Blogs Posts in Health and Growth category; 91 blog posts

Health officials urge more Americans than ever to get flu sh...

More Americans than ever before are being urged to get their annual flu vaccination.A panel of leading health experts gathered Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., to endorse the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest recomme [...]

Posted On : Sep, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

Widespread vitamin D deficiency poses risk-US study

Many young children do not get enough vitamin D, an often invisible deficiency that can show up later as broken bones or a weakened immune system prone to disease, researchers said on Monday. Two out of five U.S. children aged 8 months to [...]

Posted On : Jun, 03 2008 | Comments : 0

India children's health 'ignored'

More than half of Indian children under the age of five do not get the health care they need, according to a report by Save the Children. It ranks India alongside Ghana when it comes to providing basic health care to its children under fi [...]

Posted On : May, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Rise in life expectancy not for all groups

A long, steady rise in life expectancy in the United States apparently isn't being shared by everyone, and hasn't been for years, according to a new study. While the overall life expectancy of Americans increased by about seven years betwe [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2008 | Comments : 0

Cynthia Nixon goes public with breast cancer battle

Cynthia Nixon has joined forces with the breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure and is going public with her own battle with breast cancer. Nixon, who is reprising her role as Miranda in HBO's "Sex and the City" i [...]

Posted On : Apr, 17 2008 | Comments : 0

The Endocrine System

Hormones! How can something so small have such a big impact?$HOME$ They dramatically affect your health, attitude, growth and development, energy, your sense of security and your feeling of well being. And, just like a garden needs fe [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2008 | Comments : 0

Helping teens make most of summer can be a chore

The azaleas are beginning to bloom, summer clothes are showing up in stores, and Easter is right around the corner. It's almost spring, but some working moms aren't thinking about gardening or shopping or dyeing eggs. No, it's time for the [...]