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By Barbara Bronson Gray HealthDay Reporter Some people call it "brain doping" or "meducation." Others label the problem "neuroenhancement." Whatever the term, the American Academy of Neurology has published a position paper criticizing the practice o...

By Barbara Bronson Gray HealthDay Reporter Some pe...

By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter Black children are less likely than other children to be given antibiotics and less likely to be given the most powerful antibiotics to treat acute respiratory tract infections, new research suggests. Does this re...

By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter Black childre...

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter The number of children in the United States with autism spectrum disorder has jumped dramatically since 2007, federal health officials reported Wednesday. As of 2012, one in 50 kids between the ages of 6 and 17 ...

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter The number o...

By Kathleen Doheny HealthDay Reporter Those convenient, prepackaged meals and snacks for toddlers may contain worrisome levels of salt, U.S. researchers report. More than three quarters of 90 toddler meals evaluated by the U.S. Centers for Disease C...

By Kathleen Doheny HealthDay Reporter Those conve...

If your young children are picky eaters, they may be able to blame it on their genes, according to a new study. The findings add to growing evidence that genes play an important role in children's eating behaviors, including the tendency to avoid new...

If your young children are picky eaters, they may ...

Single-load liquid laundry packets are becoming more popular but need to be used and stored safely. The concentrated detergent in the packets can cause harm if it is swallowed or gets into the eyes, an industry group says. "Laundry packets are differ...

Single-load liquid laundry packets are becoming mo...

About 11 percent of school-age children in the United States -- and 19 percent of high-school-age boys -- have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Th...

About 11 percent of school-age children in the Uni...

Many parents of children with advanced cancer have high to severe levels of psychological distress, a new study finds. The study included 81 parents of children treated for advanced cancer at Boston Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital of Philade...

Many parents of children with advanced cancer have...

There has been a big drop in the number of American children with elevated blood lead levels over the past four decades, but about 2.6 percent of children aged 1 to 5 years still have too much lead in their systems, federal officials reported Thursda...

There has been a big drop in the number of America...

Teen boys with a condition that causes them to have enlarged breasts suffer reduced self-esteem and other mental and emotional health problems, according to a new study. Researchers conducted a series of psychological tests on 47 boys, with an averag...

Teen boys with a condition that causes them to hav...

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter It's not how much time teens spend watching TV but how intensely they watch that adds on the pounds, new research suggests. The same engagement with video games or computers, however, wasn't related to weight ga...

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter It's not ho...

Unlike typically developing children who copy almost everything they see, kids with autism rarely imitate or repeat any nonsensical or silly behavior, according to a small new study. The findings were published April 8 in the journal Current Biology....

Unlike typically developing children who copy almo...

By Lisa Esposito HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, April 16 (HealthDay News) -- It's the day after the Boston Marathon bombings and three people are dead, including an 8-year-old boy who came to cheer his father on during the race. The boy's mother and si...

By Lisa Esposito HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Apri...

The United Nations says over three million children in Syria suffer from direful consequences of the crisis that has gripped the country for over two years. “This emergency is a children’s crisis,” Special Representative of the Secretary-General for ...

The United Nations says over three million childre...

Researchers have warned that eating fast food several times a week can significantly extend the risk of severe asthma, eczema and watery eyes in children. Fast food which often contains high levels of saturated- and trans-fatty acids affects immune s...

Researchers have warned that eating fast food seve...

Breastfeeding, and especially early and exclusive breastfeeding, is one of the most significant ways to improve infant survival rates. However, a woman infected with HIV, can transmit the virus to her child during pregnancy, labour or delivery, and a...

Breastfeeding, and especially early and exclusive ...

Women: Qur’anic examples of outstanding human beingsThere have been many discussions about the Islamic view of women and I have spoken in this regard on many occasions. I have repeatedly said that in the Holy Qur’an women have been mentioned as examp...

Women: Qur’anic examples of outstanding human bein...

By : Ayatollah Seyyed Ali KhameneiWomen in Islam and Islamic Civilization The capacity and capability of women for achieving high spiritual positionsIn such a world the Holy Prophet (PBUH) raised a daughter who improved so much that the Messenger of ...

By : Ayatollah Seyyed Ali KhameneiWomen in Islam a...

By : Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Promoting decadence among women They used to force women to use their physical appeal and attraction in order to create a false character for themselves. This was decadence for women, not improvement or progress. Is...

By : Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Promoting decad...

By : Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Luring women towards luxury and consumerismThere are certain kinds of oppression that have been imposed on women and they are recognized as oppression. There are also certain kinds of oppression that are not recogni...

By : Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Luring women to...

By : Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei The need for cheap labor: a factor behind "women's freedom"Since the day Europeans introduced the new industries - in the early years of the 19th century when western capitalists established the big factories - and ...

By : Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei The need for ch...