that missing a nap means their young children will be grumpy and out-of-sorts, but scientists who study sleep say almost nothing is known about how daytime sleep affects children's coping skills and learning. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-preschool-naps.html Health Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:40:25 EST news266852418 Most parents like to believe that their children are more intelligent and insightful than the average person realizes. When it comes to concepts of fairness, they might be right, according to Harvard researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-fairness-young-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:56:51 EST news266828109 Researchers at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, in partnership with The Ohio State University have developed a prototype for child-resistant spray bottles for household cleaning products. If produced, the prototype would provide an alternative to current, more harmful child-resistant spray bottles while still meeting U.S. Consumer Product Safety commission standards for child resistance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-prototype-safer-child-resistant-bottle.html Health Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:49:14 EST news266665709 The diagnosis and treatment of cancer does not only trigger posttraumatic stress disorder in adults and older children; infants and toddlers with cancer also suffer from trauma disorders, as researchers from the University of Zurich and the University Children's Hospital Zurich show for the first time. This discovery should be taken into account while treating children to prevent them from developing long-term psychological disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-young-children-cancer-trauma-disorder.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:13:51 EST news266145217 Young children take merit into account when sharing resources, according to research published Aug. 29 in the open access journal PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-young-children-rewards-based-merit.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:00:02 EST news265478261 (Medical Xpress) -- Children should be taught coping skills the same way they are taught to hold a pen or ride a bike, according to experts from Melbourne University’s Graduate School of Education. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-young-children-taught-coping-skills.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:04:20 EST news264049448 Cow's milk protein allergy (CMPA), although difficult to diagnose in young children, shows a causative relationship to otolaryngic symptoms. A new study in the August journal, Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery suggests an elimination diet may help manage such conditions in children under two and reduce the need for more serious upper airway tests and interventions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-food-hypersensitivity-otolaryngologic-conditions-young.html Surgery Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:08:49 EST news263556466 (Medical Xpress) -- Research from The University of Auckland and Starship Children’s Hospital has given a new understanding of the risk factors for iron deficiency in young children. This knowledge will allow children at risk to be identified more easily and will help in preventing this serious condition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-iron-deficiency-young-children.html Health Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:19:47 EST news261908379 A study published in the June 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that young children who have been investigated for maltreatment by child welfare agencies have a higher prevalence of mental health problems and that very few receive treatment for those problems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-child-welfare-mental-health-problems.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:24:25 EST news259320258 In today's technology-driven world, batteries, especially button batteries, are everywhere. They power countless gadgets and electronic items that we use every day. While they may seem harmless, button batteries can be dangerous if swallowed by children. A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital found that the annual number of battery-related emergency department visits among children younger than 18 years of age more than doubled over the 20-year study period, jumping from 2,591 emergency department visits in 1990 to 5,525 emergency department visits in 2009. The number of button batteries swallowed by children also doubled during this period. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-battery-related-emergency-department-children.html Pediatrics Mon, 14 May 2012 14:47:57 EST news256225615 (Medical Xpress) -- Autism is difficult to diagnose because of a lack of specific biological markers and a variability of symptoms, ranging from mild in some individuals to severely disabling in others. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-scientists-potential-biomarker-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:20:01 EST news254725807 Unintentional poisonings from medicines cause more emergency room visits for young children each year than do car accidents. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-grandparents-prescription-medicines-children-easily.html Health Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:10:02 EST news253804182 (Medical Xpress) -- A new Ryerson University study has found that some preschoolers may perceive overweight children to be not as “nice”. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-preschoolers-tend-negative-perceptions-overweight.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:20:54 EST news252573497 Though the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been steadily climbing— from 6 in 1,000 children in 2002, to nearly 10 in 1,000 children in 2006, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention— little is known about the disorder. But, research with young kids can lead to important insights in how children with developmental abnormalities view the world. This month in the Journal of Visualized Experiments, researchers demonstrate how to use eye-tracking in very young children with autism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-eye-tracking-young-children-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:15:01 EST news252072896 (Medical Xpress) -- Baseball shoulder, gymnast wrist, runner’s knee. These are just a few of the labels sports medicine specialists use to describe the increasing number of repetitive-use injuries they see in young children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-pediatricians-alarm-overuse-sports-injuries.html Health Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:10:01 EST news251614849 New research challenges the conventional thinking that young children use language just as adults do to help classify and understand objects in the world around them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-children-adults-rose.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:32:51 EST news244225964 When grown-ups and kids speak, they listen to the sound of their voice and make corrections based on that auditory feedback. But new evidence shows that toddlers don't respond to their own voice in quite the same way, according to a report published online on December 22 in Current Biology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-toddlers-dont-voice-adults.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:00:13 EST news243777504 A study led by the Medical Research Council in The Gambia in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and published in this week's PLoS Medicine shows for the first time in Africa, that vaccinating young children against the pneumococcus (a bacterium that can cause fatal infections) causes a herd effect in which the entire community is protected against this infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-africa-pneumococcus-immunising-young-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:22:52 EST news238177333 Very young children who live in a home with a swimming pool are at risk of drowning, a leading cause of injury death among toddlers. A study abstract presented Monday, Oct. 17, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in Boston identifies three likely scenarios that precede the drowning of a very young child (ages 1 to 4) in an at-home swimming pool. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-scenarios-at-home-pool-young-children.html Health Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:26:45 EST news238044399 (Medical Xpress) -- Technology developed at the University of Cambridge to detect peripheral visual field loss in young children will enable the earlier detection of brain tumours, potentially saving sight and lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-children-vision-loss-video.html Medical research Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:49:42 EST news237620965 Children as young as 3 are likely to say that things made by humans have owners, but that natural objects, such as pine cones and sea shells, are not owned, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-children-human-made-natural.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:45:26 EST news237116697 (Medical Xpress) -- Vaccinating infants against rotavirus has resulted in dramatic decreases in health care use and treatment costs for diarrhea-related illness in U.S. infants and young children, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study is published in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-rotavirus-vaccination-large-decreases-health.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:58:26 EST news235927888 Between 2009 and 2010, one million more children in America joined the ranks of those living in poverty, bringing the total to an estimated 15.7 million poor children in 2010, an increase of 2.6 million since the recession began in 2007, according to researchers from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-million-children-poverty-census-today.html Health Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:19:03 EST news235923506 Are children as young as five years old so driven by consumerism and fashion that they are in danger of 'losing' their childhood? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-childhood-fashion.html Health Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:56:22 EST news235306569 Young children who watch fast-paced, fantastical television shows may become handicapped in their readiness for learning, according to a new University of Virginia study published in the October issue of the journal Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-fast-paced-fantastical-television-compromise-behavior.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:07:04 EST news235015589