Health
Massive shifts reshape the health landscape worldwide
Globally, health advances present most people with a devastating irony: avoid premature death but live longer and sicker.
Dec 13, 2012
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Page 4 - News tagged with childhood mortality
Oncology & Cancer
Diesel fumes increase risk of childhood brain tumours, study finds
(Medical Xpress)—A link between brain tumours in children and their parents' exposure to diesel exhaust fumes before birth has been found by researchers at The University of Western Australia-affiliated Western Australian ...
Dec 11, 2012
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Health
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.
Jul 13, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Rigged to explode? Inherited mutation links exploding chromosomes to cancer
An inherited mutation in a gene known as the guardian of the genome is likely the link between exploding chromosomes and some particularly aggressive types of cancer, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory ...
Jan 19, 2012
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Health
Preterm birth associated with higher risk of death in early childhood, young adulthood
In a study that included more than 600,000 individuals born in Sweden between 1973-1979, those born preterm (less than 37 weeks gestation) had a higher risk of death during early childhood and young adulthood than persons ...
Sep 20, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The ties that bind: Grandparents and their grandchildren
Close your eyes for a moment, open your treasure trove of memories and take a step back in time to your childhood. Do you remember your grandfather gently scooping you up into his warm and comforting embrace? Or sitting by ...
May 13, 2011
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Pediatrics
Babies in Tigray dying at 4 times pre-war levels, study says
Babies in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate before the war cut off access to most medical care for over 5 million people, according to the most sweeping study ...
Oct 6, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Early screening may reduce breast cancer deaths by more than half in childhood cancer survivors
Early initiation (at ages 25 to 30) of annual breast cancer screening with breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with or without mammography, might reduce breast cancer mortality by half or more in female survivors of ...
Jul 7, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Common sense health for young adult cancer survivors
Many factors influence the life expectancy of childhood cancer survivors: not getting enough exercise, being underweight, and being worried about their future health or their health insurance. These are the findings of research ...
Apr 10, 2014
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Health
New PLOS collection: Child mortality estimation methods
Child mortality is a key indicator not only of child health and nutrition but also of the implementation of child survival interventions and, more broadly, of social and economic development. Millennium Development Goal 4 ...
Aug 28, 2012
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