Immunization coverage rates and the performance of other clinical preventive services increased significantly when immunization assessments are coupled with monthly food voucher pick-ups by families participating in the WIC program, according to a CDC study.
A promising new drug shown to be effective in treating viral meningitis in children -- the first treatment of its kind -- was found by researchers at University of California, San Diego, Children's Hospital San Diego and elsewhere.
In addition to protecting those children who had antibodies present in the nose or blood, the children who received the vaccine were protected against a live H1N1 vaccine virus challenge compared to those who received placebo, according to a Vanderbilt University Medical Center study.
Some Blacks and Hispanics may face continued barriers to care, even if they obtain health insurance under the State Children's Health Insurance Program, according to a University of Rochester study.
In her latest research, a Stanford Business School's researcher who has studied the accuracy and bias of securities analysts, looks at what would happen if investors strictly followed analysts' advice, buying stocks they recommended and shorting issues they shunned.
1- Researchers find unexpected feature in zooplankton nervous system, 2- NSF program is pathway to success for young economists, 3- Superplasticity may work better in smaller packages.
Two types of brain cells are abnormal in the brains of people who suffered from clinical depression and most of whom committed suicide, a scientist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center has demonstrated for the first time.
The "digital revolution" has equipped New York City police officers with access to precinct-by-precinct information on crime.
When it comes to court decisions, elected judges are more likely to rule in favor of the people who voted them into office, says a Ball State University researcher.
Children who live through catastrophic events develop an advanced understanding of right and wrong, but they may not act morally because the trauma disrupts their view of the world, according to researchers from the UCLA School of Medicine.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are presenting three scientific lectures (hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, septic shock and Cole-Hughes syndrome) and several poster-session exhibits at the Pediatric Academic Societies' 1999 Annual Meeting May 1 through 4.
Cornell University biologists who study dwindling populations of a rare ground squirrel in Idaho have found another reason to let "natural" fires burn: Without lightning-sparked fires every 10 to 12 years, non-native plants and pine trees are isolating squirrels into shrinking groups with inadequate food and keeping them from breeding with nearby populations.
The most effective methods for rapid toilet training progress resulted from moving a child out of diapers and providing intangible motivators and tangible rewards, Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee researchers reported at the Pediatric Academic Societies'1999 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Repeated child-targeted dietary counseling during the first five years of life diminishes the age-associated increase in serum cholesterol concentration and is compatible with normal neurological development, according to a report on The STRIP Project in Turku, Finland.
Providing price information for tests significantly reduced charges for tests ordered on pediatric emergency department patients with acute illnesses not requiring admission, according to research at the Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago.
Short intervals between pregnancies have been linked to increased risks of infant mortality due to intentional and unintentional injuries and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), according to research at the University of Chicago Children's Hospital.
African American and Latino students are at higher risk of initiating substance abuse than their Caucasian peers, according to a preliminary survey of high school students by researchers from UC Davis Medical Center.
E-mail communication between school children and medical students provides important learning opportunities for student doctors and potential health benefits for isolated, medically underserved pediatric populations, Dartmouth researchers have found.
Adolescents who use the emergency room as their main source of health care are twice as likely to have a history of sexual and physical abuse and two and a half times more likely to suffer from depression, a University of Rochester study suggests.
The percentage of fifth-grade students who liked being physically active increased after participating in Fitness Fever, a school-based activity and nutrition program, according to a Minnesota Department of Health study. Also, 83 percent of students said that parents provided the most motivation to be active.
Concerns about food insecurity and hunger in low-income legal immigrants may be more far-reaching than previously suspected, according to an investigation by Boston Medical Center researchers.
Latina women with short interpregnancy intervals -- 18 months or less between the delivery of one infant and the following conception -- are at greater risk of premature birth than white women, a University of California San Francisco team showed.
Parents who supervise their adolescents in "a warm but demanding" way can reduce their children's risk of becoming sexually active or getting involved with alcohol and drugs, according to a study at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
The majority of pediatricians nationwide are following a polio immunization program of injected vaccine followed by oral vaccine.
Significant growth abnormalities were found in refugee children resettling in the United States by Massachusetts Department of Public Health study. The study recommends that young refugees be screened immediately after arrival to ensure early diagnosis and treatment.
