How to discuss the Aurora shootings with kids
Details of the tragic shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., continue to flood the media. Richard Rende, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior in the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 26, 2012 |
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"Kiddio" app may help parents get kids to eat more vegetables
(Medical Xpress) -- Parents who are perplexed by their preschooler's dislike of vegetables may find help in a science-based video game that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-funded scientists and their ...
Health
Jul 17, 2012 |
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New studies reveal hidden insights to help inspire vegetable love
Two new studies presented today at the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior's (SNEB) annual conference may make it easier for moms to get their kids to eat – and enjoy – vegetables. Both studies were conducted ...
Health
Jul 16, 2012 |
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Annual report on U.S. kids' health a mixed bag
(HealthDay) -- Infant mortality, preterm births and teen births have dropped across the United States as have violent crime and victimization among children, U.S. health officials reported Friday.
Health
Jul 13, 2012 |
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Heat wave especially dangerous for kids
(Medical Xpress) -- Extreme heat continues to plague the nation with many areas seeing record temperatures. Though everyone needs to take precautions when it comes to dangerous heat, it’s especially important to watch ...
Health
Jul 04, 2012 |
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Foster kids do much better under approach developed by CU School of Medicine
Foster kids who receive mentoring and training in skills such as anger management, healthy communication, and problem solving are less likely to move foster homes or to be placed in a residential treatment center, and more ...
Pediatrics
Jul 03, 2012 |
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Kids who cook hungrier for healthy food choices
(Medical Xpress) -- Getting kids to pass up junk food in favour of healthier fruits and veggies has led to many a mealtime meltdown for parents everywhere. Now, researchers from the University of Alberta offer ...
Health
Jun 27, 2012 |
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Parents -- not TV -- may determine whether kids are active or couch potatoes
Researchers at Oregon State University have confirmed what we knew all along – children in this country are increasingly sedentary, spending too much time sitting and looking at electronic screens.
Overweight and Obesity
Jun 21, 2012 |
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Study: Even 7-year-olds sometimes hurt themselves
(AP) — Even children as young as 7 sometimes cut themselves on purpose, according to a small study believed to be the first to examine self-injury at such early ages.
Pediatrics
Jun 11, 2012 |
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Eat healthy -- your kids are watching
If lower-income mothers want kids with healthy diets, it's best to adopt healthy eating habits themselves and encourage their children to eat good foods rather than use force, rewards or punishments, says a Michigan State ...
Health
May 30, 2012 |
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From one generation to the next, dental care changes
(HealthDay) -- Stephanie Crowe, a mother of three from Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., still remembers dreading a visit to the dentist as a young girl. It was often a painful experience, and her family's dentist showed little empathy ...
Dentistry
May 18, 2012 |
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Open heart surgery for kidney disease patients
One type of open heart surgery is likely safer than the other for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 17, 2012 |
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1 in 3 autistic young adults lack jobs, education
(AP) -- One in 3 young adults with autism have no paid job experience, college or technical schooling nearly seven years after high school graduation, a study finds. That's a poorer showing than those with ...
Pediatrics
May 14, 2012 |
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Doctors want to redefine autism; parents worried
(AP) -- One child doesn't talk, rocks rhythmically back and forth and stares at clothes spinning in the dryer. Another has no trouble talking but is obsessed with trains, methodically naming every station ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Study: No significant rise in seizure risk from common kids' vaccine
(HealthDay) -- Children who receive a combination vaccine known as DTaP-IPV-Hib have no significant increased risk of febrile seizure, a convulsion triggered by a fever, during the week after vaccination, ...
Medications
Feb 22, 2012 |
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