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| Dealing With Head Lice (HealthDay) | HealthDay - SUNDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Although there is a stigma associated with having head lice, infestations with these small insects are common and nothing to be ashamed of, according to Dr. Hannah Chow-Johnson, a pediatrician at Loyola University Health System. | February 5, 2012 |
| Day Care Worker Duct Tapes Toddler On Floor Mat - Newsoxy.com | A day care worker in Ludlow, Kentucky tapes a toddler to a floor mat because he would not sleep or take a nap. At the time of the incident the child was 18-months-old, but the mother of the child did not find out about what happened until a couple months ... | February 5, 2012 |
| Immunization deadline set for Feb. 15 - Statesman Journal | Students who don't have up-to-date immunization records will be excluded from schools and day-care centers starting Feb. 15. The county health department sends out notices to families who are affected with a list of shots their child must ... | February 4, 2012 |
| 2-month-old found not breathing at home day care in Howard dies - Green Bay Press-Gazette | The child, Alexander Schenzel ... Sara Buschman, spokesman for the state Department of Children & Families, said the state has no record of a day care license issued at the Brookview Drive address. A license would be required if Harris was ... | February 4, 2012 |
| Day-care provider reported to Lodi police - Record | Weston said day-care providers do not necessarily need a license to provide child care services. If Bernhoft is put in charge of children from a single family, she can care for them legally. A license is needed to oversee children from multiple ... | February 4, 2012 |
| Health Tip: Teach Your Toddler Good Behavior (HealthDay) | HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Toddler tantrums can challenge even the most patient parent, but being firm and consistent can help you discipline your toddler in an effective, loving way. | February 3, 2012 |
| Health Tip: Prepare for Breast-feeding (HealthDay) | HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Preparations for successful breast-feeding begin during pregnancy. | February 3, 2012 |
| Epidural Plus Fever in Mom May Raise Risks for Baby (HealthDay) | HealthDay - FRIDAY. Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- The babies of women who develop an epidural-related fever while in labor are at greater risk of having problems right at birth, including poor muscle tone, breathing difficulties, low Apgar scores and seizures, a new study suggests. | February 3, 2012 |
| Asthmatic Moms Who Breast-feed May Help Their Children's Lungs (HealthDay) | HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding is associated with improved lung function in school-age children, particularly those with asthmatic mothers, a new study says. | February 3, 2012 |
| Small setbacks delay child care center opening - Thesiuslaw News | Connor has worked with children throughout most of her career — in daycare, Head Start ... She said most parents have fundamental questions in mind when sorting out child care. Will my child be safe? Will my baby be picked up when she cries? | February 3, 2012 |
| Day Care Worker Duct Tapes Toddler On Floor Mat - Newsoxy.com | A day care worker in Ludlow, Kentucky tapes a toddler to a floor mat because he would not sleep or take a nap. At the time of the incident the child was 18-months-old, but the mother of the child did not find out about what happened until a couple months ... | February 5, 2012 |
| Immunization deadline set for Feb. 15 - Statesman Journal | Students who don't have up-to-date immunization records will be excluded from schools and day-care centers starting Feb. 15. The county health department sends out notices to families who are affected with a list of shots their child must ... | February 4, 2012 |
| 2-month-old found not breathing at home day care in Howard dies - Green Bay Press-Gazette | The child, Alexander Schenzel ... Sara Buschman, spokesman for the state Department of Children & Families, said the state has no record of a day care license issued at the Brookview Drive address. A license would be required if Harris was ... | February 4, 2012 |
| Day-care provider reported to Lodi police - Record | Weston said day-care providers do not necessarily need a license to provide child care services. If Bernhoft is put in charge of children from a single family, she can care for them legally. A license is needed to oversee children from multiple ... | February 4, 2012 |
| Small setbacks delay child care center opening - Thesiuslaw News | Connor has worked with children throughout most of her career — in daycare, Head Start ... She said most parents have fundamental questions in mind when sorting out child care. Will my child be safe? Will my baby be picked up when she cries? | February 3, 2012 |
| Lodi day care provider Dorothy Bernhoft gives up license - Lodi News-Sentinel | who was not fingerprinted or approved to work in a daycare facility. Bernhoft also was over capacity at her home, the complaint stated. She was approved to care for eight children in her home. However, nine infants and one child over the age of ... | February 3, 2012 |
| Astorino: Increase child-care fees 15%, Westchester lacks money - LoHud.com | Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino wants to raise fees for child care by roughly $120 a month and cap ... The Astorino administration is predicting that money for certain county day-care subsidies, notably Title XX and another program ... | February 3, 2012 |
| Dept Of Social Services Moves To Protect Day Care Subsidies - Westchester.com | It is also important to note that parents only pay for their first child in day care –additional children in the household are free to the family. Up until 2006, Westchester families in the program had been contributing at the 33 percent level. | February 2, 2012 |
