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 Child Information - December 1, 2008
| A new study reveals magnetic resonance imaging techniques can now provide real-time measurements of volume in a fetal heart, and may better enable physicians to plan care for infants with heart defects. By producing three-dimensional measurements, functional MRIs may represent an advance over the current technology, fetal echocardiography | | Fast growing infants are at increased risk of obesity in childhood and adulthood, reports a new BMJ study. Researchers analyzed 24 studies which assessed the relation between infant size and growth and the development of obesity at any later age. They found that the heaviest infants, those with the highest body mass index, and those who gained weight rapidly during the first and second year of life, were more likely to be obese in childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood than other infants | | UNICEF warns thousands of children in regions devastated by South Asia's earthquake are at risk of death from cold, malnutrition and disease. The U.N. agency says in the weeks ahead, the international relief effort must focus on keeping children alive | | or the first time in five years, polio turns up in the United States, after four children in a Minnesota Amish community test positive for the polio virus | | Oakland, CA (AHN) "HIV causes AIDS, Ignorance Kills, Protect Yourself" is the slogan that the Bay Area National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (BANLAAD) coalition has used for this year's National AIDS Awareness Day on October 15, 2005 | |
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