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Diet may hold key to disruption

By: The Guardian - Felicity Lawrence

It takes about four months to get an appointment at the dyslexia clinic at Oxford University's department of physiology. Joshua's turn has finally come — he is eight years old, clever, well-behaved and doing well, but an...

Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: cohort study

By: British Medical Journal

John J Reilly, Julie Armstrong, Ahmad R Dorosty, Pauline M Emmett, A Ness, I Rogers, Colin Steer, Andrea Sherriff

for the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children Study Team

Gates gives $750m to fight deadly childhood diseases

By: The Guardian - Sarah Boseley

Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, has given $750m, his biggest ever donation, to an alliance dedicated to ending deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases among the poorest children in the world.

School whiteboards a danger to eyesight

By: The Times

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The greatest catastrophe - Aids worst disaster in history

By: The Guardian - Rory Carroll & Sarah Boseley

The HIV/Aids pandemic is the worst catastrophe in history and is blighting childhood across the developing world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations said yesterday.

Does the lack of sleep make you fat?

By: University of Bristol

The recent rise in obesity may be partly due to the reduced amount of time we spend asleep, according to new research from the University of Bristol, UK.

An Orwellian Nightmare: Mandatory Mental Health Screening of Children

By: AWSNA publication - John W Whitehead

In embracing a major new health initiative, which is based on a report by the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, the American government has taken a giant step toward an Orwellian nightmare. The commission has recommended...