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Government safety officials have not found a connection between a new kind of Pampers diapers and the severe skin reactions reported by some parents' groups. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday that it has reviewed 4,700 complaints, but found no specific cause linking Pampers ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Italian researchers offer some hopeful news for parents of colicky babies: a daily dose of "good" bacteria may help their child to cry less. After three weeks of treatment with probiotic bacteria, babies cried for an average of about a half-hour a day, while infants who received a placebo were still crying for an hour and ...

The NAACP says first lady Michelle Obama will talk about her campaign against childhood obesity when she addresses the organization's annual convention in Kansas City on July 12. Mrs. Obama launched her "Let's Move" campaign to bring attention to the U.S. childhood ...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged 1.5 billion dollars Monday to support family planning, maternal and child health and nutrition programs in developing countries. "This new pledge will complement our spending in other areas that affect women's and children's health such as developing and delivering children's vaccines and preventing pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and HIV/AIDS ...

In a story June 2 about a project to bring Iran's health house model to the Mississippi Delta, The Associated Press erroneously reported the Delta region's infant mortality rate as 281 deaths per 1,000. Over a five-year period in the region, there was a total of 281 deaths, according to the Mississippi ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - "Bubble boy disease" is now part of national U.S. newborn screening guidelines, adopted by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius last week. The disease -- formally known as severe combined immunodeficiency, or SCID - was named for David Vetter, a Texas boy who spent his short life inside a sterile plastic cocoon to avoid infections ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Health ministers, alarmed at the growing number of obese children, agreed on Thursday to try to reduce children's consumption of junk food and soft drinks by asking member states to restrict advertising and marketing. The global recommendations on marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children are guidelines to the 193 member states of the World Health ...

RIVERSIDE, California (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. public school districts are teaming up with local farmers to put more fresh fruits and vegetables on lunchroom menus, without breaking budgets or getting any help from celebrity chefs. The schools are taking early steps toward adding more fresh and homemade foods as advocated by British chef Jamie Oliver, who led a campaign ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obese children in grades 3 through 6 are more apt to be bullied by their classmates than children who are trim, regardless of their gender, race, social skills, or academic achievement, a study published today in Pediatrics shows. This finding is "so disturbing to me," Dr. Julie C. Lumeng from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who ...

In a story April 18 about the investigation of a 1996 complaint against pediatrician Earl B. Bradley who is accused of molesting patients, The Associated Press erroneously reported a comment by Jeffrey M. Fried, the chief executive officer at Beebe Medical Center. Fried described Bradley as "quirky." He did not say Bradley's hugging and kissing ...