 | | | | Children's Health Headlines | | | TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- A new survey finds that half of Canadian adults polled say they were bullied as a child or teenager.
CHICAGO (Chicago Tribune) -- Children living next to driveways or parking lots coated with coal tar are exposed to significantly higher doses of cancer-causing chemicals than those living near untreated asphalt, according to a study that raises new questions about commonly used pavement sealants.
MOSCOW (AP) -- A rash of teenage suicides in Russia has set off alarm bells and experts are urging the government to take immediate action.
(Chicago Tribune) -- Oh, to be born in 2012.
MILAN (Canadian Press) -- A former prima ballerina's repeated statements that anorexia is rampant at Milan's famed La Scala theatre have startled the dance corps, which issued a statement Wednesday denying the eating disorder was an issue.
HONG KONG (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Chinese mothers who travel to Hong Kong to give birth to a second child are being fined on their return for breaching Beijing's one-child policy, a radio report said Tuesday.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Junk food remains plentiful at the nation's elementary schools despite widespread efforts to curb childhood obesity, a new study suggests.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.
LONDON (AP) -- Malaria may be killing around twice as many people as experts previously thought, and it could also be hitting older children and adults -- long considered the least susceptible -- a new study suggests.
HOLLIS, Maine (AP) -- A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes -- and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumor.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Fifteen teenage girls report a mysterious outbreak of spasms, tics and seizures in upstate New York. But tests find nothing physically wrong.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first drug that treats the root cause of cystic fibrosis won approval Tuesday, offering a life-changing treatment for a handful of patients with the deadly illness and broader hope for thousands more patients with the inherited disease.
ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) -- American schools will serve more of the good stuff -- vegetables, fruits and whole grains -- and less of the not-so-good -- salt, fat and sugar -- under new rules issued Wednesday, the first to significantly revamp the nation's school lunch program in 15 years.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California did not suffer a single death from whooping cough in 2011, the first year since 1991 that there have been no fatalities in the state from the highly contagious illness, health officials said Tuesday.
CHICAGO (Chicago Tribune) -- The recent news of three Chicago-area children fatally crushed by falling TVs has rippled far beyond their communities to help reignite the debate on TV safety.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Premiering tonight on Fox TV is "Touch," a drama centered on a mute, emotionally withdrawn 10-year-old named Jake who possesses genius-level math skills. Just released, meanwhile, is the film "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," whose 10-year protagonist, Oskar Schell, exhibits mildly autistic traits. It earned an Oscar nomination for best picture Tuesday.
CHICAGO (AP) -- An acid reflux drug often used for hard-to-treat asthma doesn't help children with the breathing disease and may cause side effects, a study in 300 children found.
(USA TODAY) -- Grant Schlager sounds like a typical Minnesota kid: He loves to play outside, no matter how cold it gets, and he's pretty excited that a slow-to-start snow season is finally underway.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- One of the world's smallest surviving babies is headed home.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- A study of helmets used by children for winter activities offers some new data on the various types of head protection that would suit tobogganers.
PARIS (The New York Times News Service) -- "Le Mur," or "The Wall," a small documentary film about autism released online last year, might normally not have attracted much attention. But an effort by French psychoanalysts to keep it from public eyes has helped to make it into a minor cause and shone a spotlight on the way children in France are treated for mental health problems.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A new government study suggests a lot of teenage girls are clueless about their chances of getting pregnant.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The parents of a 3-year-old New Jersey girl who claim she's being denied a kidney transplant because of her mental disabilities said their problems may be with one doctor, and not The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
(USA TODAY) -- When Chrissy and Joe Rivera walked into a conference room at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia a few days ago, they expected to see a slide show to help them prepare their 3-year-old, Amelia, for a kidney transplant.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too.
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