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• Therapy Yields Promise for Fatal Neurological Condition

  May 13 (HealthDay News) -- A new gene therapy that involves injecting a harmless virus ...

• Lawsuit Alleging Mercury-Autism Link to Begin

  May 12 (HealthDay News) -- A preservative containing mercury and once widely used in childhood ...

• Training Student Leaders Cuts Peers' Smoking Rates

  May 9 (HealthDay News) -- Training influential students to spread anti-smoking messages in their everyday ...

• Some Weight-Loss Drugs Might Disrupt Brain Growth in Kids

  May 7 (HealthDay News) -- A new class of weight-loss drugs that suppresses appetite by ...

• Corticosteroids of Little Use Against Childhood Meningitis

  May 6 (HealthDay News) -- Corticosteroids are increasingly used to help treat children with bacterial ...

• Ethnicity Plays Role in Parents' Treatment of Childhood Fever

  May 5 (HealthDay News) -- Most parents have some misconceptions about their children's fever and ...

• Heart Hormone Elevated in Children Who Wet BedHeart Hormone Elevated in Children Who Wet Bed

  May 5 (HealthDay News) -- Children who wet their beds frequently have elevated levels of ...

• Adopted Children at Slightly Higher Mental Health Risk

  May 5 (HealthDay News) -- A small proportion of adopted American teens appear to be ...

• Federal Health Plan for Children Still Leaves Needs Unmet

  May 5 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who had private health insurance before enrolling in a ...

• Breast-Feeding May Boost IQ

  May 5 (HealthDay News) -- Children who were breast-fed exclusively for the first three months ...

• Autistic Kids More Likely to Have Parents with Mental Illness

  May 5 (HealthDay News) -- Parents of children with autism have double the odds of ...

• One-Third of Parents Lack Facts About Child Development

  May 4 (HealthDay News) -- One-third of parents of babies have a surprisingly low knowledge ...

• Low-Income Moms Rarely Speak to Infants During TV/Video Time

  May 5 (HealthDay News) -- When infants in low-income families are watching television or videos, ...

• 10% of U.S. Kids Using Cough Medicine Every Week

  May 3 (HealthDay News) -- Approximately one in 10 U.S. children uses one or more ...

• Special Diet Can Ease Epileptic Seizures in Kids

  May 2 (HealthDay News) -- The "ketogenic" diet, which features high levels of fat, low ...

• Measles Outbreak Rises to 64 Cases, Most Since 2001

  May 1 (HealthDay News) -- There were 64 confirmed cases of measles in the United ...

• Delusions Common in Pediatric ICU

  May 1 (HealthDay News) -- About one-third of children in pediatric intensive care units experience ...

• Incubators Affect Newborns' Heart Rates

  April 30 (HealthDay News) -- Results of a small study show that the electromagnetic field ...

• Tree-Lined Streets Associated with Lower Childhood Asthma Rates

  April 30 (HealthDay News) -- Young children who live in neighborhoods with lots of trees ...