Advances in medicine – new treatments, cures, vaccines and medicines – are driven by research involving humans. But when it comes to medical research that requires children to be involved, researchers often struggle to find participants.
The reason? Many parents are often unwilling to allow their children to take part in medical research, fearing that they may be harmed or used as “guinea pigs,” according to a report released today by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health. [continue reading…]
Published: April 23, 2008
Today’s regulations do not fully ensure that children receive the education to which they are entitled by law, according to Ragnhild Collin-Hansen. She has analysed the law that regulates the responsibility of schools, parents and child welfare authorities, and thinks that the system can turn children into losers. [continue reading…]
Published: April 16, 2008
Because children often witness spousal abuse, pediatricians have two reasons to routinely screen their patients’ mothers or other caregivers for signs of such physical and emotional domestic violence, a study from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center suggests.Brief screening is not only a step to protecting a spouse or a partner, it also can reduce the very real collateral health risks experienced by children who see or hear such abuse, the investigators say. Children who live in homes where spousal abuse occurs are at high risk of being abused themselves, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. [continue reading…]
Published: April 14, 2008
