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Thousands of children in Florida's KidCare program over the past five months may have been improperly dropped from the program's rolls because of a glitch in the state's computer system, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports.

The following summarize efforts and events that seek to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities. Asian Liver Center:

Breastfeeding for at least four months helps children breathe more easily and may curb their susceptibility to asthma, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Thorax. The findings are based on almost 1500 British children born on the Isle of Wight between 1989 and 1990 (Isle of Wight Birth Cohort), whose respiratory health was tracked at the ages of 1, 2, 4 and 10. Extensive information was gathered during their check-ups.

Mothers with any form of serious mental illness are more likely to have children who are stillborn or who die within the first month, finds research published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood (Fetal and Neonatal Edition). But the links between the causes of stillbirth and newborn death depend on the type of mental illness the mother has, the research shows. the researchers looked at 1.

Elementary School students will eat more whole grains when healthier bread products are gradually introduced into their school lunches, a new University of Minnesota study shows. Whole grain breads are strongly recommended as part of a healthy diet, but children and pre-teens won't always eat them.

On Nov. 8 and 9, Morgan Stanley Children's hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center hosted an "Innovations in Pediatric Medicine" conference at the Grand Hyatt new york, which featured lectures by international leading authorities in pediatric biomedical research, genetic findings and stem cell therapy breakthroughs.

Children under the age of three who had hernia surgery showed almost twice the risk of behavioral or developmental problems later compared to children who had not undergone the surgery, according to a study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public health and the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

The International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) has just announced the creation of a new outreach program in Skopje, Macedonia with the goal of advancing pediatric transplantation in this underserved region of South East Europe. The focus of the outreach program in Skopje will be the establishment of a pediatric liver program.

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Cryobanks International, Inc. (CII), a leader in the collection, processing, and banking of umbilical cord blood, shipped a unit of cord blood for transplant which had been collected in the UMass Memorial Medical Center Cord Blood (UMass Memorial) Donation Program. UMass Memorial collaborated with CII to establish the Cord Blood Donation Program in October 2006 and has collected more than 1,000 units since its inception.