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A study presented at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) 55th Annual Meeting in Chicago demonstrates three treatments are effective in treating anxiety disorders in children and adolescents.

Research published today in The Journal of Bone and joint surgery, British Volume demonstrates for the first time a link between the incidence of fractures in adolescents and social deprivation. The study made use of the Scottish Fracture database from 2000 and combined this with census data from 2001 and used regression analysis to ascertain the relationship between the incidence of fractures and social deprivation.

David Tayloe, Jr. M.D, FAAP, President-elect, American Academy of Pediatrics warns that unproven concerns about vaccine safety have created a backlash that threatens to unleash, once again, deadly diseases on our children. In the past year, over 130 new cases have occurred, all in children who had not been vaccinated. In Dr.

Populations of children who live in counties with higher levels of annual precipitation tend to have higher prevalence of autism, according to a report released on November 3, 2008 in Archives of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. This association may indicate that autism may be influenced by an environmental trigger associated with precipitation. In the past several decades.

Between the ages of three and five, children with a parent deployed to a war zone tend to exhibit more behavior problems than their peers without deployed parents, according to a report released on November 3, 2008 in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. More than two million children in the U.S. have had a parent deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan in the course of the wars, according to the article.

Two non-surgical treatments most commonly used to correct the condition known as clubfoot have similarly high levels of success, according to a new study published in the November 2008 issue of The Journal of Bone and joint surgery (http://www.jbjs.org). While both treatment strategies use different approaches, each brings positive outcomes for most children. Clubfoot (h

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A recent study conducted by researchers at Georgia State University is the first of its kind to demonstrate that administration of preemptive morphine prior to a painful procedure in infancy blocks the long-term negative consequences of pain in adult rodents. These studies have serious implications for the way anesthetics and analgesics are administered to neonates prior to surgery.

Despite ongoing efforts to educate the public about HIV, a new study by researchers from UCLA, the RAND Corp., Harvard University and Children's hospital Boston has found that two-thirds of families with an HIV-infected parent experience fears about spreading HIV in the home. The qualitative study is the first to interview multiple family members, including minor children, in families with an HIV-infected parent about their concerns over HIV transmission in the household.

A government study to track the health of children who lived in FEMA trailers after Hurricane Katrina is still stuck in the planning stages, three years after families first began complaining about health problems related to formaldehyde in their temporary homes.