Children's Health

MOM Enterprises Inc., and FDA informed consumers and healthcare providers that Baby’s Bliss Gripe Water, apple flavor, with a code of 26952V and expiration date of October 2008 (10/08) is being recalled due to the presence of Cryptosporidium infection.
The product is labeled Baby’s Bliss. Pediatrician Recommended Gripe Water. Apple Flavor. An herbal supplement used [...]

September 21 is World Peace Day established by the United Nations. Now more than ever this call for peace. Is crutial.
The International Day of Peace, established by a United Nations resolution in 1981 to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly, was first inaugurated on the third Tuesday of September, 1982. Beginning on [...]

Air pollution could be putting patients with heart disease at risk by affecting blood vessels and clotting, researchers warn.
A study by the University of Edinburgh and Ume? University, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, measured the effects of diesel exhaust on heart and blood vessel function in men who have previously [...]

New research suggests a mechanism for air pollution leading to heart attacks.
Researcher has established a strong link between air pollution and heart disease. However, exactly how it happens has not been researched.
According to researchers, this is the first study showing a biological mechanism for how pollution could trigger a heart attack or [...]

A study by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) finds that the number of children getting cancer is skyrocketing.
For children 18 and under, the number admitted to hospitals as cancer patients has exploded by 80%, between 2000 and 2005.
The report follows a recent study from Harvard that found U.S. kids [...]

Next time you hear an ad for that special bacterial hand washing soap this test says don’t buy it, regular soap will do just as well.
A test by McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), found that the scrubbing action when washing with good old soap and warm water got the bad bacteria the best over other [...]

Researchers have identified a protein in blood linked to all stages of lung cancer that is rarely present in the blood of people without lung cancer.
Researchers presented their findings today in Atlanta, Georgia at the American Association for Cancer Research’s second International Conference on Molecular Diagnostics in Cancer Therapeutic Development.
A diagnostic blood test to screen [...]

Liver cancer is difficult to treat and is the second most deadly cancer in the world today, and there is no consensus on the best treatment of liver cancer. Nor are the causes of liver cancer completely understood.
The liver is a common site of metastases from a variety of organs such as lung, [...]

A study from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has found that patients who ate a “Western” type diet were over three times more likely to face a recurrence of colon cancer recur compared to patients whit a more “prudent” diet unlike a Western-like.
According to lead author, [...]

Using the power of the internet and video posting, a new web broadcasting site, Quantum Shift TV, is challenging students from grades one to twelve across the United States and Canada to participate in positive social activism with a school video contest.
The contest caled “Be the Change! Share the Story!” School Video Contest. [...]