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Risk Of Kidney Disease

Jan
21

Date: January 21st, 2013

Teenagers have a tendency of eating anything sweet and yummy they can get their hands on, which in return could play a part in excess weight. This is only part of the story, according to a recent study, childhood obesity is considered a pandemic that should be dealt with under any circumstances before it’s too late. Obviously, when these children start attaining certain ages and hence crossing into adulthood, they start to realize that they need to cut the excess weight as a way of restoring their beauty and natural figures.

Probiotics On Mothers Could Curb Eczema

Jan
20

Date: January 20th, 2013

Asthma and allergies can all result from simple skin reaction like a rash mostly associated with eczema. According to the described research results, it was accounted that probiotics, normally known as good bacteria usually said to prevent various disease causing incidents from spreading to other part of the body, by balancing the entire bacteria population in the gut, may have a positive impact on the health of babies when immune cells are used to present those results. Generally, those cells normally cross the placenta before being passed out as milk allowing the baby to feed on them when breastfeeding.

OTC Eye Drops and Nose Sprays are Poisonous?

Jan
19

Date: January 19th, 2013

While it is obvious parents at home may not have realized the dangers involved in these products, the FDA warns that they are to store them away from the reach of children as they could lead to hospital case medical issues. Curious children are always trying to understand what they can achieve by using products that they regularly witness adults close to the using. According to the statistics report issued by the US consumer Product Safety Commission, CPSC from 1997 all the way to 2009, it has been evaluated that injuries caused by such eye drops were more than 4,500 children who were all said to be under the ages of five years.

Moderate Exercise Can Fight ADHD

Dec
29

Date: December 29th, 2012

Aerobic exercise is a routine that any person can undertake and according to Mathew B. Pontifex and the examination he and his colleagues carried out, when a single bout of moderate intensity aerobic exercise, where their objective measures included attention, academic performance and brain neurophysiology respectively, the exercise which involved 20 children all of which were ADHD positive and aged between the ages of eight and ten years. The results from the exercise marked a beginning of a new era of the victims as those with ADHD and took time to make aerobic exercise part of their daily routine, were able to portray positive results.

The research exercise

The results that from the research not only proved on the positive impact of a bout of moderate intense aerobic exercise to the described victims, but it was also concluded that the target patients had also a greater response on accuracy and stimulus. ADHD is a condition that not only affects alertness of children, but also a medical situation that if not treated in advance, could prove malignant.  There were two tested incidents of ADHD and the approaches of moderate aerobic exercises to provide comprehensive results. Two similar durations of seats and reading after the exercise and those who did not take part in the procedure of the exercise showed that those tested on the account of the exercise had a higher chance of maintaining fluency in their reading experience.

British Star Teaches CPR

Dec
27

Date: December 27th, 2012

If you have ever witnessed somebody having a cardiac arrest, then you’ve probably witnessed even more people gathered around such as person with no clue of what to do except ask if there is a doctor close by. What most people don’t seem to realize is that sometimes they can be just as effective as the doctor. There will not always be a medical professional close by when somebody has a cardiac arrest. In case only one person knows CPR then this could be the difference between life and death for the one who’s having the cardiac arrest. This one person could be you.

Creepy zombies teach CPR in halloween

Dec
25

Date: December 25th, 2012

CPR might just be one of the most underrated medical procedures. Knowledge of CPR may mean the difference between life and death, but most people don’t seem to realize this. In a country such as the United States alone, there are 383,000 cases of cardiac arrest that occur suddenly outside the hospital.

Brain development

Nov
08

Date: November 8th, 2012

Usually picking toys for kids is usually just about what’s fun. Toys are however how our children first start interacting with the world and there has been a long debate on just what impact toys can have on our children’s growth. The impact of such things as toys and books is further brought to the light by a new study that suggests that the cognitive stimulation that children receive in the early  has an impact on how the child’s brain will develop in the later years.

205 cases of menengitis documented in outbreak according to cdc

Nov
07

Date: November 7th, 2012

Nobody could ever have imagined that they would receive a life threatening condition from a vial of medication. The people who received vials of a steroid medication that had been prepared by the New England compounding center definitely didn’t expect this yet it is exactly what happened and with the death toll currently standing at 15 many people have been getting worried.

3 Hours of physical activity for kids under 6 suggested

Nov
06

Date: November 6th, 2012

You just can’t overstress the importance of exercise in the world that we now live in. With a very large percentage of the population already being classified as obese and more seeming to be headed in the same direction, exercise may just be the most important word in the dictionary right now. It’s also not just about obesity, heart disease, various cancers and many more diseases are being linked to lack of physical activity.

Study finds brain development dependent on childhood stimulation

Nov
05

Date: November 5th, 2012

The impact of environment on the growth of children has been a frequently discussed issue. A study which has been carried out over the course of two decades has now revealed that when a kid is surrounded by toys that are educational and books at an early, this will leave a fingerprint in the child’s brain well into their teens.