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Children should not be left unsupervised with dogs, say experts
02-22-2007 · EurekAlert!Children should not be left unsupervised to play with a dog, say experts in this week's BMJ. Their advice is part of a review aimed at doctors who deal with dog bites.
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- Dogs that bite children have often not bitten kids before
10-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
Dogs that bite children have often not bitten kids before, but they tend to have underlying behavioral or medical problems, indicates research in the journal Injury Prevention.The research team analysed the circumstances surrounding 111 cases of dog bite over a period of four years. All the 103 dogs involved had bitten children, and had been referred to the same veterinary behavior clinic.
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- Prescribing of antibiotics to children still at a level to cause drug resistance, warn experts
07-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Regular prescribing of antibiotics to children in the community is sufficient to sustain a high level of antibiotic resistance in the population, warn experts in a study published online today.UK general practitioners are strongly encouraged to reduce antibiotic prescribing to minimize the risk of drug resistance, yet prescribing antibiotics to children remains common practice, write David Mant and colleagues at the University of Oxford.
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- Despite claims, not all probiotics can treat diarrhea say experts
08-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
Several probiotic products are marketed as effective treatments for acute diarrhea in children, but a study published online today finds that not all of these preparations are effective.Probiotics are defined as micro-organisms that exert beneficial effects on human health when they colonize the bowel.
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- Computer learns dogspeak
01-16-2008 · EurekAlert!
Computer programs may be the most accurate tool for studying acoustic communications amongst animals, according to Csaba Molnar from Eoetvoes Lorand University in Hungary and his research team. Their paper, published in Springer's journal Animal Cognition this week, shows that a new piece of software is able to classify dog barks according to different situations and even identify barks from individual dogs, a task humans find challenging.
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- Britney and K-Fed doing it all wrong, MU family researcher says
11-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline continue to duke it out in the headlines over the custody of their two children. A University of Missouri-Columbia researcher and expert in divorce and stepfamily issues said this story should open everyone's eyes to the damage that can be inflicted on children who are caught in a custody war.
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- Early treatment of children with bilateral amblyopia essential, according to multisite study
10-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
When a child is farsighted or has astigmatism or has both conditions in both eyes, bilateral amblyopia may develop. In contrast to single-eye amblyopia or "lazy eye," bilateral amblyopia affects both eyes and is less common. In an article published in the October issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology, researchers report that this condition can be successfully treated with corrective lenses, particularly when diagnosed and treated early. Left untreated, bilateral amblyopia may result in permanent visual disability.
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- Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines can improve the lives of HIV-infected children
11-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
An international team of experts has published the first comprehensive review of evidence on pneumococcal conjugate vaccination for children with HIV infection. Now available in the online edition of the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, the review shows that HIV increases the risk of pneumococcal infection by up to 40 fold, that the disease is usually due to serotypes in the PCV, and that the vaccine can protect HIV-infected infants.
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- Researchers identify gene that plays key role in size of dogs
04-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
An international team of scientists, including researchers from Cornell University, have found a mutation in a single gene that plays a key role in determining body-size differences within and among dog breeds and probably is important in determining the size of humans as well.
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- Understanding the global carbon budget -- Woods Hole Research Center expert provides insights
05-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
As climate change becomes a more central issue in local, national, and international discussions, understanding the global carbon budget, and how it influences global warming, will become increasingly crucial. One of the world's preeminent carbon experts, Dr. R. A. Houghton, has authored a synthesis paper on the topic, summarizing the global carbon budget and why it is important. The work is featured in the current issue of the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science.
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- Critically endangered Amur leopard captured
10-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
A rare Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), one of only an estimated 30 left in the wild has been captured and health-checked by experts from a consortium of conservation organizations, before being released.
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