Docs: Home care OK for kids' pneumonia
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Children with severe pneumonia can be treated just as effectively at home as in a hospital, according to new research. Doctors in Pakistan found that children taking antibiotics at home were as likely to survive serious pneumonia as those treated in hospitals. The study was published Friday in the British medical journal, The Lancet.
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDayNews) -- The nation's leading group of pediatricians has strengthened its stand on the dangers that air pollution poses to children, and offers new recommendations on how to help solve the problem.
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Health chiefs are considering a new jab to protect babies against bacterial meningitis, septicaemia and pneumonia.
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Germs found in dental plaque can make their way into the lungs and cause potentially fatal pneumonia in elderly nursing home patients, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Over-the-counter cough and cold medications should not be used in children younger than age 6, a special panel of federal advisers concluded yesterday after an exhaustive review of the products' safety and effectiveness.
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A spoonful of honey might quiet a childâs cough more effectively and safely than the most common over-the-counter cough medicine.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel will recommend on Friday if over-the-counter cough and cold medicines should still be sold for children up to age 12 amid complaints the drugs can be dangerous and do not work.
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NEW YORK  - Kids who need their tonsils  removed can be in and out of the hospital on the same day, in  many cases, Spanish doctors report.
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Germs found in dental plaque can  make their way into the lungs and cause potentially fatal  pneumonia in elderly nursing home patients, U.S. researchers  reported on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - The supply issues with Prevnar, a vaccine that protects kids from bacterial infections, have been resolved and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other groups are now recommending that doctors resume giving the
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For parents worried about how to treat children's colds now that some medicines have been called into question, the answer may be a dose of salt water.
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On a recent day at the busy Walnut Street Dental Clinic in Hagerstown, Md., Ilaya Rajagopal treated an 18-month-old who had six cavities and lectured the child's mother, in his gentle way, about the damage caused by putting a baby to bed with a bottle.
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Telling parents to wait 48 hours before   filling a prescription for antibiotics so they can see if their   child's ear infection clears up on its own can help curb   overuse of the drugs, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Picture a parent anxiously checking a sick child's thermometer or hauling the kids to the doctor's office and the image that usually comes to mind is of mom. But with rising numbers of stay-at-home dads, father-only households, shared-custody arrangements and other cultural changes, men are increasingly getting involved in their children's health care.
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It can cover at-home care, too -- not just nursing-home care.
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TUESDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- At your child&#39;s next visit to the pediatrician, the usual checklist of questions might include a new one: Do you have a gun in the house?
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U.S. health regulators said on  Friday they have been reviewing the safety of over-the-counter  children's cough and cold medications, especially for those  under age 2.