An outdated physical education syllabus is failing the fitness of our school children according to Olympic and physical education expert Sheila Wigmore from Sheffield Hallam University. She also highlights the importance of the 2012 Olympics in helping shine a positive light on the UK following the involvement in the Middle East crisis. A member of several British Olympic groups and sport lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheila Wigmore cla...Tuesday, 9-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
McMaster University pediatric cancer specialist Dr. Ronald Barr says the teen gap in cancer care has been overlooked for far too long. Statistics show that gains in survival rates for teenagers and young adults (age 15 - 29) with cancer are dismal when compared to those for youngsters and older adults with the disease."While there have been improvements in survival in children and older adults in recent decades there has been no such impr...Wednesday, 3-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
According to a study published in the journal SLEEP, sleep-disturbed children are more severely depressed and have more depressive symptoms and comorbid anxiety disorders compared with children without sleep disturbance. To ensure the most effective care, parents of sleep-disturbed children are advised to first consult with the child's pediatrician, who may issue a referral to a sleep specialist for comprehensive testing and treatment....Tuesday, 2-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
A new report urges parents and children's doctors to change their thinking about homesickness among children, to see it as a nearly universal but highly preventable and treatable phenomenon -- rather than an unavoidable part of childhood. The report, published in the journal Pediatrics, gives parents and physicians specific guidance to help anticipate and lessen the distress that homesickness can cause among kids and teens at sum...Tuesday, 2-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
According to researchers in New Zealand by leaving young infants sleeping unattended in car seats, even when they're brought indoors, can be a killer.The researchers from the University of Auckland say such behaviour can have have life-threatening consequences, as in some situations the seats may encourage sleep apnea.The team led by Dr. Alistair Jan Gunn, say that while the seats have been proven to be indispensable in protecting inf...Monday, 11-Dec-2006 / [ Details... ]
According to a report by a Canadian expert, children are being exposed to excessive amounts of radiation when they have a CT scan.Ontario's auditor general Jim McCarter has said in a report that in almost 50 per cent of the cases he studied, hospitals did not reduce the exposure setting when children took the high-tech diagnostic exam.McCarter says because children's organs are more sensitive to radiation than those of adults, a child who has a CT scan on their abdomen using an adult sett...Monday, 11-Dec-2006 / [ Details... ]
A new study by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and elsewhere suggests that only one in five inner-city children with chronic asthma gets enough medicine to control dangerous flare-ups of the disease.The findings, reported in December's Pediatrics, are disturbing, the researchers say, because preventive therapy failure leads ...Monday, 4-Dec-2006 / [ Details... ]
Elementary-school-aged children commonly experience sleep problems, but little research has addressed the reasons behind this phenomenon. A new study finds that children of this age say they have sleep difficulties much more often than their parents report such problems. The findings, published in the November/December 2006 issue of the journal Child Development, are based on questionnaires completed by 300 pairs of 8-year-old twins ...Tuesday, 14-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
Looking for a simple way to increase your child's physical activity level? Try turning off the television, says University of Toronto research."Because television is so commonplace in our society, we don't realize how much of an impact it has on youth," says co-author Professor Ken Allison of the department of public health sciences and principal investigator in the physical activity research program. "We need to be reminded that it is crucial t...Monday, 13-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
A new study by Canadian researchers says that clogged arteries show up in children, and fatty diets and a lack of exercise are setting children up for heart problems later on in life.Dr. Sanaz Piran, an internal medicine resident at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and her colleagues reviewed data on 3,630 children, ages 5 to 18, who took part in 26 studies in Australia, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and the United States....Monday, 13-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
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