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5/31/10 Project LAUNCH to Boost Preschoolers' Emotional Development in Providence

5/31/10 Project LAUNCH to boost preschoolers' emotional development in Providence

Providence Journal - Gina Macris

Rhode Island was one of the first six states to get grants for Project LAUNCH (Linking Actions for Unment Needs for Children's Health). ...

5/31/10 Tech Gap Exists Between Parents, Children's Doctors

5/31/10 Tech gap exists between parents, children's doctors

American Medical News - Pamela Lewis Dolan

... on Children's Health, funded by the University of Michigan Dept. of Pediatrics and Communicable Disease, and Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit, ...

5/30/10 Women Can Have Successful Pregnancy Despite Recurrent Miscarriages

Women Can Have Successful Pregnancy Despite Recurrent Miscarriages

Medical News Today

... specialists shared this information at a recent community seminar, "Prevailing Over Recurrent Pregnancy Loss," presented by Women's Health at Stanford. ...

5/29/10 Consider Teen Activity Options When Choosing Where to Live

5/29/10 Consider Teen Activity Options When Choosing Where to Live
Health Behavior News Service
A new Journal of Adolescent Health study correlated the incidence of obesity in students grades eight through ten with options for physical activity in their immediate environment.

5/28/10 - Employers Urged to Act Now to Expand Health Plans

5/28/10 Employers Urged to Act Now to Expand Health Plans

New York Times - Robert Pear 

For many employers, with health plans that operate on a calendar-year schedule, the deadline is Jan. 1. Many employers have not decided whether to comply ...

5/28/10 - Studies Find Increasing Health Benefits From Vitamin D

5/28/10 Studies Find Increasing Health Benefits From Vitamin D

Voice of America - Carol Pearson 

"If you look at things like infection, pre-term delivery, even gestational diabetes mellitus, they are all reduced with givng pregnant women higher doses of ...

5/28/10 - Health Tip: Help Prevent Exercise-Induced Asthma

5/28/10 Health Tip: Help Prevent Exercise-Induced Asthma

BusinessWeek

Try sports that may not aggravate asthma as much as others, such as swimming or baseball. Avoid sports that involve constant movement, such as basketball, ...

5/28/10 Quality Health Care Still Lacking For Some

Quality Health Care Still Lacking For Some

Miller-McCune.com - Barbara Hesselgrave

Lt. Karen Ho of the US Public Health Service and lead staff at the agency's Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, says the latest report, ...

5/28/10 White House Puts Spotlight on Foundation Support for Social Innovation Fund

5/28/10 White House Puts Spotlight on Foundation Support for Social Innovation Fund

Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription) - Suzanne Perry

... said First Lady Michelle Obama, who made the announcement at a White House gathering attended by a variety of philanthropic and nonprofit leaders. ...

5/27/10 - Nation's youth not getting enough exercise, report says

5/27/10 Nation's youth not getting enough exercise, report says

Endocrine Today 

... and reduce their risk for heart disease, type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases,” CDC director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, said in a press release. ...

5/27/10 - Depressed RA Patients Disagree With Doctors

5/27/10 Depressed RA Patients Disagree With Doctors

WebMD - Bill Hendrick 

Assessments of many diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension, can be made based on objective numerical measures, but rheumatoid arthritis lacks a "gold ...

5/27/10 - Work stress linked to higher asthma risk

5/27/10 Work stress linked to higher asthma risk

Reuters 

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who regularly feel stressed out by their jobs may have a higher risk of developing asthma than those with a more-relaxed ...

5/27/10 FDA Warns Acid Reflux Drugs May Increase Fracture Risk

FDA Warns Acid Reflux Drugs May Increase Fracture Risk 

eMaxHealth - Deborah Mitchell ‎

... Medicine evaluated the risk of fracture among 130487 postmenopausal women ages 50 to 79 who were enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative study. ...

5/27/10 NIH Study Finds that Overweight Girls who Lose Weight Reduce Adult Diabetes Risk

5/27/10 NIH Study Finds That Overweight Girls Who Lose Weight Reduce Adult Diabetes Risk

National Institutes of Health (press release)

The study was conducted by researchers at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Along with the NICHD, ...

5/27/10 The Nation: When Teen Pregnancy is No Accident

5/27/10 The Nation: When Teen Pregnancy Is No Accident

NPR - Lynn Harris

It's not the only cause of teen pregnancy, but it's one that we'd managed to miss for a very long time." The new data is both alarming and promising. ...

5/27/10 Study: Michigan's Mental Health Care System for Children & Youth a National Model

5/27/10 Study: Michigan's Mental Health Care System for Children & Youth a National Model

The Daily Tell

Michigan is a national leader in implementing such a mechanism for state accountability in children's mental health. · The state's assessment tools allow it ...

5/26/10 Routine mammograms important to women's health

Routine mammograms important to women's health

Lancaster Eagle Gazette - Robert Darwin

Technological advancements have made many improvements in women's health care. In addition to the conventional mammogram, advanced imaging options are ...

5/26/10 Risk of Colon Cancer Double for Older Women With Type 2 Diabetes

Risk of Colon Cancer Double for Older Women With Type 2 Diabetes

Diabetes Health (press release) - Patrick Totty

Their study analyzed tissue samples derived from participants in a women's health study that has been going on since 1986. Starting that year, the Iowa ...

5/26/10 Nicotine addiction: A women's health crisis

Nicotine addiction: A women's health crisis 

Osceola Sentinel Tribune ‎

"Seeing your health care provider is an important first step and can be a good source of support to discuss options to help you stop smoking. ...

5/26/10 Rapid Weght Gain by Age 1 Year May Improve Neurodevelopment of Preterm Infants

5/26/10 Rapid Weight Gain by Age 1 Year May Improve Neurodevelopment of Preterm Infants

Medscape - Laurie Barclay

The National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and Pew Charitable Trust supported this study. ...