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PUBLIC MARKS from Newspartnergroup with tag kids

May 2008

Low carb diet curbs epileptic fits

Giving children with epilepsy a special low carb diet reduces the number of seizures they experience by 75% compared with children on a normal diet, according to a study carried out at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Fresh fears over mobile phone risk to kids' health

NEW research has triggered fresh fears for the long-term health of children and teenagers who use mobile phones today.

April 2008

Common food additives 'to be banned by 2009' to cut hyperactivity in children by 75%

A ban on certain additives in food could be in place as early as next year after research showed it could cut hyperactivity in children by a third and reduce anti-social behaviour.

1 in 15 kids hurt in medicine mix-ups at hospitals

Medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses and bad drug reactions harm roughly one out of 15 hospitalized children, according to the first scientific test of a new detection method.

December 2007

November 2007

Spider-Man, Barbie being used to sell additive-laden food to kids

Kids' characters including 'Doctor Who,' 'Spider-Man' and 'Barbie' are being used by food companies to sell products laced with suspect additives. It was found that chemicals identified as causing hyperactive behaviour in healthy children were present in 95 per cent of top-selling cakes and hundreds of sweets, fizzy drinks and processed foods.

October 2007

Teaching your child more about oral health than the tooth fairy

When do I start to bring my child to the dentist for an appointment? When do they start getting teeth as infants? How many teeth will they have? When do children start brushing?