Category: Pediatrics / Children's Health

Gross human rights violations, including forced displacement, forced labor, attacks by soldiers on civilians, injury from landmines and destruction or theft of food supplies, have been widespread in eastern Burma (also known as Myanmar), with over half of households in displaced areas reporting incidents in the 12 months prior to a 2004 survey.

Parents who have e-mail access to their child’s physician report improved communication and care. In a new study, “Patient-Physician E-mail: An Opportunity to Transform Pediatric Health Care Delivery,” 121 families in a pediatric rheumatology practice used a physician e-mail service over a two-year period. During that time, data was recorded on each message, including its level of urgency, subject, volume, time received, and physician time spent responding to the e-mail.

Parents who have e-mail access to their child’s physician report improved communication and care. In a new study, “Patient-Physician E-mail: An Opportunity to Transform Pediatric Health Care Delivery,” 121 families in a pediatric rheumatology practice used a physician e-mail service over a two-year period. During that time, data was recorded on each message, including its level of urgency, subject, volume, time received, and physician time spent responding to the e-mail.

Consistent, heavy television viewing (more than two hours a day) throughout early childhood can cause behavior, sleep and attention problems. In the new study, “Children’s Television Exposure and Behavioral and Social Outcomes at 5.5 Years: Does Timing of Exposure Matter?” researchers assessed data from the Healthy Steps for Young Children national evaluation effort pertaining to the effects of early, concurrent and sustained television exposure at age 2.5 years, and again at age 5.5 years.

The favorable safety profile of the investigational enhanced potency anti-respiratory synctial virus (RSV) monoclonal antibody (MAb) motavizumab, when given for a second consecutive season in high-risk children, is consistent with that seen during the first season, new data indicate.

A Valparaiso University nursing professor will collaborate with East Chicago-based HealthVisions Midwest in evaluating a new initiative to reduce the number of infants in Lake County’s Hispanic community who die or are born suffering from disease.

At this year’s Little League World Series, new rules for the first time forced players to limit the number of times pitchers could throw the ball, and coaches had to strategize how pitchers were used more carefully.Under the old system, a pitcher age 12 and under could throw up to six innings per week and six innings per game.

The Yale School of Public Health has received a $15 million grant to take part in a national study that will follow 100,000 children from before birth to age 21 to understand factors that contribute to their health and development. The study, believed to be the largest of its kind ever undertaken, is a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A 1998 settlement designed to limit the marketing of smokeless tobacco to youth hasn’t been effective, according to a new University of Georgia study published in the early online edition of the American Journal of Public Health.”Exposure rates are significant and have been very stable over the past 10 years,” said study co-author Dean Krugman, professor in the UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

The short term addition of ‘Singulair’® (montelukast) to usual asthma therapy for six weeks after school return could substantially reduce asthma morbidity and unscheduled physician visits during this predictably high-risk period1.