Moms pre-chewing food gave HIV to kids
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For the first time, health officials report that the AIDS virus can be spread by a mother pre-chewing her infant's food, a practice mainly seen in poor, developing countries.
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SUNDAY, Aug. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- Here's some back-to-school meal and snacking advice to help protect your children from tooth decay -- the single most common chronic childhood illness, affecting more than half of children aged 5 to 17 years.
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NEWS: In 2002, weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top US health officials were warned that research about the drug, nevirapine, was flawed
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Children with HIV in third world countries have a new hope today. In clinical tests, the use of an inexpensive antibiotic, co-trimoxazole, drastically reduced the number of deaths in children with HIV by preventing secondary infections like pneumonia.
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HIV-positive parents limit kisses with their children amid fears of passing on the virus, a US study suggests.
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Spoon-feeding babies pureed food could cause health problems later in life a Unicef childcare expert has warned.
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When Sharon Hollis was 27 she had heard of HIV and AIDS, but like most people, she thought it wouldn&#39;t happen to her. After her brother died in 1986 from HIV complications, she noticed that
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NEW YORK  - Independent of cigarette smoking, infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is associated with an elevated risk for developing lung cancer, a study shows.
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Many parents struggle to know which foods are healthy for their children, a survey shows.
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NEW YORK  - Adolescents whose parents are infected or have died from HIV/AIDS cope significantly better emotionally if they have a strong social support system in place, according to research published today in the American Journal of Public Health.
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A settlement has been reached with families of HIV-infected children in the case of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, the spokesman for Libya's Gadhafi foundation said Tuesday.
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Anne Grintjes can't even look at produce now without cringing. "I went through a grocery store the other day and I just flinched when I looked at all the greens," said Grintjes, whose 6-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter fell ill during a multi-state E. coli outbreak linked to tainted spinach. "It's hard not to, after watching your little boy struggling for his life in a hospital bed."
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WAJID, Somalia -- Hediga Mohamed made sure to tie a string of tiny wooden beads around her starving 4-month-old baby's neck for good luck when they showed up at a clinic here 15 days ago.
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An 11-year-old girl who allegedly had sex with as many as 20 people as a 16-year-old girl watched and coached her has had HIV since birth, an alderman who met with the family said Friday. Alderman Mike McGee Jr. told The Associated Press that he met with the girl Thursday and described her as distraught.
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A Minnesota mom finds a way to send surplus milk to HIV/AIDS orphans in Africa
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Food marketed to children is being criticized as high in fat and sugar.
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Food is another divide between parents and sitters.