Nigerian parents can harbour harmful views about the causes and treatment of childhood enuresis that result in child abuse - Esezobor CI, Balogun MR.
AIM: The aim of this study was to determine Nigerian parents' views about the causes and treatment of childhood enuresis. METHODS: Parents of children aged 5-17 years were individually interviewed in an urban community in Nigeria using a pre-tested... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 23, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Less is more: Second opinion spares Sam from risky invasive surgery
Like many moms, Brenda Jackson worried about the transition to middle school for her son Sam. He had had mysterious wetting accidents ever since potty training. Doctors had diagnosed an overactive bladder and tried everything — behavioral interventions, medications and dietary changes.
Nothing worked. Fortunately, Sam attended a small Montessori school where all the kids knew and accepted each other.
But as he was getting ready for fifth grade, the specter of middle school, and the teasing that comes with early adolescence, loomed. “That’s a new ball game,” says his Brenda. “We knew we had to take care of thi...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - April 21, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Nancy Fliesler Tags: Our Patients’ Stories bedwetting Dr. Mark Proctor Dr. Samuel Nurko Dr. Stuart Bauer online second opinion tethered cord Tethered Cord Program Source Type: news
FDA releases March 2016 510(k) clearances
510(K) SUMMARIES OR 510(K) STATEMENTS FOR FINAL
DECISIONS RENDERED DURING THE PERIOD March 2016
TOTAL 510(k)s THIS PERIOD 279
TOTAL WITH SUMMARIES 265
TOTAL WITH STATEMENTS 14
DEVICE: QuikRead go CRP, QuikRead go CRP Verification Set, QuikRead go CRP Control Set, and QuikRead go Instrument
ORION DIAGNOSTICA OY 510(k) NO: K142993(Traditional)
ATTN: ANJA KONTIO PHONE NO : 358 509665917
KIVIHARJUNTIE 11 4B SE DECISION MADE: 10-MAR-16
OULU FI 90220 510(k) STATEM...
Source: Mass Device - April 6, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Regulatory/Compliance Source Type: news
New Understanding and Hope for Children on the Autism Spectrum: Based in Brain and Movement Sciences
This study for Fast ForWord was a national U.S. field trial. Another study 452 students had similar findings; M.M.Merzenich et al 1999. Fast ForWord training in children with low reading performance. Nederlandse Vereniging voor Lopopedie en Foniatrie: 1999 Jaarcongres Auditieve Vaardigheden en Spraak-taal. [ Proceedings of the 1999 Nederlands Annual Speech-Language Association Meeting] Merzenich's team began to hear that Fast ForWord was having a number of spillover effects on eg. Handwriting, attention and focus, i.e., it led to some general improvements in mental processing. Doidge, N. 2007. The Brain that Changes Itsel...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 31, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Association between elimination disorders and abusive maternal attitudes - Alpaslan AH, Koçak U, Avcı K, Guzel HI.
OBJECTIVE: Enuresis and encopresis, both conditions are very distressful to children and their family members and it is responsible for significant social and psychological consequences in children and adolescents. The present study aims to determine the r... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 19, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
When liquids get up close and personal with powders
Every cook knows that dissolving powder into a liquid, such as semolina in milk or polenta in water, often creates lumps. What they most likely don't know is that physicists spend a lot of time attempting to understand what happens in those lumps. In a review paper, scientists share their insights following ten years of research into the wetting of soluble polymer substrates by droplets of solvents like water. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - March 3, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
When liquids get up close and personal with powders
(Springer) Every cook knows that dissolving powder into a liquid, such as semolina in milk or polenta in water, often creates lumps. What they most likely don't know is that physicists spend a lot of time attempting to understand what happens in those lumps. In a review paper published in EPJ E, scientists from France, share their insights following ten years of research into the wetting of soluble polymer substrates by droplets of solvents like water. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 3, 2016 Category: Biology Source Type: news
South Africa: Bedwetting Accidents - When Parents Kill...
[News24Wire] Bedwetting is common in kids but, as the case of the Bloemhof man who beat a child to death for wetting herself shows, this normal phase can drive parents to kill. In this three-part series, Health24 takes a look at why this happens and finds that punishment for enuresis is all too real. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 17, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Patient safety alert: omission or delay of desmopressin
Patient safety alert: Risk of severe harm or death when desmopressin is omitted or delayed in patients with cranial diabetes insipidus
A stage one patient safety alert has been issued by NHS Englan (Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News)
Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News - February 9, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Desmopressin Acetate Injection (New - Currently in Shortage)
Updated Drug Shortage (Source: FDA Drug Shortages)
Source: FDA Drug Shortages - January 14, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Why your wheezing baby may need TLC, not medication
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When a baby is sick with fever, cough, and a wheeze, it’s natural to think that what they need is medication — like an antibiotic, or one of the medications used to treat wheezing in children with asthma (such as albuterol). But it turns out that if a condition called bronchiolitis is the culprit, the best treatment is no treatment.
Bronchiolitis is a bad cold (caused by various viruses) that settles into the lungs. When it does, it leads to fever, lots of congestion, cough, and noisy or wheezy breathing. It’s incredibly common. In fact, one in five babies under 12 months ends up at the doctor...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - January 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Cold and Flu Parenting wheezing Source Type: news
Not as bad as you might think – Ali’s story
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So, I am four weeks and four days post hysterectomy. I asked them to leave my ovaries as at 49 I didn’t want to go into the menopause any earlier than necessary . I also asked them to leave my cervix on the basis that ,to my mind ,the only reason to remove it was to prevent future cervical cancer. But on that basis I should also have my breasts removed to prevent breast cancer …so no ,I kept my cervix.
My hysterectomy was about 11 years in the offing. I had a huge fibroid …the equivalent size of an...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - December 24, 2015 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Your Stories fibroids Source Type: news
Not as bad as you might think – Ali ’ s story
So, I am four weeks and four days post hysterectomy. I asked them to leave my ovaries as at 49 I didn’t want to go into the menopause any earlier than necessary . I also asked them to leave my cervix on the basis that ,to my mind ,the only reason to remove it was to prevent future cervical cancer. But on that basis I should also have my breasts removed to prevent breast cancer …so no ,I kept my cervix.
My hysterectomy was about 11 years in the offing. I had a huge fibroid …the equivalent size of an 18 weeks pregnancy which I had had since my first child was born and soon after my second was advised to hav...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - December 24, 2015 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health fibroids hysterectomy stories Source Type: news
