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ITMNs can reduce Japanese Encephalitis transmission to humans

A new study revealed that using treated mosquito nets could drastically reduce the transmission of Japanese Encephalitis to humans.

9 Mar 2011

Classroom environment impacts children's mental health

Children in classrooms with inadequate material resources and children whose teachers feel they are not respected by colleagues exhibit more mental health problems than students in classrooms without these issues, finds a new study in the March issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

9 Mar 2011

Grey matter volume in cerebellum predicts general intelligence

Research suggests that intelligence in humans is controlled by the part of the brain known as the 'cortex', and most theories of age-related cognitive decline focus on cortical dysfunction.

9 Mar 2011

Viewpoints: Romney's record, calling GOP's 'bluff', abortion/birth control funding

The center of the Obama health care reform — the part that has excited the ire of conservatives — is the individual mandate that says everyone must buy health insurance. Romney now says that given the chance, "I would repeal Obamacare." Yet Romney advocated, signed and bragged about a similar requirement in the Massachusetts reform passed while he was governor.

8 Mar 2011

$100 million in grants for medical research announced

More than $100 million in grants was announced this Tuesday for an ambitious research project that will try to find what makes cancer so hard to beat. This project received $21.3 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council grants.

8 Mar 2011

Conflicts in medical management of hemophilia

Hemophilia is a medical disorder that is part of our genetic load as humans. It will never disappear. Therefore, the only way to live with it is to receive adequate medical management. Its effects on those males who have inherited the disorder that affects their blood clotting without treatment includes recurrent hemorrhages (bleeds) into joints as well as internal bleeding. The bleeds are painful, resulting in disuse, disability and crippling. The first signs usually appear in early childhood. A child who suffers a mouth bleed can slowly lose enough blood to result in death.

8 Mar 2011

New discovery in childhood respiratory disease

Researchers have identified a critical part of the process by which one of the world's most common and dangerous early childhood infections, respiratory syncytial virus, causes disease.

8 Mar 2011

Kellogg partners with Action for Healthy Kids to launch Share Your Breakfast program

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, yet the alarming reality is that 1 in 4 children live in homes where food is not always available, sometimes making breakfast hard to come by. As a breakfast leader, Kellogg has partnered with Action for Healthy Kids to launch the Share Your Breakfast program to encourage Americans to help children who might otherwise go without.

8 Mar 2011

CPCS to host event on March 21 to explore feeding children in new parenting culture

Members of the University of Kent's Centre for Parenting Culture Studies will host an event on Monday 21 March to explore 'Feeding children in the new parenting culture'.

8 Mar 2011

New report highlights wide range of hazardous air pollutants emitted from power plants

The American Lung Association today released Toxic Air: The Case for Cleaning Up Coal-fired Power Plants, a new report that documents the range of hazardous air pollutants emitted from power plants and the urgent need to clean them up to protect public health.

8 Mar 2011

U-M receives Connections for Cardiovascular Health grant to expand 'Project Healthy Schools'

The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation program, Connections for Cardiovascular Health, today announced a grant of more than $252,000 to the University of Michigan Health System to expand "Project Healthy Schools."

8 Mar 2011

PHS announces result of OSHPD data on malnutrition rates at all of state's hospitals

Prime Healthcare Services, California's leading healthcare provider and one of the nation's top for-profit healthcare systems, today announced the result of a detailed review of California's 2009 Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Data on malnutrition rates at all of the state's hospitals.

8 Mar 2011

Anacor and iOWH establish research agreement to identify new drugs for shigellosis

Anacor Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ANAC) and the Institute for OneWorld Health (iOWH) today announced the establishment of a joint research agreement to discover antibacterial compounds for treating shigellosis.

8 Mar 2011

Senate Democrats release FY11 CR that seeks to preserve foreign aid, State Department funding at FY10 levels

Senate Democrats on Friday introduced a FY11 continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government through September, "with a vote on the measure, as well as a House-passed proposal, expected" this week, the Washington Post's "2chambers" blog reports (Sonmez, 3/4).

8 Mar 2011

UK Healthcare announces significant milestone for Kentucky Children's Heart Center

UK HealthCare announces a significant milestone for the Kentucky Children's Heart Center at Kentucky Children's Hospital and UK Albert B. Chandler Medical Center.

8 Mar 2011

New advance in tissue engineering

Researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues reported today on a new advance in tissue engineering.

8 Mar 2011

New grant for expanding Project Healthy Schools to reduce childhood obesity

The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation program, Connections for Cardiovascular HealthSM, today announced a grant of more than $232,000 to the University of Michigan Health System to expand Project Healthy Schools.

8 Mar 2011

UNICEF requests $1.4b to assist women, children in humanitarian crises worldwide

UNICEF on Sunday released the Humanitarian Action for Children Report, 2011 (.pdf) "requesting $1.4 billion in its appeal to donors to assist children and women caught in the throes of crises.

8 Mar 2011

FAO report says reducing gender gap in agriculture could help increase food supplies worldwide

Increasing women's access to land, technology and other agricultural resources could significantly reduce the number of hungry people worldwide, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said on Monday in a report, the Associated Press/FoxNews.com reports.

8 Mar 2011

Study shows that satisfaction of older parents rise with more number of children

The satisfaction of young parents decreases with their number of children, while older parents are happier than their childless peers.

8 Mar 2011

Children News and Research

ITMNs can reduce Japanese Encephalitis transmission to humans

Classroom environment impacts children's mental health

Grey matter volume in cerebellum predicts general intelligence

Viewpoints: Romney's record, calling GOP's 'bluff', abortion/birth control funding

$100 million in grants for medical research announced

Conflicts in medical management of hemophilia

New discovery in childhood respiratory disease

Kellogg partners with Action for Healthy Kids to launch Share Your Breakfast program

CPCS to host event on March 21 to explore feeding children in new parenting culture

New report highlights wide range of hazardous air pollutants emitted from power plants

U-M receives Connections for Cardiovascular Health grant to expand 'Project Healthy Schools'

PHS announces result of OSHPD data on malnutrition rates at all of state's hospitals

Anacor and iOWH establish research agreement to identify new drugs for shigellosis

Senate Democrats release FY11 CR that seeks to preserve foreign aid, State Department funding at FY10 levels

UK Healthcare announces significant milestone for Kentucky Children's Heart Center

New advance in tissue engineering

New grant for expanding Project Healthy Schools to reduce childhood obesity

UNICEF requests $1.4b to assist women, children in humanitarian crises worldwide

FAO report says reducing gender gap in agriculture could help increase food supplies worldwide

Study shows that satisfaction of older parents rise with more number of children

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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