Cold meds send 7,000 kids to hospitals
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Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the U.S. government said Monday in its first national estimate of the problem.
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SATURDAY, Dec. 11 (HealthDayNews) -- Dr. Jack M. Gwaltney Jr. used to get a lot of colds when his children were little and, later, when his grandchildren came to visit; catching a cold is almost inevitable with little germ factories running around the house.
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About 22.4 million doses of Aventis Pasteur flu vaccine that have not been shipped yet to customers will be redirected to public health departments, nursing homes and veterans hospitals to
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The number of city kids who have died from abuse or neglect this year is up an alarming 57%, officials said yesterday. Some 58 kids died from suspected maltreatment during the first nine months
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A survey finds that more than 30m Chinese children are suffering from mental health or behavioural problems.
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A growing number of children are taking combinations of powerful and even life-threatening medications to treat an array of problems.
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MIANCHI, China -- Twice a week, just after school lets out in this small county in Henan province, a 13-year-old girl with a short bob and wide smile holds her parents' hands and walks two blocks down the street into the harsh fluorescent light of an emergency medical station.
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As many as 120 children in Russiaâs Northern Caucausus region have been hospitalized with dysentery and other intestinal infections after drinking milk products served at their kindergartens.
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The medicines long used by parents to treat their children's coughs and colds don't work and shouldn't be used in those younger than 6, federal health advisers recommended Friday.
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MONDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Some 7,000 American children under the age of 11 are treated each year in hospital emergency rooms because of problems with cough and cold medications, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Kids who need their tonsils  removed can be in and out of the hospital on the same day, in  many cases, Spanish doctors report.
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A hospital has closed its neonatal and pediatrics intensive care units to new admissions after a potentially fatal bacterium sickened seven children, including an infant who may have died from the infection, officials said Friday.
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About 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday, mostly from diseases that could be prevented with simple, affordable measures, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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More children in the world today are being prescribed antidepressants by doctors despite concerns over their safety and efficacy in this age group.
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A substantial number of "adverse events" -- many of which could have been prevented -- affect children in hospitals each year, according to a new study.
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The use of drugs to treat hyperactivity in children has soared worldwide, a US study shows.
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About 3.1 million Americans ages 12  to 25 -- about 5 percent of that age group -- have at some time  used an over-the-counter cough and cold medication to get high,  a U.S. government survey to be released on Thursday said.