| Dusk To Dawn 24-hour day care opens in Columbia - Columbia Missourian | She found Lucinda Jones. Nearly 20 years later, Miller, 37, and Jones, 52, are business partners who run a 24-hour day care in Columbia. Dusk To Dawn and days too Child Care Center, opened Jan. 24 at 1626 Towne Drive. It is an expansion of ... | February 1, 2012 |
| Day care lacks play time, study says - Orange County Register | If your child is in day care, it is pretty likely that he or she is not getting much active play time – and it's pretty likely that it's your fault, at least to a degree. According to a study in the journal Pediatrics, as reported by Reuters ... | February 1, 2012 |
| Dealing With Head Lice (HealthDay) | HealthDay - SUNDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Although there is a stigma associated with having head lice, infestations with these small insects are common and nothing to be ashamed of, according to Dr. Hannah Chow-Johnson, a pediatrician at Loyola University Health System. | February 5, 2012 |
| Health Tip: Teach Your Toddler Good Behavior (HealthDay) | HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Toddler tantrums can challenge even the most patient parent, but being firm and consistent can help you discipline your toddler in an effective, loving way. | February 3, 2012 |
| Health Tip: Prepare for Breast-feeding (HealthDay) | HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Preparations for successful breast-feeding begin during pregnancy. | February 3, 2012 |
| Epidural Plus Fever in Mom May Raise Risks for Baby (HealthDay) | HealthDay - FRIDAY. Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- The babies of women who develop an epidural-related fever while in labor are at greater risk of having problems right at birth, including poor muscle tone, breathing difficulties, low Apgar scores and seizures, a new study suggests. | February 3, 2012 |
| Asthmatic Moms Who Breast-feed May Help Their Children's Lungs (HealthDay) | HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding is associated with improved lung function in school-age children, particularly those with asthmatic mothers, a new study says. | February 3, 2012 |
| Traffic-related asthma costs two cities big money (Reuters) | Reuters - Traffic pollution may cost two California cities millions each year in managing children's asthma, a new study suggests. | February 3, 2012 |
| Denial no option in sexual abuse scandal: Vatican (Reuters) | Reuters - The Roman Catholic Church has sometimes been in denial over the sexual abuse of children by clergy but must now move forward to face up to the scandal, the Vatican's top official for the issue said on Friday. | February 3, 2012 |
| Study Finds Link Between Exposure to Anesthesia and ADHD in Children (ContributorNetwork) | ContributorNetwork - A new study released on Thursday by the Mayo Clinic has drawn a connection between the use of anesthesia in children under the age of three and an increased risk of developing ADHD. The study found that children who had to be put under anesthesia more than once as very young children had an "elevated risk" of developing the disorder. | February 3, 2012 |
| Childhood Obesity May Cause Future Heart Disease Epidemic (ContributorNetwork) | ContributorNetwork - "A coming epidemic" is how pediatric cardiologists are describing the impending problems from high rates of juvenile obesity, reports The Missourian. Here are details for parents about overweight kids, heart disease and other concomitant health issues. | February 3, 2012 |
| Pregnant Women Over 50 'Do Pretty Well' Study Finds (LiveScience.com) | LiveScience.com - The average age of women becoming mothers has risen in the United States, and in the last 20 years, a few women have even entered motherhood in their 60s. | February 3, 2012 |
| Schooling protects refugee children from disease | Refugee children have scant access to medical care and are particularly vulnerable to disease. Fresh research results show that just a few hours of schooling a week may have a pronounced positive impact on their health not only in childhood but later in life when they achieve adulthood. | February 3, 2012 |
| Breastfeeding tied to stronger lungs, less asthma | Kids who were breastfed as babies may have better lung function, and a lower risk of asthma, than those who were formula-fed, two new reports suggest. | February 3, 2012 |
| To make a social robot, key is satisfying the human mind | Understanding the human mind is the key to social robotics, and researchers describe what we can expect from this field in the future. | February 3, 2012 |
| Gene regulator in brain's executive hub tracked across lifespan | Scientists have tracked the activity, across the lifespan, of an environmentally responsive regulatory mechanism that turns genes on and off in the brain's executive hub. Genes implicated in schizophrenia and autism are among those in which regulatory activity peaks during an environmentally-sensitive critical period in development. The mechanism, called DNA methylation, abruptly switches from off to on within the human brain's prefrontal cortex during this pivotal transition from fetal to postnatal life. | February 2, 2012 |
| Young children exposed to anesthesia multiple times show elevated rates of ADHD | Researchers have found that multiple exposures to anesthesia at a young age are associated with higher rates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). | February 2, 2012 |
| Infections in childhood linked to high risk of ischemic stroke | Common infections in children pose a high risk of ischemic stroke, according to new research. In a review of 2.5 million children, the researchers identified 126 childhood ischemic stroke cases and then randomly selected 378 age-matched controls from the remaining children without stroke. They discovered that 29 percent of those who suffered a stroke had a medical encounter for infection in the two days preceding the stroke versus one percent of controls during the same dates. | February 1, 2012 |
