Child Health

Francine R. Kaufman, M.D. Begins Term as Diabetes Education Program Chair

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Francine R. Kaufman, M.D., director of the Comprehensive Childhood Diabetes Center and head of the Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, began a three-year term as chair of the...

Alnylam Scientists Present Data from Multiple Programs at the 4th Annual Meeting of the...

therapeutics,“_ said Jack Schmidt, M.D., Alnylam's Chief Scientific Officer. ”The new data demonstrate our continued success in optimizing small interfering RNAs and in achieving delivery of RNAi therapeutics. Further, our...

Rare paediatric surgery performed

GUNTUR: A rare paediatric surgery was conducted under Arogyasri scheme at Yerra’s Super Specialty Hospital here on a four-and-a-half year old boy hailing from Dornala in Prakasam district. At a press conference here on...

Second GCC Learning Disability Conference held in UAE

Not only do learning and literacy difficulties in individuals differ but it is also different in the acquisition of one language to the other as differences in phonological features has varying outcomes on literacy, said a...

HealthWatch: Childhood Obesity A Family Affair

Our nation's obesity epidemic is most devastating to our kids. Obese children are at high risk of becoming obese adults and facing health problems along the way. Now, research says that weight loss in kids may not only be about...

Global Handwashing Day

Pakistan never declared polio-free: WHO Thursday, October 16, 2008 By Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: The Representative of the World Health Organisation in Pakistan, Dr Khalif Bile, has said that Pakistan has never been declared a...

Optional intervention gives choice

Marcia Langton | October 16, 2008 THE rancorous debate about the Northern Territory emergency response emanates from two broad camps: those who claim that several measures, particularly compulsory welfare quarantining and...

Looking Forward To A Better Treatment For Childhood Cancer

Children who are diagnosed with cancer could benefit from better diagnosis and treatment in the future thanks to a new research project involving clinicians and scientists at The University of Nottingham. Experts at the...

Conference Brings Together National Pediatrics Experts For Innovations In Pediatric Medicine

In the last decade, biomedical and research breakthroughs, notably in genetics and stem cells, have helped transform the care of children, improving diagnosis and treatment for numerous diseases. On Nov.

A 'life of pain' can be prevented

The Editor, Sir:We were interested to read the recent article by Paul Williams (The Gleaner, September 29, Page C6) titled 'A dream deferred, a life of pain', the latter referring to a patient with sickle cell disease, Coy Hall.