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Walks through the trees help ADD students concentrate ...scientists aren't sure why

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

For some time, the parents of schoo-aged children with attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have been reporting that allowing children to spend some time outside helps them concentrate, and the effect lasts.

A carefully controlled study out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign confirms it. Students were separated into groups and taken on twenty-minute walks through either the park, a downtown area or a suburban area. Nothing else was ever changed, not the time of day, not the composition of the groups

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Baby's Little Smiles: Building a Relationship with Mom

jerry submitted, created time 2 months 1 week (www.sciam.com)

How smiles—and pouts—are helping researchers probe the essence of the complex mother-infant bond.

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Fat Mum Hastens Path to Childhood Obesity

sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 4 days (www.sciencedaily.com)

There is a correlation between children's obesity rates and those of their mothers, finds a new study. Other factors linked to a child's tendency to become obese include too much time spent in front of the TV and rapidly piling on the pounds in early childhood.

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Lack of time on tummy shown to hinder achievement

sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 3 weeks (www.eurekalert.org)

The American Physical Therapy Association is urging parents and caregivers to ensure that babies get enough "tummy time" throughout the day while they are awake and supervised, in light of a recent survey of therapists who say they've noticed an increase in motor delays in infants who spend too much time on their backs while awake.

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Keeping kids healthy in the summer: common worries dispelled

sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (www.cnn.com)

Many parents are worried their children's safety. Here are some concerns you may have, and some you may not know about. If the parents know about these, they will take care of their children.

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Child Obesity Rate Levels Off

jerry submitted, created time 6 months 4 days (www.time.com)

The steep decades-long rise in child obesity appears to have peaked, according to a new study. Kids may not be getting fatter, but are they getting healthier?

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Food additives and hyperactivity

sea-maid submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (www.bmj.com)

Whether preservatives and colorings cause or exacerbate hyperactive behaviors is an important question for many pediatricians and parents.

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How Safe Are Vaccines?

jerry submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (www.time.com)

Parents worried that vaccines trigger autism are increasingly declining the shots for their kids. That's raising fears that long-dormant diseases could return. What the science says about the real risks—and what you should do.

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Sixty-four cases of measels in the U.S., all but one in unvaccinated patients

Darkfrog submitted, created time 6 months 3 weeks (www.nytimes.com)

Measels is on the rise in the U.S. There have been sixty-four cases this year alone. Only one of these patients can be shown to have had the vaccine. There have been no fatalities so far.

Sixteen of these children are from families who declined vaccination for religious or other resasons, including fear of autism

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ADHD meds don't up kids' drug abuse risk

jane2007 submitted, created time 7 months 3 weeks (www.sciencenews.org)

Two new studies indicate that the stimulants do not increase children's risk of abusing cocaine, nicotine, and other drugs as adults.

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If pregnant women stop smoking, babies are happier

sumsung submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (www.reuters.com)

Mothers who stop smoking while pregnant tend to have cheerier, more adaptable babies, British researchers reported on Wednesday. Babies of women who continued to smoke while pregnant were notably grumpy, and the researchers believe that mothers who can muster the effort to kick the habit are also caring more for their babies in other ways.

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One fourth of American teenage girls have at least one STD.

Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)

We've been talking about Gardasil and Cerverix a lot recently. Sure, lots of parents are reluctant to vaccinate their children before they become teenagers, but a nationwide study reveals that 50% of black teenagers and 20% of white teenagers have at least one STD. The specific age ranges are fourteen to nineteen. And what is the most common infection out there? Shocker of shockers, it's HPV

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A new flu shots will pushed for toddlers to teens

DanyC submitted, created time 9 months 4 days (www.chron.com)

Maybe many of you will say vaccinating all children) is a waste of money and resources because the vaccine isn't that effective, but actually, flu activity in Texas is now widespread, however the side effects it is, we should admit that it keeps the flu from spreading.

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Why are there no boys in the Gardasil commercial?

Darkfrog submitted, created time 9 months 6 days (www.nytimes.com)

Although I knew that it was possible to give the anti-HPV vaccine to boys (it would protect them from getting genital warts in addition to making them less likely to give the cervical-cancer-causing virus to any female partners) I have to admit, the question didn't occur to me. Usually, drug companies are so eager to market their wares to as many people as possible, but there is a real dearth of pro-male HPV vaccine advertising out there.

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FDA to Parents: Do Not Give Tots Cough and Cold Meds

Charles submitted, created time 10 months 1 week (www.sciam.com)

The Food and Drug Administration this week issued a stern health advisory once again warning parents not to give babies under two years of age over-the-counter (OTC) cold and cough medicine because of potentially "serious and anlife-threatening side effects." This includes decongestants, expectorants, antihistamines and antitussives (cough suppressants) that you can pick up at pharmacies and supermarkets, including Wyeth's Robitussin, Novartis, AG's Triaminic and Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol Plus Cold.

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