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New National Children’s Hospital to cost more than 1.43 billion euro

The cost of the new National Children’s Hospital will exceed 1.43 billion euro, an Oireachtas committee has heard. National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) chief officer Derek Gunning told the Health Committee the total cost of the ...

05 Oct 2022 at 15:00

Audit finds variation in children’s allergy services across the UK

More must be done to standardise care for children with allergies around the UK, a new study suggests. Researchers said there needs to be a “national standard” of care to ensure “consistent and safe service provision”. It comes after a new ...

03 Aug 2022 at 10:51

UK medics fly to Ukraine border to evacuate 21 children with cancer

A team of medics from Southampton has flown out to the Poland-Ukraine border to evacuate 21 children suffering from cancer. The youngsters are being brought to England for treatment after they left Ukraine where they were all being ...

14 Mar 2022 at 14:55

Children’s hospitals in ‘Super Saturday’ drive to deal with pandemic backlogs

NHS children’s hospitals are holding hundreds of appointments at extra clinics on Saturday to help deal with record backlogs caused by the pandemic. The so-called “Super Saturday” drive is part of the National Paediatric ...

05 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Baby boys who spend longer watching TV ‘more likely to be diagnosed with autism’

One-year-old boys who watched TV daily were more likely to be diagnosed with autism by the time they turned three, a new study suggests. Researchers in Japan found that baby boys who spent up to an hour watching the ...

31 Jan 2022 at 19:57

Majority of children under five not meeting screen-time guidelines, study says

The majority of children aged five and younger are not meeting screen-time guidelines, new worldwide analysis suggests. According to the study, only a quarter of children under two, and one in three aged two to ...

14 Feb 2022 at 17:26

Health

Thuds punctuate family life for mum who fears her 3 year old son will snap his neck headbutting walls as he cannot feel pain

Thuds like a heaving bass punctuate family life for a devoted mum who is terrified her three-year-old son will snap his neck at any second as he headbutts walls because of a rare condition which means he ...

22 Aug 2022 at 08:29

Doctors urge Government to target high-sugar baby food

Doctors are calling on the Government to crack down on high-sugar baby and toddler food pouches, branding the lack of nutritional guidance for infant products a “national disgrace”. The Royal College of ...

27 Dec 2022 at 10:02

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Proportion of infants admitted to hospital increased with Omicron, data suggests

The proportion of children under one being admitted to hospital has increased with the Omicron coronavirus wave, but they are not particularly sick, scientists have said. The average length of stay is ...

14 Jan 2022 at 14:55

Climate change’s adverse effects on health starts in the womb, studies find

Rising temperatures around the world as a result of climate change are having a devastating effect on foetuses, babies and infants, studies have found. Scientists from six different studies ...

15 Jan 2022 at 07:55

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Vulnerable children facing long waits for Occupational Therapy assessment

Serious concerns have been raised about "significant delays" surrounding access to Paediatric Occupational Therapy. In response to queries raised by Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan (SDLP), the ...

09 May 2023 at 16:33

‘Worrying’ rise in vaping among teenagers and young adults, data suggests

More people aged 16 to 24 in Britain are using e-cigarettes – with a sharp rise among young women – which experts have called “worrying”. It comes as the number of people smoking ...

05 Sept 2023 at 16:01

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