Kids & Teen Health
NC company wants to use art to encourage health
A new company in High Point is hoping to color the world with its art prints that encourage folks to eat smarter, think positively and exercise. Paradigm Nutrition Inc., formed in late 2011, offers "nutritional facts in a nonthreatening, easy-to-understand way," said Bill McKenzie, who owns the company with his ...
Officials: 35 babies exposed to TB in 2 hospitals
Health officials are warning parents that their babies were exposed to tuberculosis while in neonatal-intensive care units at hospitals in Sacramento and Fairfield. The Sacramento Bee (http://bit.ly/KJsKqT) reports health officials on Tuesday notified the parents of 20 infants who spent time at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento from March 14 ...
Tennessee's dental health among worst in nation
The dental health care for Tennesseans ranks among the worst in the nation, which has sent more patients to the emergency room and caused more adults to lose teeth to decay and disease. A Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey performed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
CDC: Half of overweight teens have heart risk
Half the nation's overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says. And an even larger proportion of obese adolescents have such a risk, according to the alarming new numbers. "What ...
2 Robertson County toddlers infected with E. coli
Two Robertson County toddlers have been hospitalized with E. coli. The infections come less than a month after several children in Lincoln County were sickened in an E. coli outbreak. The source of that infection was not identified. The Robertson County Health Department is investigating to find the source of ...
No happy ending: 1 family's struggle with autism
Would you wait for a drowning man to ask for help before you tried to save him? That's what Tony and Beth Miller want to know after feeling for years like they were sinking, weighed down by the responsibility of raising a child with severe autism. Like being underwater, life ...
Group sues Neb. over denial of Medicaid coverage
An advocacy group filed a lawsuit Friday against the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services over its denial of Medicaid coverage for children with autism and other developmental disabilities. According to the 37-page filing from Nebraska Appleseed, the state routinely denies coverage of medically necessary treatments that are allowed ...
French autistic kids mostly get psychotherapy
In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes. But in France, they are more often sent to a psychiatrist where they get talk therapy meant for people with psychological or emotional problems. Things are slowly changing, but not without resistance. ...
Unvaccinated kids booted from Pa. classrooms
Get stuck or get out. That's the message Pennsylvania school districts gave to students and their parents this year as they approached a deadline to comply with new state vaccination rules. The message — and the vaccines — seem to have penetrated. Spot checks of most of the 20 largest ...
Panel debates bioterrorism protection for children
The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in case of a bioterror attack be tested in children? "We can't just assume that what we have for adults works for children," Health and Human Services ...
Advertisement
Ads By Google
Advertisement
Links We Like
From Our News Partners
© 2012 Cox Media Group. By using this website,
you accept the terms of our Visitor Agreement and Privacy Policy, and understand your options regarding Ad Choices
.
