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Children diseases and available immunization
Making sure your child gets all the recommended vaccines is one of the ways to ensure your child’s good health. Vaccines are also called immunizations.
Every year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other expert panels release new recommendations for childhood immunization schedules. The schedules change based on developments in vaccine research, disease [...]
Research: Pregnant mothers’ diet linked to child obesity
WELLINGTON: An expectant mother’s diet during pregnancy can alter her baby’s DNA in the womb, increasing its risk of obesity, heart disease and diabetes in later life, an international study has found.
Researchers said the study provided the first scientific evidence linking pregnant women’s diet to childhood obesity, with major implications for public health.
“This a a [...]
Why play is essential in your child’s first three years
Play is essential in the first three years of a child’s life. Learning through play in those early years can stimulate the child’s brain development.
Carrie Lupoli, founder of learning specialists Live and Learn Asia (www.liveandlearnasia.com/), said that there is a lot of new research about the power of play and how it relates to brain [...]
Research: Stillbirth – A silent tragedy haunts the world’s poor
More than 2.6 million pregnancies a year end in stillbirth, a tragedy which mostly hits women in poor countries and accounts for more deaths than AIDS and malaria combined, researchers said on Wednesday.
A series of studies published in the journal Lancet by researchers from the World Health Organization and some 50 organizations in 18 countries [...]
Research: First baby over age 45 can lead to complications
A study of older new mothers in Israel finds that 8 in 10 experienced health problems during their pregnancies, and nearly half of their babies were smaller than average.
First-time births over age 45 have more than tripled over the last decade in Israel. Though they still represent a small fraction of all births, the researchers [...]
Research: Prenatal pesticide exposure linked with lower IQ
Babies exposed to pesticides before birth may have significantly lower intelligence scores by age 7 than children who were not exposed, three separate studies published on Thursday said.
Results from the studies — two in New York and one in an agricultural community in California — suggest prenatal exposure to pesticides can have a lasting [...]
