 | Radiocast: Play it Safe with Children and Medicine
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
AHRQ Director Dr. Carolyn Clancy offers advice for parents regarding their child's medications, both over-the-counter remedies and prescriptions, and how they might ...
| Duration: 01:02
File Size: 964 KB |
| Feature: Weight Loss Surgery - How it Can Affect Pregnancy
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
AHRQ findings suggest that women who lose weight through surgery have lower risks of pregnancy-related diabetes and high blood pressure than women who become pregnant ...
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| Duration: 02:45
File Size: 2.52 MB |
| Feature: Many U.S. Children Lack Health Insurance
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008
A new study from AHRQ reveals more than 2 million kids in the U.S. lack health insurance coverage even though at least one parent is insured.
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| Duration: 02:50
File Size: 2.59 MB |
| Radiocast: Health Insurance Gaps for America's Kids
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
More than 2 million kids in the U.S. lack health insurance coverage even though at least one of their parents is insured.
| Duration: 01:02
File Size: 964 KB |
| Feature: More U.S. Children Covered by Dental Insurance
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
More U.S. kids are covered by dental insurance thanks to government programs.
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| Duration: 00:40
File Size: 627 KB |
| Feature: Battling Childhood Obesity - Research Shows Some Programs Work
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Research shows about 17 percent of U.S. children and teens are obese. Behavioral management programs may be one way that school-age kids and teens can lose weight.
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| Duration: 03:08
File Size: 2.86 MB |
| Radiocast: Fighting Childhood Obesity
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Parents should continue to encourage their kids to adopt healthy habits such as getting daily exercise and eating a healthy diet to help reduce the risks of obesity.
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| Duration: 01:02
File Size: 964 KB |
| Feature: Lower-Income Kids Twice as Likely to Use ER
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Children from poor families are almost twice as likely as higher-income kids to use hospital emergency rooms.
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| Duration: 00:49
File Size: 771 KB |
| Radiocast: Hearing Screening for Newborns
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Since half of infants with hearing loss have no identifiable risk factors, screening at birth for hearing loss should be a part of every newborn's health care.
| Duration: 01:01
File Size: 963 KB |
| Feature: New Report Details Child Abuse in the U.S. and the Cost
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The U.S. spent almost $100 million in 2005 on hospital care for children who suffered abuse or neglect.
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| Duration: 00:38
File Size: 608 KB |
| Feature: More Babies Being Delivered by C-section
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Researchers say the rate for delivering babies via C-section is trending upwards.
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| Duration: 00:41
File Size: 648 KB |
| Feature: Less Than Half of All Children in the U.S. Visited a Dentist in 2004
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Fewer than half of all American adolescents only 45 percent visit a dentist each year, according to the latest AHRQ data.
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| Duration: 00:45
File Size: 70 KB |
| Radiocast: Health Literacy
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Establishing good communication with your doctor goes a long way to promoting your health literacy and your health.
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| Duration: 02:00
File Size: 1.84 MB |
| Feature: Report on the Cost of Having a Baby
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
From prenatal care to delivery day, the average cost of having a baby nowadays is about $7,600.
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| Duration: 00:51
File Size: 797 KB |
| Feature: Cutting-Edge Project Allows Sick Kids to Get a Long-Distance Diagnosis
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
A project designed at the University of Rochester Medical Center used technology to bring the doctor’s office to child care centers and schools.
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| Duration: 04:17
File Size: 3.93 MB |
| Radiocast: Managing Asthma
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Asthma rates are on the rise, but there are ways to manage this chronic lung condition.
| Duration: 02:00
File Size: 938 KB |
| Radiocast: Kids and Cancer
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
A new AHRQ analysis shows hospital admissions for cancer patients under the age of 18 increased more than 80 percent from 2000 to 2005.
| Duration: 02:00
File Size: 1.83 MB |
| Feature: Hospitalizations for Kids with Cancer
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
A new AHRQ analysis shows hospital admissions for cancer patients under the age of 18 increased more than 80 percent from 2000 to 2005.
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| Duration: 01:00
File Size: 949 KB |
| Radiocast: Asthma and Minorities
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Asthma is now the most common chronic childhood disease, but African American and Latino children are more affected than others.
| Duration: 01:58
File Size: 1.81 MB |
| Feature: Daily Antibiotics to Prevent Urinary Tract Infections May Be Harmful for Your Child
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
The American Academy of Pediatrics currently recommends daily antibiotics for children who have urine reflux from their bladder, but a new study found that the practice ...
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| Duration: 05:45
File Size: 5.26 MB |
| Radiocast: Urinary Tract Infections in Children
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
A recent study found that daily preventive antibiotic use by children to prevent urinary tract infections was not effective and significantly increases the likelihood ...
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| Duration: 02:01
File Size: 1.85 MB |
| Clinician Insider -- IT in Pediatric Emergency Departments
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
The hustling, bustling environment of a pediatric emergency department – where split-second decisions can mean life or death – might be the last place you’d expect to ...
| Duration: 11:11
File Size: 10.2 MB |
| Radiocast: Medication Errors and Children
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007
AHRQ Director, Dr. Carolyn Clancy discusses ways you can keep your child safe from drug or other medical errors.
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| Duration: 02:00
File Size: 1.84 MB |
| Radiocast: Secondhand Smoke and Children
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
The 2006 Surgeon General’s Report concluded that secondhand smoke is particularly hazardous to children and most of their exposure to smoke is coming at home.
| Duration: 02:00
File Size: 1.84 MB |
| Feature: News and Numbers: Cesarean births
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
News in Numbers this week reports that more than one in four newborns is now born through Cesarean section.
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| Duration: 01:01
File Size: 966 KB |
| Feature: Treating Anthrax in Children
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
A new AHRQ evidence report says that anthrax is difficult to detect and treat in children.
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| Duration: 02:18
File Size: 2.11 MB |
| Feature: Medication Errors in Hospitalized Children
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006
A new AHRQ report finds that medication errors in hospitalized kids are common. And the drugs involved in these mistakes aren’t new medications, but tend to be some of ...
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| Duration: 01:37
File Size: 1.49 MB |
| Radiocast: Kids and Medication Errors
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
AHRQ research takes a closer look at harmful medication errors on children.
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| Duration: 01:31
File Size: 1.40 MB |
| Feature: Prenatal exposure to ACE Inhibitors
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006
A new study shows that prenatal exposure to ACE inhibitors in the first trimester can cause birth defects.
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| Duration: 01:41
File Size: 1.55 MB |
| PSA -- Children Are Not Immune to Medical Errors
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Friday, April 28, 2006
Steps for preventing medication errors which occur three times as often in children as adults.
| Duration: 00:49
File Size: 774 KB |
| Feature: AHRQ News and Numbers: Dental Checkups
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Fewer than half of U.S. children age 2 to 17 usually have a dental checkup at least once a year.
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| Duration: 01:15
File Size: 1.15 MB |
| Feature: Babies Delivered by Cesarean Section at the Mother's Request
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
An evidence review looked at delivering babies by cesarean section at the mother's request.
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| Duration: 01:29
File Size: 1.36 MB |
| Feature: Children Over Prescribed Antibiotics For Sore Throats
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Linder from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
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| Duration: 04:57
File Size: 4.54 MB |
| Radiocast: Sore Throat
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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| Duration: 01:33
File Size: 1.41 MB |