A CDC report shows current cigarette smoking by high school students is about 17%.
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Only one in five orchidopexies for cryptorchidism is performed in boys one year old or younger, according to a new analysis of national hospital data.
Reuters Health Information

The 2 agencies recommend other precautions for fingerstick devices, glucometers, and insulin pens to curb the spread of bloodborne pathogens such as hepatitis B.
Medscape Medical News

This case-study of pediatric hypertension could open your eyes to connections between lifestyle and blood pressure.
Journal of Pediatric Health Care

In some young children, the rotavirus vaccine is not recommended. Read this new study to learn about the issues.
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report

Preliminary testing suggests it may serve as a potential risk-stratifying tool.
Medscape Medical News

The medical team organized and sponsored by Incheon City and Gacheon Gil Foundation visited the Viet-Czech Friendship Hospital in Haiphong, Vietnam, a sister city of Incheon, on August 24 (Tue) as part of the "2010 Asian District Sister City Support Project", which sought to pre-treat 50 children with congenital heart disease...

"Even prior to the onset of the economic recession in 2008, nearly one in four American parents with health insurance reported that their coverage was so inadequate they were unable to access the medical care their children needed," HealthDay/Bloomberg Businessweek reports...

The Assembly today passed legislation designed to ensure that all children have access to life-saving immunizations and sent it to the governor. Assembly Bill 2093, authored by Assemblymember Manuel Perez, D-Coachella and co-sponsored by the California Medical Association, received bipartisan support in both the Assembly and the Senate, where it passed on Tuesday...

The mold that spread like a rash across post-Katrina New Orleans did more than destroy homes - it made children with asthma sick. On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, experts point to increased sensitivities to environmental asthma triggers as a risk for more severe asthma symptoms and attacks in hundreds of New Orleans children. Today the Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc...

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of the sanofi-aventis Group (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY), announced that the U.S...

Children with sickle cell disease are especially hard-hit by the H1N1 flu strain, causing more life-threatening complications than the seasonal flu, according to a study from Johns Hopkins Children's Center...

Meconium, the dark and tarry stools passed by a baby during the first few days after birth, can be used to determine how much the mother smoked, or if she was exposed to tobacco smoke during pregnancy...

Child abuse declined nationally in 2008 compared to 2007, according to a new report by the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. Sexual abuse declined 6 percent, physical abuse 3 percent and neglect 2 percent. The report also found that child maltreatment fatalities stayed stable from 2007 to 2008...

With children going back to school, parents are concerned that their youngsters are staying fit and eating right, especially those who dine in a school cafeteria. New research funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture finds that children who eat school lunches that are part of the federal government's National School Lunch Program are more likely to become overweight...

Two high-fat diets the classic ketogenic and a modified version of the Atkins can reduce and, in some cases, completely eliminate seizures in children with a common seizure disorder known as absence epilepsy, say researchers from Johns Hopkins Children's Center...

It didn't take long for an Australian program of infant rotavirus vaccination to cut hospitalizations for rotavirus diarrhea by more than half in that age group, a new study shows.
Reuters Health Information

In a region where malaria is endemic, withholding antimalarials in febrile children with a negative rapid diagnostic test for malaria (RDTm) doesn't increase their risk of complications or death, a prospective study shows.
Reuters Health Information

(MedPage Today) -- The declines in tobacco use among young people seen earlier in the decade appear to have leveled off in the last three years, suggesting that greater preventive efforts are needed, CDC researchers report.

Eisai has announced positive phase 3 findings with a novel drug for the treatment of partial seizures.
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