Are Schools Required To Notify Parents Of Contagious Diseases?
An incident in a Florida school has caused parents across the country to question just how much — or little — their children’s schools are required to tell them about contagious diseases students have. After twostudents caught hand, foot, and mouth disease at Lakeview Elementary School in Sarasota, school officials defended the fact that they hadn’t warned parents about the disease, saying the Florida Department of Health...
Mutant mosquitoes to breed out diseases
Scientists in Brazil are preparing to release millions of factory-bred mosquitoes in an attempt to wipe out their distant cousins that carry tropical diseases. The insects’ method: have sex and then die. British firm Oxitec says its genetically modified mosquitoes will swarm in among ordinary species such as Aedes aegypti, the insect that carries feared diseases such as Zika, dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya. They will mate...
Screening infants could prevent early heart attacks
Screening young children for high cholesterol at the same time as they receive routine vaccinations could prevent hundreds of heart attacks in young adults each year, researchers in Britain said Wednesday. Their study in the New England Journal of Medicine aimed to uncover a silent killer in young adults known as familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), a genetic disorder that often leads to early heart disease. FH runs in families, and if...
Focus on a balance of omega-6 and -3 for better health
In order to tackle growing obesity rates, diets need to include more omega-3 fatty acids and fewer omega-6s, according to a new report published in the online journal Open Heart. The group of experts believe a better balance of omega-3 and -6 in the diet is a more effective way of improving health than current nutrition policies, which focus on calories and energy expenditure and have “failed miserably over the past 30 years,” said Dr...
Autism study shows lasting benefits of early interaction
A year-long training programme to help parents communicate with their very young autistic children reduced symptoms of the disorder up to six years later, according to a follow-up analysis released today. Children were less impaired in their ability to communicate, and less likely to show repetitive behaviour, one of the telltale signs of the disorder. They did not, however, show improvements in language skills or reduced anxiety,...
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