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Hepatitis A Vaccine
A team of researchers from upstate New York reported that a single dose of a formalin inactivated hepatitis A vaccine (Vaqta, Merck Sharp & Dohme) is well tolerated and highly protective against the disease. Investigators from the Kiryas Joel Institute of Medicine studied 1,037 uninfected children aged 2 to 16 in a Hasidic community that... »
National Mental Health Association
Physicians and parents can use a few simple rules to judge whether a child’s fears are normal participants in a meeting of the National Mental Health Association in Charleston, S.C., learned. Normal phobias, such as the fear of strangers or fear on the first day of school, will fade away after a few days or... »
Hepatitis B Infection
University of Michigan pediatricians cautioned that more adopted children from Romania may be infected with hepatitis B than is indicated on their medical records. Children from Southeast Asia and parts of Africa also have a high rate of undetected hepatitis B infection. The doctors advised in The Journal of the American Medical Association that... »
Baby Cribs
Infants less than a year old who sleep in adult beds or in unsafe baby cribs are at risk of accidental death, revealed a study in the American Journal of Diseases of Children. Small changes in a baby’s sleeping environment could prevent these deaths, advised the researcher from the Kentucky Medical Examiner’s Program in... »
Diabetes Mellitus
A Finnish-Canadian study provided evidence supporting the long-held suspicion that a protein in cow’s milk may trigger the onset of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus in genetically susceptible individuals. Of 142 children with recently diagnosed IDDM, all had highly elevated serum concentrations of anti bodies against bovine serum albumin, the collaborators reported in The New... »