Resuscitation training through videoconferencing is an effective and cost-effective way of achieving skill maintenance, according to Children's Hospital in Winnipeg researchers.
Some health care providers do not report suspected child abuse because they do not feel Child Protective Services (CPS)will be beneficial or because they have had dissatisfactory experiences with CPS in the past.
Scientists at the University of California San Francisco have discovered a transcription factor that regulates part of the cycle that makes new copies of the cells in the human body.
Latino parents' beliefs about fever in children can affect how they use health care services, according to a Boston Medical Center and Children's Hospital study.
Targeted screening of children, especially those ages 11 to 16 who are at high risk for tuberculosis, reaps dramatic cost savings and is more efficient in preventing TB than widespread screening, according to a Montefiore Medical Center (NY) study.
Interpreter errors in pediatric clinic visits are fairly common and may have significant clinical consequences, according to a Boston Medical Center study.
Welfare beneficiaries caring for chronically ill children may not be fully aware of the benefits available to them under the recent welfare reform act, according to a Boston Medical Center study.
Researchers from the University at Buffalo, seeking to determine when the bone loss that results in osteoporosis in 19 percent of diabetic women begins, have found that mean bone density starts to decline sometime after the teen years.
Plate tectonics on Mars? Scientists have discovered magnetic stripes on the surface of Mars similar to fields in the sea floors of Earth. These surprising magnetic features may be a result of ancient crustal spreading. The discovery is likely to revolutionize current thinking of the red planet's evolution.
New research at Ohio State shows that boys circumcised in a doctor's office fare just as well after the procedure as those who were circumcised in a hospital operating room. Circumcisions done in the doctor's office were also much less expensive.
Boys fear snakes, monsters and scary theme park rides more often than girls do, while girls fear thunder storms and the dark more than boys, according to a new Ohio State study.
Astronomers at Ohio State compiling a catalog of spiral galaxies have discovered that collisions between such galaxies, as well as near-collisions, are more common than had been thought.
A common ingredient of peat and soil may rob plants of the nutrients they need to grow, according to research at Ohio State University.
A majority of family physicians and pediatricians are treating children with Prozac-type drugs for mild to moderate mental illness, despite a lack of scientific evidence, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study.
University of Iowa researchers examined the increasing problem many physicians face: how to respond to unsolicited e-mail messages from people they've never met, who are asking them for help?
A team of medical informatics and child life specialists at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center has met the challenge of providing peer support to seriously ill teenagers with an Internet service, Hopkins Teen Central.
A St. Lawrence University professor gives some recent novels high marks for accurately portraying Native Americans' experiences in college. Unfortunately, the realism of the books makes it clear that college is a negative experience for most Native Americans.
The cold, barren crust of Mars conceals ancient remnants of its fiery youth 4 billion years ago, when an "active dynamo" in the red planet's interior hummed with magnetism, much like Earth, researchers report April 30 in Science. Like faded tattoos on an aging space sailor, magnetic stripes now adorn the Martian crust, perhaps where sea floors spread apart.
The Professor of Newspaper Strategy and Management and director of UGA's Cox Institute for Newspaper Management Studies, a former foreign correspondent and vice president of the Associated Press, responded to news coverage of NATO's current bombing campaign in the Balkans.
Researchers at UCSD School of Medicine have found that the drug flovoxamine improves symptoms of social phobia and improves paients' social, work and family life. Results of the study, which was carried out at UCSD and 3 other centers, are published in the May Issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
The value of behavioral healthcare benefits continued a decade-long decline between 1997 and 1998, according to a new analysis. Psychiatric care also continues to be subject to greater limits than general health care.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins report that profoundly deaf children receiving a cochlear implant are more apt to be fully mainstreamed in school and use fewer school support services than similarly deaf children without an implant.
A study by an assistant professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, shows when consensus decision-making will work and when not to use it.
To speed up the recovery process of surgery patients and, therefore, decrease staffing costs, many hospitals have embraced fast-tracking -- keeping patients in a lighter anesthetized state so they regain consciousness sooner. However, a University of Iowa researcher has found the new strategy's may or may not save an institution money.
U-M psychologist says working mothers are more likely to use an authoritative approach that relies on reason rather than assertions of parental power and encourages both girls and boys to be independent.
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