Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Although children are not buying sugary drinks at school because of state bans, their overall consumption of such beverages does not seem to have dropped, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago reported in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine after carrying out a study involving nearly seven thousand ...
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Infants with high levels of hemoglobin who were given iron fortified infant formula were found to have poorer long-term developmental outcomes ten years later, researchers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor reported in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The researchers explained as background information: "The high prevalence of ...
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
A study published today in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine revealed that despite children watching fewer advertisements from food and beverage companies, most television ads viewed promote fast-food restaurants or unhealthy food high in saturated fat, sugar or sodium. It has been discovered that there has been ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Hospitalized children in the United States are more frequently becoming infected with the bacteria Clostridium difficile, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May print issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. C difficile can colonize the gastrointestinal tract ...
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
A child who goes to a day care center will have more infections before 2½ years of age and fewer during their elementary/primary school period, Canadian researchers wrote in an article published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Most typical illnesses include ear and respiratory infections. The authors wrote: ...
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