October 28, 2015 Fiber-Loving Teens Have Lower Heart, Diabetes Risks Teenagers who eat a lot of fiber-rich foods, such as vegetables and whole grains, are less likely to have risk factors for diabetes and heart disease
October 28, 2015 Texas community rallies around local cop’s ailing 2-week-old daughter As a Texas couple waits for doctors to pinpoint what may be causing their newborn daughter’s strokes and seizures, their community is rallying behind them by raising money for the little girl’s medical expenses, Fox4News.com reported.
October 28, 2015 Kids Living With Smokers Miss More School, U.S. Study Shows Children living with people who smoke indoors miss more school than their classmates living in smoke-free households, according to a new study
October 28, 2015 Acupuncture Safe in Kids, Study Finds Treating kids with acupuncture is a common practice and generally safe. Researchers at the University of Alberta studied data from different countries spanning 60 years. They looked at the association between needle acupuncture and the different adverse events in children
October 28, 2015 For children with autism, brain inflexibility may explain behavior New research has found that the brains of children with autism are relatively inflexible at switching from task to task, correlating to behaviors characteristic of the disorder.
October 28, 2015 Child 'Sexting' Not as Common as Experts Thought Sexually explicit material isn't as widespread on kids' cell phones as some surveys have suggested, researchers have found
October 28, 2015 Nighttime or Violent TV Tied to Tots' Sleep Woes If your preschooler can't sleep — turn off the violence and nighttime TV. That's the message in a new study that found sleep problems are more common in 3- to 5-year-olds who watch television after 7 p.m. Watching shows with violence — including kids' cartoons — also was tied to sleeping difficulties
October 28, 2015 HIV second highest killer of South African youth, statistics office says HIV was the third leading cause of natural deaths in South Africa in 2013, up three places from the previous year, and the second highest killer of young people, a survey by the national statistics agency showed on Tuesday.
October 28, 2015 Antipsychotic use growing in US kids and teens Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed during almost one in three of all visits kids and teens make to psychiatrists in the United States, according to a new study, up from about one in eleven during the 1990s
October 28, 2015 NYC maternity ward worker tests positive for tuberculosis Newborns may have been exposed to tuberculosis after an employee in a Manhattan hospital maternity ward tested positive for the disease.
