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(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Children and adolescents with obstructive sleep apnea had substantial improvements in attention, anxiety and quality of life after treatment with positive airway pressure -- a nighttime therapy in which a machine delivers a stream of air through a mask into the nose.

While commonly used in adults with obstructive sleep apnea, this therapy has seldom been studied in children.

(MedPage Today) -- Nearly 4,600 children were admitted to a U.S. hospital in 2006 as a result of physical abuse and 300 died because of the abuse, researchers reported.

(St. Michael's Hospital) Up to 30 percent of patients hospitalized after a stroke develop delirium, according to a new study from St.

Michael's Hospital.

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(Nationwide Children's Hospital) It takes life-saving research and access to clinical trials to help children with cancer.

The St. Baldrick's Foundation, a volunteer-driven charity dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, awarded an infrastructure grant of $47,000 to the Biopathology Center, housed in the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

The Foundation's infrastructure grants provide institutions with resources to enable them to conduct more research and enroll more kids in ongoing clinical trials - their best hope for a cure.

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers created a drug delivery system that is able to effectively deliver a tremendous amount of chemotherapeutic drugs to prostate cancer cells.

(St. Michael's Hospital) More than two-thirds of paramedics surveyed have experienced verbal, physical or sexual abuse on the job, new research has found.

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Vaccines with broader reach might be made by stimulating specialized immune cells to recognize foreign cell membrane proteins that are shared across bacterial species, say researchers from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in a report published online today in Immunity.

The approach could be particularly beneficial in preventing infection by multi-drug resistant organisms.

St. Ann's Hospital in London opened its first clinic for stalkers Thursday, with the goal of preventing rape, sexual assaults and murder.

The clinic's opening marks a transition in the way British authorities think about stalkers.

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) Bacteria responsible for middle ear infections, pink eye and sinusitis protect themselves from further immune attack by transporting molecules meant to destroy them away from their inner membrane target, according to a study from Nationwide Children's Hospital.

The study, published in the November issue of PLoS Pathogens, is the first to describe a transporter system that bacteria use to ensure their survival.