The meningitis B jab Bexsero has been excluded from the UK’s childhood immunisation programme, but its manufacturer, Novartis, said that this is not in the best interest of people. The JCVI UK didn’t recommend the vaccine because it was not able to prove its efficiency based on the UK’s current method of evaluation. In a […]
Category: Children’s Health
Parent urged to vaccinate their teenagers against HPV
Health experts are advising parents to vaccinate their teenagers against HPV. Public health experts are hoping that parents will take advantage of the new HPV vaccine and allow their daughters to have it as it could help save their lives down the line and has been proven to possibly prevent the development of cancer. Before […]
New research shows that mums to be are working too far into their pregnancy
A recent study that has been completed in the UK has shown that mothers who work when they are eight months pregnant are doing as much harm to their babies as if they were smoking at the same stage of pregnancy. The researcher has come out of the University of Essex and it is shown […]
Flu jabs expected to be given to children starting in 2014
It is expected that after 2014, children in the UK are going to be given flu vaccinations in the winter. This is going to be given in the form of a nasal spray and it is expected that it could save around 2000 lives in the country every year. It is not the children who […]
CT scans for children should be avoided according to new study
A new study suggests that CT (computerised tomography) scans in childhood should be avoided and may contribute to the risk of leukemia or brain cancer. Nearly 190,000 medical records of children were analyzed in the study, led by a team from Newcastle University. The key results of the report did stress that the advantages outweighed […]
Babies born late could develop more health problems than previously thought
Recent research has suggested that babies who are born later are more likely to develop health problems. The recent study suggested that babies who are born after 42 weeks of pregnancy are more likely to suffer problems such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) earlier in life. Generally medical practitioners tend to induce a birth […]
It can be perfectly normal for your child to hear voices
If your child has reported hearing voices, but you can’t hear them, nor can anyone else, don’t panic; a surprising number of kids hear voices that are only audible in their own heads, and in most cases it’s nothing to worry about. Researchers in Dublin conducted a study that involved psychiatric assessment of about 2,500 […]