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Expert Q&A: Childhood Vaccine Safety
WebMD Health News By Kathleen Doheny Reviewed by Jennifer Shu, MD For parents, childhood vaccines are a source of reassurance — protecting your child against disease naturally helps you sleep better at night — but also anxiety about side effects and reactions. With misinformation about vaccines and health problems, it can be difficult for a parent to sort it all out. For help, WebMD turned to the CDC’s Frank DeStefano, MD, MPH, director of its immunization safety office. Are there dangerous side effects or reactions to childhood vaccines? Fortunately, dangerous side effects or reactions to vaccines are fe...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: mreal197 Tags: WebMD News Source Type: news

Study asks "Do sunny climates reduce ADHD?"
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is the most common childhood psychiatric disorder. Scientists do not know what causes it, but genetics play a clear role. Other risk factors have also been identified, including premature birth, low birth weight, a mother's use of alcohol or tobacco during pregnancy, and environmental exposures to toxins like lead. ADHD is characterized by an inability to focus, poor attention, hyperactivity, and impulsive behavior, and the normal process of brain maturation is delayed in children with ADHD...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: ADHD Source Type: news

Do sunny climates reduce ADHD?
(Elsevier) Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is the most common childhood psychiatric disorder. Scientists do not know what causes it, but genetics play a clear role. Other risk factors have also been identified, including premature birth, low birth weight, a mother's use of alcohol or tobacco during pregnancy, and environmental exposures to toxins like lead.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 21, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Irregular bedtimes make children 'naughtier'
Conclusion This large cohort study indicates that seven-year-old children with non-regular bedtimes have more behavioural difficulties, as reported by both mothers and teachers using a questionnaire, than children who had regular bedtimes. There appeared to be a dose dependent relationship with the behaviour gap between regular and non-regular bedtimes widening as the children got older (from three to seven years old). The behaviour-bedtime relationship appeared to be reversible in both directions as children who adopted new regular bedtimes improved behaviour and those who went from regular bedtimes to non-regular showe...
Source: NHS News Feed - October 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Mental health Pregnancy/child Source Type: news

Treatment of depression in children 'needs improving'
“Children as young as five are now suffering from depression,” says The Daily Telegraph, while the Daily Mail reports on the “worrying rise in the number of children with depression,” saying that almost 80,000 children are now affected. While these figures are cause for concern, they do not represent a sudden worsening of the problems of childhood depression. The statistics on childhood mental health are actually taken from a 2004 report into child mental health. The figures were quoted in a press release that accompanied new “quality standards” for the care of depression in children and young people publishe...
Source: NHS News Feed - September 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Mental health Pregnancy/child QA articles Source Type: news

Autism and ADHD associated with video game 'addiction'
Conclusion This research has strengths in that it has included children with valid clinical diagnoses of ASD and ADHD and has used an established measure to examine problematic video game use. It found that boys with ASD spent significantly longer playing video games than other boys, and that both boys with ASD and ADHD demonstrated greater problematic video game use than boys with “normal” development. However, the main difficulty with this cross sectional study is that it cannot tell us how these developmental conditions and video gaming habits are related to each other. Importantly it cannot tell us whether excessi...
Source: NHS News Feed - August 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Neurology Pregnancy/child Source Type: news

Mothers who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to have children with 'bad behaviour or ADHD'
Leicester University researchers found the children of smoking mothers were more likely to have poor attention spans and show disruptive behaviour.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Causes & Risk Factors of Childhood ADHD
This article discusses the possible causes research has identified so far that may help explain why some children and teenagers get ADHD, while others do not. It then summarizes some of the most well-researched risk factors for ADHD. Possible Causes of Childhood ADHD Genes ADHD appears to have some type of genetic basis in the majority of cases, as a child with ADHD is four times as likely to have had a relative who was also diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. At the moment, researchers are investigating many different genes, particularly ones involved with the brain chemical dopamine. People with ADHD seem to have...
Source: Psych Central - July 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Attention Deficit Disorder Children and Teens Disorders General Adhd Areas Of The Brain Brain Chemical Brain Tissue Building Blocks Causes Of Attention Deficit Disorder Chemical Dopamine Child Rearing Children With Adhd Chromosom Source Type: news