Topic: Children'S Health

HIBS' goalkeeper was at the city's Sick Kids Hospital yesterday to give youngsters presents to celebrate the festival of Eid. Graham Stack and...

New self-harm fad rampant in US teens

Agencies . New York: The self-mutilation culture has acquired a new fashion aura. American doctors have come across a little-reported form of...
Children under the age of five who don't get enough sleep at night are more likely than kids who do get their 40 winks to become obese at a young ...

Biscuit & ice cream fuels obesity in kids

Flinders University researcher Jane Scott and colleagues found that babies as young as four weeks old are growing up on a diet of biscuits, ice...

Diet-induced obesity speeds up leukaemia

Obesity caused due to fatty diet can directly speed up the progression of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), according to a study at The Saban...

Review: Helping Kids Cope With Chemo

Although nausea and vomiting are common in children undergoing chemotherapy, few quality studies identify absolutely the best way to prevent and...
Pitching a breastfeeding book for grandparents day? Hmm. My interest was piqued. It actually makes sense, I discovered. The Complete Book of...
A new study published in this week's PLoS Medicine aims to evaluate the possibility that exposure of a fetus to computed tomography or radionuclide...
HIV-infected children in South Africa who were exposed to the drug nevirapine at birth (used to help prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission) and...
The first study to demonstrate that obesity can directly accelerate the progression of acute lymphoblastic leukemia has been conducted at The Saban...