By BARBARA ORTUTAY and HALELUYA HADERO Sexual predators. Addictive features. Suicide and eating disorders. Unrealistic beauty standards. Bullying. These are just some of the issues young people are dealing with on social media — and children’s advocates and lawmakers say companies are not doing enough to protect them. On Wednesday, the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, … Read more
Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear. A small study published Wednesday documents significantly restored hearing in five of six kids treated in China. On Tuesday, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced similar improvements in an 11-year-old boy treated there. And earlier this month, Chinese researchers published a study showing … Read more
STOCKHOLM: One out of every three children who suffer bacterial meningitis has irreversible neurological impairments as a result of the infection.This is according to a recent epidemiological study done by Karolinska Institutet and published in the top medical journal JAMA Network Open.For the first time, researchers have determined the long-term health consequences of bacterial meningitis.The … Read more
Nearly 27% of children in the age group of 14-18 years in Hathras cannot read a Class 2 level text fluently in Hindi, at least 43.2% are unable to read sentences in English and 44.4% cannot perform division, according to the latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) survey released on Wednesday. In Hathras, about … Read more
ENCOURAGING FREE PLAY OF FOOTBALL One could argue that if parents were serious about getting their kids involved in sports, they could enrol them in a football academy or encourage them to take it up as a co-curricular activity at school. But these structured programmes do not fully replicate the benefits of free play. Parents … Read more
DIAGNOSIS of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be life-altering for a child. There are factors that make such a diagnosis challenging for doctors. The creeping influence of subjective interviews makes it a lot harder for doctors to get the diagnosis right. Parents feel responsible to their child, which can trigger a bias that affects … Read more
One complication of training a kindergartener is that it can’t be too intense, said Mr Zikri. “We can’t go too fast, and I need to tone down the intensity for him so that it’s still fun for him … (so the challenge is) keeping it fun for him and getting him to stay motivated.” Ms … Read more
But Gagandeep Singh, joint director at Haryana’s Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), told Reuters on Thursday (Dec 21) that he was thoroughly going through Yashpal’s complaint, had taken the views of various sides, and was close to finishing his probe. “The whole complaint was quite comprehensive and exhaustive,” he said. “I’ve been given the direction … Read more
By Paul Sisson | San Diego Union-Tribune There have always been similarities between Orange and San Diego counties. Both have about 3 million residents and dozens of miles of coastline. And another similarity is in the works. On Wednesday, Children’s Hospital of Orange County and Rady Children’s Hospital announced their intent to merge, pending regulatory … Read more
Parents who intend to send a child to House of Love are first interviewed to determine if they are really incapable of caring for the kid, said Dr Pang. “If I sense an attitude problem (with the parents), I will tell them straight away that I won’t take in the child,” he said. Sometimes, he … Read more
