Nearly half of all American children will reside in a household receiving food stamps at some point between the ages of 1 and 20, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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Penicillin and several other antibacterial medications commonly taken by pregnant women do not appear to be associated with many birth defects, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, other antibiotics, such as sulfonamides and nitrofurantoins, may be associated with several severe [...] Read more »

Enforcement of an Illinois law requiring physicians to notify the parents of minors seeking abortion procedures will be delayed at least through Wednesday, the

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Nearly half of American children – including 90 percent of black children and 90 percent of children who spend their childhoods in single-parent households – will eat meals paid for by food stamps at some point during childhood, reports a Cornell researcher. Nearly one-quarter of U.S. children will live in homes that [...] Read more »

Decreased physical activity may have little to do with the recent spike in obesity rates among U.S. adolescents, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prompted by growing concern that the increase was due to decreased physical activity associated with increased TV viewing time and other sedentary behaviors, researchers examined [...] Read more »

USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: USNA) announced that a third-party clinical study led by Dr. David Greene at Australian Catholic University (ACU National) found that use of USANA’s Active Calcium™ Chewable supplement improves bone health in young girls. The double-blind, placebo-controlled study involved 20 pairs of identical twin girls, ages 9-12 years old, [...] Read more »

USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: USNA) announced that a third-party clinical study led by Dr. David Greene at Australian Catholic University (ACU National) found that use of USANA’s Active Calcium™ Chewable supplement improves bone health in young girls. The double-blind, placebo-controlled study involved 20 pairs of identical twin girls, ages 9-12 years old, [...] Read more »

Brain tumors in childhood cast a long shadow on survivors. The first study of the lasting impact of these tumors — the most common solid malignancies in childhood — shows that survivors have ongoing cognitive problems. They also have lower levels of education, employment and income than their siblings and survivors of other types of [...] Read more »

Epiglottitis is a life-threatening condition. It occurs when the epiglottis, which is a small flap of tissue that covers the windpipe (the trachea), swells and blocks the flow of air into the lungs. It should be regarded as a medical emergency. Left untreated, the symptoms of respiratory failure can quickly worsen, sometimes in the space [...] Read more »

“An estimated 17,000 children in the United States might have died unnecessarily over nearly two decades because they didn’t have health insurance, according to a report from researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore,” reports U.S. News and World Report. “David C.

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