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Main Menu Home MCQ EMQ Cases Books News News Feeds Guidelines What is Paediatrics? Links Search Contact Us About News from JuniorDr.com Think you have the flu? Time to ask Google Medical Report - James Bond 007 The Killer Net - pro-suicide websites Conscientious objection should be right, say med students Repatriation medicine The Business of Surgery GP consultations increasingly more intense and complex Doctor migration to developed nations costs sub-Saharan Africa billions of dollars GMC cuts fees for all doctors BMA: UKFPO must ?get a grip? on jobs for newly qualified doctors Newsflash MHRA release new paracetamol dosing advice. Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is available as an over the counter medicine and is very frequently administer at home to children for a range of indications including fever and pain. The MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) has released new dosing advice to ensure maximum efficacy and safety. Read more...   News Feeds Pediatrics / Children's Health News From Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Child Abuse - 4,569 Hospitalizations And 300 Deaths In One Year, USA Child abuse injuries resulted in 4,500 hospitalizations and 300 fatalities in just one year in the USA, researchers from Yale School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. This is the first study that has quantified abuse severity and how many children ended up in hospital, the authors added. Child Protective Services had only tracked occurrence of child abuse at a national level. Dr... Lung Function At School Age Better Thanks To Breastfeeding A study by researchers in Switzerland and the UK reveals that breastfeeding is linked to enhanced lung function at school age, especially in children born to asthmatic mothers. The study is published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Claudia E. Kuehni, M.D... Teen Secondhand Smoke Exposure Down, But Not Enough Secondhand Smoke (SHS) exposure among middle and high school students in the USA has dropped over the last ten years, researchers from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) reported in the March edition of Pediatrics... Disturbing Rates Of Child Abuse And Hospitalizations In one year alone, over 4,500 children in the United States were hospitalized due to child abuse, and 300 of them died of their injuries, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study. The findings are published in the March 2012 issue of Pediatrics (published online Feb. 6)... Multiple Exposure To Anesthesia Increases Risk Of ADHD In Young Children Mayo Clinic researchers have found that multiple exposures to anesthesia at a young age are associated with higher rates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Children exposed to two or more anesthetics before age 3 had more than double the incidence of ADHD than children who had no exposure, says David Warner, M.D... [ Back ]

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