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First Edition: July 1, 2013

Today's headlines include a variety of weekend news reports, including coverage of the Obama administration's final contraceptive coverage rule as well as a range of other stories on health law implementation issues.

1 Jul 2013

Teva signs agreement with Verinata Health for commercialization of verifi prenatal test in Israel

Illumina, Inc. today announced that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. signed an exclusive agreement with Verinata Health, an Illumina company, for the commercialization of the verifi non-invasive prenatal test in Israel.

1 Jul 2013

WHO's new HIV treatment guidelines call for immediate ART for HIV-infected children

The World Health Organization's new HIV treatment guidelines, released today at the 2013 International AIDS Society Conference, include new antiretroviral therapy recommendations for HIV-infected children, and will mean that more children will be on better treatments.

1 Jul 2013

Buffalo's autism center provides faster diagnosis to children with autism spectrum disorders

For families with a child on the autism spectrum, early intervention is the mantra. The earlier their child is diagnosed, the sooner intervention can start, making a tremendous difference in the life of both the child and family.

29 Jun 2013

Researchers complete 25-year follow-up study on infants with iron deficiency in Costa Rica

Iron deficiency is a worldwide problem, especially in developing countries and among infants and pregnant women. In infancy, iron deficiency is associated with poorer cognitive, motor, and social-emotional outcomes. In a new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers report on a 25-year follow-up of infants studied in Costa Rica for iron deficiency.

29 Jun 2013

Researchers investigate enteral nutrition, caloric requirements among critically ill children

For the first time, researchers investigated enteral nutrition and caloric requirements (CR) among critically ill children in a new report published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This study also showed the value of including registered dietitians in the medical team.

28 Jun 2013

Coughs give vital clues to confirm the presence of pneumonia in children

A new method, which analyzes the sounds in a child's cough, could soon be used in poor, remote regions to diagnose childhood pneumonia reliably. According to Udantha Abeyratne from the University of Queensland in Australia and colleagues, this simple technique of recording coughs with a microphone on the patient's bedside table, has the potential to revolutionize the management of childhood pneumonia in remote regions around the world.

28 Jun 2013

Use of antibacterial soaps containing chemical triclocarban may harm nursing babies

A mother's prolonged use of antibacterial soaps containing the chemical triclocarban may harm nursing babies, according to a recent study from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

28 Jun 2013

Study shows infants can recognize each other's emotions

Although it may seem difficult for adults to understand what an infant is feeling, a new study from Brigham Young University finds that it's so easy a baby could do it.

28 Jun 2013

Study: Children with Crohn's disease have enterovirus in their intestines

A new study reveals that all children with Crohn's disease that were examined had a commonly occurring virus - an enterovirus - in their intestines. This link has previously not been shown for this chronic inflammatory intestinal disorder. The findings are being published today in the latest issue of the international journal Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology.

28 Jun 2013

Children with congenital heart disease require higher levels of Vitamin D intake prior to surgery

Until now, there has been no research dedicated to the importance of Vitamin D supplementation in children with congenital heart disease (CHD). However, over the past few years, researchers at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute and Cardiovascular Surgery Program teamed with the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group to understand the impact of cardiac surgery on the Vitamin D status of infants and children, to be printed next month in Anesthesiology.

27 Jun 2013

Community wide interventions hold promise as effective approach to reduce childhood obesity rates

Community wide interventions hold promise as an effective approach to reducing childhood obesity rates according to new research from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and Tufts University School of Medicine.

27 Jun 2013

Administering immunoglobulins to pregnant women may prevent Rh blood disorder in newborns

Swedish researchers determined that administering anti-D antibodies (immunoglobulins) to pregnant women who were Rhesus D (RhD) negative could prevent hemolytic disease in the infant.

27 Jun 2013

Researchers to use $6.3M grant to develop novel therapeutic approaches for pediatric sarcomas

Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital will use a $6.3 million grant to further their study of pediatric sarcomas, a rare form of the disease that affects bone or soft tissue and accounts for 11 percent of all childhood cancers.

27 Jun 2013

Covered California selects Delta Dental to offer affordable dental coverage to children

Delta Dental of California announced today its selection by Covered California as one of six companies that will make affordable dental coverage available to California children up to 19 years old in the state's health exchange.

27 Jun 2013

Researchers use neuroimaging abnormalities to detect timing of abusive head trauma in infants

Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, Pennsylvania) have categorized the appearance and evolution of abnormalities on neuroimages that represent abusive head trauma (AHT) in infants.

26 Jun 2013

Study: Despite struggles with poverty, more children getting health insurance

Families in the United States are making gains in education and health, two key factors in their overall well-being, a report released on Monday showed, adding to data that suggests the U.S. economy is slowly rebounding from the 2007-2009 recession. Still, the latest findings on the state of U.S. children and their parents by the Annie E. Casey Foundation found many families continue to struggle ... Most states also saw more children with health insurance, improvements in birth weights, and fewer youth deaths between 2005 and 2011, it said (Heavey, 6/24).

26 Jun 2013

Many states missing out on Medicaid money for prisoners

Only a dozen states have taken advantage of a long-standing option to stick the federal government with at least half the cost of hospitalizations and nursing home stays of state prison inmates. The other states have left tens of millions of federal dollars on the table, either because they didn't know about a federal rule dating to 1997 or they were unable to write the laws and administrative processes to take advantage of it. States and localities have a constitutional obligation to provide adequate health care to prisoners, and they must pay for it out of their own budgets (Vestal, 6/25).

26 Jun 2013

Reason for large increase in hospitalizations of children with IBD unclear, researchers report

The largest investigation to date has found a dramatic increase in the number of hospitalizations for children with inflammatory bowel disease during the past decade in the United States.

26 Jun 2013

Researchers examine effect of ADHD in children recovering from mild traumatic brain injury

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Chicago have found that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are more likely to demonstrate a moderate disability after sustaining a mild traumatic brain injury than children without ADHD.

26 Jun 2013

Child Health News

First Edition: July 1, 2013

Teva signs agreement with Verinata Health for commercialization of verifi prenatal test in Israel

WHO's new HIV treatment guidelines call for immediate ART for HIV-infected children

Buffalo's autism center provides faster diagnosis to children with autism spectrum disorders

Researchers complete 25-year follow-up study on infants with iron deficiency in Costa Rica

Researchers investigate enteral nutrition, caloric requirements among critically ill children

Coughs give vital clues to confirm the presence of pneumonia in children

Use of antibacterial soaps containing chemical triclocarban may harm nursing babies

Study shows infants can recognize each other's emotions

Study: Children with Crohn's disease have enterovirus in their intestines

Children with congenital heart disease require higher levels of Vitamin D intake prior to surgery

Community wide interventions hold promise as effective approach to reduce childhood obesity rates

Administering immunoglobulins to pregnant women may prevent Rh blood disorder in newborns

Researchers to use $6.3M grant to develop novel therapeutic approaches for pediatric sarcomas

Covered California selects Delta Dental to offer affordable dental coverage to children

Researchers use neuroimaging abnormalities to detect timing of abusive head trauma in infants

Study: Despite struggles with poverty, more children getting health insurance

Many states missing out on Medicaid money for prisoners

Reason for large increase in hospitalizations of children with IBD unclear, researchers report

Researchers examine effect of ADHD in children recovering from mild traumatic brain injury

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