The News Review:
- TV Watching Doesn’t Fast-Track Baby’s Skills
- Need for children’s public health care services is growing
- Low Levels of Vitamin B12 May Increase Risk for Neural Tube Defects
- Information Parents Need on Vaccines and Their Child’s Health
- Swimming lessons lower drowning risk in toddlers
- Breastfeeding While Driving
TV Watching Doesn’t Fast-Track Baby’s Skills
ABC News
MNDAY March 2 (HealthDay News) — The next time you pass by a shelf full of videos claiming to be educationally stimulating for babies you might want to think twice before pulling out your wallet. A new study suggests that watching television won’t improve a baby’s language or cognitive skills even if they watch several hours a day. “TV in and of itself doesn’t seem to have an influence on cognition at age 3″ said the study’s lead author Marie Evans Schmidt a research associate at the Center on Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston. Results of the study were published in the March issue of the journal Pediatrics. In 1999 the American Academy of Pediatrics began recommending that children under 2 years of age not have any screen time at all. But more than two-thirds of American kids in the under-2 age group watch TV daily and about 25 percent of those kids also have a TV in their bedrooms according to background information in the study.
Need for children’s public health care services is growing
HollandSentinel.com
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Low Levels of Vitamin B12 May Increase Risk for Neural Tube Defects
DG News
Women with the lowest B12 levels had 5 times the risk of having a child with a neural tube defect compared with women with the highest B12 levels. "Vitamin B12 is essential for the functioning of the nervous system and for the production of red blood cells" said Duane Alexander MD National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Bethesda Maryland. "The results of this study suggest that women with low levels of B12 not only may risk health problems of their own but also may increase the chance that their children may be born with a serious birth defect. "Ireland has a high rate of neural tube defects and researchers from the National Institutes of Health Bethesda Maryland have frequently collaborated with Irish researchers to gain insight into the causes of this group of disorders. Molloy PhD Trinity College Dublin Dublin Ireland and colleagues analysed stored blood samples originally collected during early pregnancy from 3 groups of Irish women between 1983 and 1990. During that time pregnant women in Ireland rarely took vitamin supplements.
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Information Parents Need on Vaccines and Their Child’s Health
PR Newswire (press release)
A lot of people say let them get the diseases because these are just childhood diseases every child gets them they’re ok. And that’s true that’s what happened before we had immunizations all of the children got the diseases but a lot of them died. The video and downloadable Q&A are both available at.
Swimming lessons lower drowning risk in toddlers
Los Angeles Times
However until now there was no scientific data on the protective effects of swimming lessons in children ages 1 to 4. A long-awaited study published today concludes that swimming lessons for children ages 1 to 4 lowers the risk of drowning. The study conducted by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development looked at the association between drowning and swimming lessons in children ages 1 to 19 in six states. Interviews were conducted with the families of 88 children who drowned between 2003 and 2005 and with the families of 213 control children who were the same age gender and lived in the same county as those who drowned. The study published in the.
Breastfeeding While Driving
New York Times
The officer who issues the summons stressed that the department was not cracking down on breastfeeding. “ur issue is not the fact that this woman was breastfeeding in public” said officer Michael Burke of the Kettering police department. “ur issue is that she created the condition that placed her child’s health and safety at risk. ” The next day Compton was.
