Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Constraint of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 may help to reduce the effect of respiratory syncytial virus infection in children
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Intervention focused on ethics and exploitative tactics in the tobacco industry.
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Global cardio-renal intervention trial sets out to understand the long-term complications of cardiovascular disease in young people with type 1 diabetes.
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Obesity in children and adolescents has increased ten-fold worldwide in the past 40 years, say researchers who call for treatments such as behavioural therapy
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Teenage girls are more likely to self-harm than boys, possibly due to factors such as puberty and the onset of sexual activity, researchers say.
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Children with multiple sclerosis are at an increased risk of relapse with a fatty diet but a high vegetable intake may halve the risk of relapse, a study has
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Globally, obesity has increased in children and adolescents from 1975 to 2016, according to a study in the Lancet journal.
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Doctors say protective eyewear should be worn when playing with Nerf guns.
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Results of a Danish nationwide register-based cohort study
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A study into whether webcams can help with early bonding for parents of premature babies found the majority benefit from the ability to see their baby at any
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A study of child and adolescent mental health care has found provision needs to be improved across all the countries in the European Union.
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Study finds forgetfulness, poor routines and failure to understand asthma as a condition are main catalysts behind adolescents not using their inhalers.
Causes of major birth defects remain largely unknown, say researchers who studied thousands of cases but could establish a definite cause in only one in every five such infants.
An American review into allergenic food tolerance has found that introduction to certain food types earlier on in life can reduce the risks of developing allergies.
Children spend less time doing physical activity as they progress through primary school, research has found.
Problems going through airport security for people with Type 1 diabetes who use insulin pump therapy (IPT) show that airports worldwide need a standardised policy.
A BMJ study has found that babies born prematurely, can benefit from mothers taking corticosteroids before birth.
Children who spend three hours or more looking at screens are likely to be increasing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to an observational study
