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  • Fertility drug combo promising in older women

    Reuters – Fri Jul 3, 1:27 pm ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The combination of two drugs -- Femara (letrozole) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) -- could be of benefit in infertile women of advanced reproductive age undergoing intrauterine insemination, results of a study indicate.

  • Botched circumcisions leave 31 dead in S.Africa

    AFP – Fri Jul 3, 11:52 am ET

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on Friday.

  • U.S. parents think twice about sending kids to camp

    Reuters – Fri Jul 3, 10:47 am ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas.

  • Bedwetting, being overweight linked to sleep apnea

    Reuters – Fri Jul 3, 10:44 am ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who are overweight and wet the bed at night may have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), researchers report.

  • Uganda to outlaw female circumcision

    AFP – Fri Jul 3, 7:45 am ET

    KAMPALA (AFP) - Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country's eastern region, the president said in a statement Friday.

  • C-Section Stress Could Alter Baby's Immune Cells

    HealthDay – Thu Jul 2, 11:48 pm ET

    THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Babies delivered by cesarean section experience changes to the DNA of white blood cells, which might explain why they're at increased risk for immunological diseases such as diabetes and asthma later in life, Swedish researchers say.

  • Kids With Type 1 Diabetes Often Overweight

    HealthDay – Thu Jul 2, 11:48 pm ET

    THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Children with type 1 diabetes are more likely to be overweight than those without the disease, increasing their risk of serious health complications, researchers say.

  • Father's depression may affect infant's colic

    Reuters – Thu Jul 2, 4:38 pm ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Excessive crying in infants, otherwise known as colic, has been linked to symptoms of depression in the mother. Now a study conducted in the Netherlands links infant colic to depression in the father as well.

  • Australia urges calm after child flu death

    AFP – Thu Jul 2, 4:51 am ET

    MELBOURNE (AFP) - Australian authorities told parents not to panic Thursday after the country announced its first child death linked to swine flu.

  • Antibiotics May Boost Risk for Recurrent Ear Infection

    HealthDay – Wed Jul 1, 11:49 pm ET

    WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Repeated use of antibiotics to treat acute ear infections in young children increases the risk of recurrent ear infections by 20 percent, according to researchers in the Netherlands who called for more prudent use of antibiotics in young children.

  • TV Ads Trigger Mindless Eating

    HealthDay – Wed Jul 1, 11:49 pm ET

    WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Watching food ads on TV leads to a boost in snacking among children and adults, increasing the risk of weight gain, U.S. researchers say.

  • Maternal diet affects infant's long-term bone health

    Reuters – Wed Jul 1, 4:32 pm ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who maintain a healthy, well-balanced diet during pregnancy have children with bigger and stronger bones than women with poorer quality diets, according to the results of a study presented Tuesday at the National Osteoporosis Society Conference in Manchester, UK.

  • Sad Dads May Lead to Crying Infants

    HealthDay – Tue Jun 30, 11:48 pm ET

    TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Don't automatically blame mom: A crying, colicky baby can be just as much the result of dad's state of mind, Dutch researchers report.

  • Teens' idea of death risk linked with behavior

    Reuters – Tue Jun 30, 5:37 pm ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A sizable minority of adolescents believe they are likely to die at a young age, and this perception is a powerful predictor of involvement in high risk behaviors and poor health outcomes, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics.

  • Health Tip: When Your Child Needs Glasses

    HealthDay – Mon Jun 29, 11:49 pm ET

    (HealthDay News) -- Some children may resist wearing eyeglasses, despite the resulting improvement in vision, school work and even extracurricular sports.

  • Talk With Kids, Not At Them

    HealthDay – Mon Jun 29, 11:49 pm ET

    MONDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) -- If you want to help children develop language and speech skills, UCLA researchers say, listening to what they have to say is just as important as talking to them.

  • Harder for heavy moms to see child's weight status

    Reuters – Mon Jun 29, 6:16 pm ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The ability of a mother to identify a weight problem in her child appears to be dependent on her own weight, with overweight mothers tending to underestimate her child's weight. On the other hand, a mother's ability to correctly determine the weight status of a child who is unrelated to her appears to depend on her socioeconomic level, new research in Pediatrics shows.

  • Endurance cyclists 'risk infertility': scientists

    AFP – Mon Jun 29, 9:57 am ET

    PARIS (AFP) - Sportsmen who carry out high levels of cycle training could be damaging their chance of fatherhood, researchers reported on Monday.

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