UroToday.com – A study by Dr. Valerie L. Ward et al. compared radiation exposure and effective dose in children who underwent voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) performed with grid-controlled variable-rate pulsed fluoroscopy (GCPFL) to radiation exposure and effective dose in children who underwent VCUG performed with continuous fluoroscopy (CFL). These effective doses were compared with those estimated [...] Read more »

The California Medical Association on Tuesday endorsed federal legislation extending health care coverage for millions of poor and near-poor children. Passage of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which funds the Healthy Families program in California, is essential to ensure that youngsters get the medical attention they deserve, regardless of their families’ [...] Read more »

Breakthrough’s comment on the news a baby has been born free of a breast cancer gene A woman has given birth to the first British child genetically designed to be free of the breast cancer gene, BRCA1. A team of doctors screened her embryos and selected those free from the gene. [...] Read more »

Adelaide researchers have made a world breakthrough in treating premature babies at risk of developmental disorders. A six-year study led by Dr Maria Makrides from the Women’s and Children’s Health Research Institute and Professor Bob Gibson from the University of Adelaide has demonstrated that high doses of fatty acids administered to pre-term infants [...] Read more »

The work of Forsyth scientist Peter Jezewski, DDS, Ph.D., has revealed that duplication and diversification of protein regions (‘modules’) within ancient master control genes is key to the understanding of certain birth disorders. Tracing the history of these changes within the proteins coded by the Msx gene family over the past 600 million years has [...] Read more »

A leading child expert is warning parents to limit the amount of television children watch before the age of two, after an extensive review published in the January issue of Acta Paediatrica showed that it can do more harm than good to their ongoing development. Read The Full Article…Wide-Ranging International Review Warns Letting Infants Watch [...] Read more »

This afternoon, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to reauthorize and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond issued the following statement: “We believe every American should have quality, affordable health care, and [...] Read more »

A standard pediatric vaccine used to prevent several common types of life-threatening infections also effectively reduced the rates of another disease, pneumococcal meningitis, in children and adults, according to a multi-center study led by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The study, published in the Jan. Read The Full Article…Pediatric Vaccine Prevents Pneumococcal Meningitis [...] Read more »

Rats whose mothers were fed alcohol during pregnancy are more attracted to the smell of liquor during puberty. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions have shown that rats exposed during gestation find the smell of alcohol on another rat’s breath during adolescence more attractive than animals with no prior [...] Read more »

The Outdoor Foundation announced the release of the 2008 Outdoor Recreation Participation Report, the only detailed study of its kind tracking American participation trends in outdoor recreation. The findings highlighted in the report are areas of both opportunity and concern: while overall participation in outdoor recreation among Americans is increasing, the connection to nature among [...] Read more »