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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 31 (UPI) – Although the poor have a higher risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer, many children who grow up poor have good health as adults, Canadian searchers say. Edith Chen and Gregory E. Miller of the University of British Columbia say poor children are less likely to have a [...]

Published: March. 26, 2012 at 10:59 PM BALTIMORE, March 26 (UPI) – Children with autism spectrum disorder are bullied three times more frequently than their siblings who did not have autism, U.S. researchers found. Dr. Paul Law, director of the Interactive Autism Network Project at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, said the study found 63 percent [...]

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 29 (HealthDay News) — Children and teens who are overweight or obese are more likely to have asthma than their healthy-weight peers, a new study finds. The strength of the association between asthma and obesity varied by race and ethnicity. The strongest association between body-mass index (BMI), a measure of body fat based [...]

Published: Jan. 4, 2012 at 4:22 PM CINCINNATI, Jan. 4 (UPI) — Three-fourths of U.S. preschool-age children are in child care centers with little opportunity for recommended levels of physical activity, researchers say. Kristen A. Copeland of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and colleagues said the study involved nine focus groups with 49 child care [...]

Published: Dec. 28, 2011 at 2:00 AM OTAGO, New Zealand, Dec. 28 (UPI) — Events experienced by children as young as age 2 can be recalled later, researchers in New Zealand found. Study leader Fiona Jack, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago, and colleagues looked at about 50 children and their parents. The [...]

Published: Dec. 13, 2011 at 12:04 AM EAST LANSING, Mich., Dec. 13 (UPI) — Teaching young children with autism to imitate others may improve their social skills, U.S. researchers suggest. Brooke Ingersoll, an assistant professor of psychology at Michigan State University, found toddlers and preschoolers with autism who were taught imitation skills made more attempts [...]

Published: Nov. 16, 2011 at 1:24 PM STRATFORD, N.J., Nov. 16 (UPI) — Most U.S. children who are sexually abused do not experience assault, because most perpetrators want to repeat the activities, researchers say. Dr. Martin Finkel and Dr. Esther Deblinger, co-directors and co-founders of the Child Abuse, Research and Education Services Institute at the [...]

Published: Sept. 19, 2011 at 11:52 PM WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) — The United Nations Foundation in Washington has announced a campaign to expand access to vaccines for children in developing countries, called Shot@Life. Timothy E. Wirth, president of the U.N. Foundation, says Shot@Life is a national grassroots movement that will educate, connect and empower [...]

Nearly 100 children aged between five and seven in Britain have been treated for anorexia or bulimia in the past three years, according to figures released on Monday. The statistics show that 197 children aged between five and nine were treated in hospital in England for eating disorders, fuelling campaigners’ fears that young children are [...]