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Daily Mail, UK: Heel prick blood tests DO hurt your baby, says study
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
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Researchers say some procedures often carried out on newborn infants trigger a pain response in the brain – even though the children appear to be unperturbed. The findings could have implications for the way seriously ill babies are treated in hospital,...
Tags: newborn infant, study, children, brain
Birth defect linked to dual infections
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility It can be found during an ultrasound, but surgery to repair it cannot be performed until after a baby is born. About 25 babies are born with the defect each year in Utah, where it is more prevalent than in the rest of the country. Worldwide, the problem...
Tags: birth, babies, children, birth defects, Utah Birth Defect Network
Assets Rise at Charity Arm of Major Fund
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Total funds at The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, the charity arm of TCI, more than doubled in the year ended Aug. 31, 2007, to £802 million, or $1.6 billion, according to a filing with Britain’s Charity Commission...Jamie Cooper-Hohn, the wife...
Tags: children
FOX News: Pacifiers May Increase Child's Risk of Ear Infections
Lyman :: WY :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Pacifiers May Increase Child's Risk of Ear Infections Friday, June 20, 2008 New research indicates that babies who are prone to ear infections should not use a pacifier, BBC News reported Friday. A five-year study, which is published in The Journal of...
Tags: children, study, ear infections
Indian gov't warns of harmful effects of radiation from mobile phones
New Delhi :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Mobile Phones Warning people about harmful effects of radiation from mobile phones, the Indian government has asked service providers and makers to avoid promotional advertisements showing vulnerable segments like children and pregnant women using cell...
Tags: children, health, mobiles phones
Law aims to reduce back-over accidents
Raleigh :: NC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Eleven North Carolina children died during a recent two-year period when drivers backed over them, state insurance officials said. And nationally, as many as two American children a week die in back-over accidents, according to the nonprofit group Kids...
Tags: north carolina, accidents, children, driver
Mothers wanting to get back to jobs at disadvantage: study
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 1 year ago
Credibility E ven though these mothers may be highly skilled and qualified individuals, they have to accept lower status and lower paying jobs once they resume their pre-birth routine, the study found. The study, by researchers at New Zealand's Massey University,...
Tags: children
Beijing can't muzzle outrage over deadly collapsed schools
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility It's the controversy that won't disappear, no matter how hard Beijing tries. Despite heavy official pressure to drop the issue, China's media and ordinary citizens are still angrily discussing the shoddily built schools that killed thousands of children...
Tags: earthquake, children
PCHR Weekly Report: 11 Palestinians killed, 25 wounded
Hebron :: Palestine | about 1 year ago
Credibility Palestinians, including 2 children and an elderly man, killed by Israeli forces, and 25 Palestinians, including 9 children and 5 women, wounded by Israeli forces in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Women in Khuzaa village whose homes were destroyed in...
Tags: israel, children, forces, kill, gaza, palestine, hamas, West Bank, homes, Israeli
Kids Count report card released
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The percentage of underweight babies born in the U.S. has increased to its highest rate in 40 years, according to a new report that also documents a recent rise in the number of children living in poverty. The data on low birth weights is worrisome because...
Tags: children, babies, infancy, health, lead levels
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