Topic: Children'S Health
Golf tournaments help teen raise $1 million for Dallas children's hospital that treated himA teenager has reached his goal of raising $1 million for the free Dallas children's hospital that treated him as a child. Ben Sater had vowed to raise the ...
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 ...
Correction: Mississippi health house storyIn 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Correction: Delaware Pediatrician-Abuse storyIn 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 ...
Noel Gallagher played his first concert since splitting from Oasis, earning rave reviews Friday for an acoustic set entirely composed of the band's classics. The guitarist, who quit the British rock group after one bust-up too many with his vocalist brother Liam, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Childhood cancer survivors are at a four-fold increased risk of developing new cancers of the bladder later in life, new research shows. But their risk is still very small; based on the findings, fewer than one-half of ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fueling recent criticism of educational DVDs for toddlers, a new study finds that kids do not improve language skills after viewing one such product, the Baby Wordsworth from the Walt Disney Company's Baby Einstein series. While The ...
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