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Study links child hunger and poor health to unstable housing (EurekAlert!)
( Boston University ) A new study shows that children whose families move frequently or live in overcrowded conditions are more likely to suffer from hunger and poor health than those in stable housing. The study was carried out by the Children's Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program (C-SNAP) which has the largest clinical data base on poor children under age three in America. C-SNAP has been ...
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Autistic Children Require More Money, Time Than Children With Other Chronic Diseases, Study Shows (Medical News Today)
The more than half a million U.S. children who have autism have health care needs that are more costly and time-intensive than children with other chronic ailments, according to a Maternal and Child Health Bureau study published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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Baby P council faces fresh probe into ANOTHER abused child (Daily Mail)
A second child in Haringey has been seriously harmed in another suspected case of abuse, it has been reported.
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County schedules health care clinics for December (The Hanford Sentinel)
Children's Services Immunization and lead screening clinics. Bring your records with you. Duplicates will cost $2 each. The Health Department advises all families who have a private physician to remain under his care. Immunizations are $5 per child/$10 per family or Medi-Cal for children and adolescents 0 to18 years of age. Fingerstick lead screenings are available for children 1 to 5 years of ...
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United Way profile: Partnership aims to improve mental health of children (The Appleton Post-Crescent)
Health care providers envision the newly established Fox Valley Childrens Mental Health Center on the Goodwill Industries campus in Menasha as a place that will help treat the whole child.
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Health Needs of Autistic Children Often Unmet (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
MONDAY, Dec. 1 (Health Day News) -- Parents of autistic children are more likely to see their sons or daughter's special health needs go unmet, a new government report shows.
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NSPCC Child's Voice Appeal Gets Extra Christmas Push From Microsoft (Medical News Today)
The NSPCC and Microsoft today announce a Christmas initiative to give the NSPCC's Child's Voice Appeal an extra fundraising push to increase the number of calls that can be answered by ChildLine and the NSPCC Helpline. From today until the New Year, 15% of Microsoft Windows Vista or Office 2007 sales purchased through the Microsoft Store (http://www.microsoft.
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Baby P: Report into death revealed child protection failings on every page (Daily Telegraph)
A report into the death of Baby P showed that inspectors found failings in almost every area of Haringey's child protection services that they examined.
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Baby P: System of child abuse investigations must be reformed says Ofsted (Daily Telegraph)
The case of Baby P means the system of investigating the most serious incidents of child abuse must be reformed according to Ofsted.
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Child poverty on the rise (Mississauga News)
One in five children are living in poverty in Mississauga. Meanwhile, child poverty has reached epidemic levels in suburbs across the Greater Toronto Area, according to a new report being released today by the Children's Aid Society of Toronto.
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