How Twitter and Facebook expose children to websites for prostitutes: Vice-girl ads are illegal in phone boxes, so why not social media?

'There is a real risk that children, who are great users of Facebook, will stumble across these pages accidentally,' says Pippa Smith, co-chairman of Safermedia, which campaigns for a family-friendly internet.

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For Hospitalized Children, Close-to-the-heart Catheters Seems Safer

When it comes to choosing correct catheter placement in children, a new Johns Hopkins Children's Center study shows the real-estate mantra also holds true. The research findings, described online March 18 in iJAMA Pediatrics/i, show that catheters in children inserted in a vessel in the arm or leg and not threaded into a large vein near the heart are nearly four times as likely to dislodge, cause vein inflammation or dangerous blood clots as are catheters advanced ...

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Study: Periconceptional Nutrition May Affect Functioning of Genes In Children

According to a new study, food that soon-to-be-moms eat in the days and weeks around the time of conception-or what's known as periconceptional nutrition-may affect the functioning of genes in her children, and their health. In an early study, U. S. Department of Agriculture-funded research molecular geneticist Robert A. Waterland and co-investigators examined gene function of 50 healthy children living in rural villages in the West African nation of The Gambia. ...

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Autistic Children are More Prone to Suicide

Children with autism are at an increased risk of contemplating and attempting suicide when compared to children without autism, according to researchers at the Penn State College of Medicine. Psychiatrists analyzed the information collected from parents of 791 autistic children, 186 neurotypical children and 35 children who were depressed but were not autistic. It was found that certain demographic factors like being a male, aged above 10 years, being ...

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Dangers Of Magnet Ingestion by Young Children Illustrated By New Study

A new case study illustrates in iCMAJ/i that physicians and parents must be aware of the growing danger of magnet ingestion by children because magnets can adhere to each other and cause life-threatening problems such as bowel perforations. "Modern magnet technology has transformed what was once an esoteric subtype of foreign-body ingestion into a common and lethal threat," writes Dr. Daniel Rosenfield, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children ...

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