| Scientists decode brain waves to eavesdrop on what we hear | Neuroscientists and surgeons have recorded electrical activity in the temporal lobe -- the seat of the auditory system -- to discover how the brain encodes sound. Their model allows them to predict what a person heard based solely on temporal lobe activity. If, as studies suggest, internal "imagined" conversations activate similar areas of the temporal lobe, it may be possible to hear the internal verbalizations of people who cannot talk because of paralysis or stroke. | January 31, 2012 |
| Scientists identify genetic mutations behind children's brain tumours | Montreal researchers have discovered two genetic mutations that are behind some of the deadliest brain tumours in children. | January 31, 2012 |
| Parents need to talk more to kids about drugs: Survey | Canadian parents should talk more to their kids about the dangers of illicit and non-prescription drugs, according to a new national survey by the Partnership for a Drug Free Canada. | January 30, 2012 |
| Mom's love good for child's brain | School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists, is the first to show that changes in this critical region of children’s brain anatomy are linked to a mother’s nurturing. | January 30, 2012 |
| DNA test that identifies Down syndrome in pregnancy can also detect trisomy 18 and trisomy 13 | A recent study shows that a new DNA test that identifies Down syndrome in pregnancy can also detect trisomies 18 and 13. | February 2, 2012 |
| Douglas: Facebook’s attack on breastfeeding hurts women | There’s a reason Vancouver breastfeeding activist and mother of three Emma Kwasnica has chosen to go head-to-head with Facebook over its policy regarding images of breastfeeding mothers. | February 1, 2012 |
| Baby sign language opens up a world of communication | Baby sign language helps infants and toddlers communicate their needs and acquire verbal skills sooner. Here are some tips from Sara Bingham, who founded Wee Hands 10 years ago. | January 31, 2012 |
| Risks of pregnancy via egg donation similar for women over age 50 as for younger women | Although women over age 50 who become pregnant via egg donation are at an elevated risk for developing obstetrical complications, their complication rates are similar to those of younger recipients, according to a new study. This is contrary to epidemiological data suggesting that these women are at greater risk of certain complications of pregnancy, including hypertension, gestational diabetes, premature birth, and placenta abnormalities. | January 31, 2012 |
| Overweight mothers who smoke while pregnant can damage baby's heart, study finds | Mothers-to-be who are both overweight and smoke during their pregnancy risk damaging their baby's developing heart, according to new research. | January 30, 2012 |
| Markham Stouffville Hospital cuts number of Caesarean births to 25 per cent | Maternal care unit in Markham Stouffville shows small changes can lead to savings | January 29, 2012 |
| Baby name: Decision coloured by baby’s hair | Cornwall couple had names for a blonde, brunette and redhead – and even if their baby was born bald. | January 26, 2012 |
| Deb Matthews backs down on reducing C-sections to save money | Health Minister Deb Matthews now says there are no plans to limit OHIP coverage of procedures such as planned caesarean sections. | January 26, 2012 |
| Antiretroviral drugs guard against HIV but may lead to birth defects | HIV-positive mothers have been able to guard against transmitting the disease to their babies by taking antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy. Although the drugs prevent children from being born with HIV, they could cause birth defects, such as cleft lip and palate. A new study explores any links between antiretroviral prophylaxis and cleft lip and palate. | January 26, 2012 |
| Cuts to OHIP services could include some planned C-section births | Taxpayers will soon have to pay for, or do without, some health services now covered by OHIP. | January 25, 2012 |
| Overarching Floor Lamp | An electrical short-circuit can occur in the lamp's wiring, posing a shock hazard to consumers. | February 3, 2012 |
| "Honey Bunny" Infant Terry Bib with Pocket | Health Canada's sampling and evaluation program has revealed that the front pocket and back lining of the bib contains phthalates, specifically DEHP (Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate) and DBP (Dibutylphtalate), which exceed the allowable limit. | February 2, 2012 |
| UPPAbaby Peg Perego Infant Car Seat Adapter | The plastic pins on the adapter, which the infant car seat latches onto can break. This pin breaking can cause the infant car seat to disengage from the stroller frame causing a fall hazard for the occupant of the car seat. | February 1, 2012 |
| HP Fax 1040 and HP Fax 1050 | The fax machine can overheat due to an internal electrical component failure, posing fire and burn hazard. | February 1, 2012 |
| Olsen Direct Vent Oil Furnaces | The pressure switch that senses a blocked flue may not function properly. | January 27, 2012 |
| Tumblekins Wooden vehicles and playsets | Small parts can detach posing a choking hazard to young children. If small parts detach, sharp points can be exposed posing a laceration hazard. | January 26, 2012 |
| Nitto Bicycle Handlebar | The handlebars can break causing loss of control and resulting in a crash. | January 26, 2012 |
| Time 4 Crafts Kid's Apron | Health Canada's sampling and evaluation program has revealed that the kid's apron contains a phthalate, specifically DEHP (Di-Ethylhexyl Phthalate), which exceeds the allowable limit. | January 26, 2012 |
| The Cadbury Complete Egg Hunting Kit (including plush bunny toy) | The plastic eyes and whiskers can detach from the bunny, which can pose a choking hazard to young children. | January 24, 2012 |
| Various "Impulse! & Co." and "Party Princess" Children Jewellery (Expansion of December 2011 Recall) | The recalled pieces of jewellery may contain lead in excess of the allowable limits. In addition, these pieces of jewellery may contain cadmium in excess of guidance levels proposed recently by Health Canada. | January 24, 2012 |