Encyclopedia entry: Children

Article: Patients in US 5 times more likely to spend last days in ICU than ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... did. Of those over 85, only 1.3 percent received ICU care in England vs. 11 percent in the U.S. But young adults and children received ICU services at similar rates in both countries. "These numbers need to be interpreted with caution," explains ...

Article: More students than ever before studying engineering and physical ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     620 words ... ... at school according to a new poll of children aged 5 to 18. Engineering and Physical ... to create a support network for school children to encourage them to engage with science ... Scientist Centre has shown that more children are planning to opt for a science related ...

Article: Quick and easy diagnosis for mitochondrial disorders.
NewsRx Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... difficult to diagnose and treat. Researchers from the Seattle Children's Research Institute teamed up with researchers from the ... Hahn. "Mitochondrial diseases affect as many as 1 in 5000 children; however diagnosis is notoriously difficult due to the huge ...

Article: Halloween sex offender policies questioned.
NewsRx Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... rates of sex crimes against children are concerned." Research ... that the highest danger for children during the Halloween season ... indicated that sex crimes against children by nonfamily members account ... Treaters?: An Analysis of Child Sex Crime Rates on Halloween ...

Article: Geologists studying groundwater arsenic levels in India empower ...
NewsRx Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... groundwater arsenic pollution are women and children armed with pamphlets and testing kits ... Ga. "We are targeting the women and children 13 to 15 years old, because they are ... families." The researchers give women and children information about how sediment traits ...

Article: Weekly and biweekly vitamin D2 prevents vitamin D deficiency.
NewsRx Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... for the prevention and treatment of vitamin D deficiency in children and adults. Continued treatment with the same dose of vitamin ... the food we eat. Vitamin D deficiency can lead to rickets in children and the painful bone disease osteomalacia in adults. Vitamin ...

Article: Immune system quirk could lead to effective tularemia vaccine.
NewsRx Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Immunologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the have found a unique ... immunology at the School of Medicine and an immunologist at Children's Hospital. Until now, scientists thought that eliciting ...