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Prolonged breastfeeding linked to dental cavities in children

According to a latest study published last Friday in the Journal Pediatrics, children who are breastfed for over two years are more likely to develop caries or cavities.

2 Jul 2017

UAB clinical psychologist offers tips to avoid hot car deaths of children

Josh Klapow, Ph.D., clinical psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, offers ways to help parents remember that their child is in the car, avoiding the tragedy of an inadvertant hot car death.

30 Jun 2017

SmartPractice donates $50,000 to support TGen's development of liquid biopsies

In support of efforts to find better ways of diagnosing and monitoring breast cancer patients, SmartPractice today donated $50,000 to the Translational Genomics Research Institute.

30 Jun 2017

Scientists find new clues to how RSV causes disease

By age 2, most children have been infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which usually causes only mild cold symptoms. But people with weakened immune systems, such as infants and the elderly, can face serious complications, including pneumonia and -- in some cases -- death.

30 Jun 2017

Timing of mutations can have effect on health and disease

A single genetic mutation can lead to completely different diseases, depending on the time and location at which the mutation occurs.

30 Jun 2017

Study reveals link between cardiovascular risk factors and arterial distensibility in adolescence

The longitudinal study on children and adolescents conducted by the Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Turku, Finland, is unique worldwide.

30 Jun 2017

Ondek raises capital to develop new treatment for childhood allergy

Ondek, the Australian biotechnology company founded by Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall, today announced it raised A$3.59 million in equity funding from professional and high-net-worth investors to support his work to develop a new treatment for childhood allergy.

30 Jun 2017

Benefits of full breastfeeding in newborns could last through to early adulthood, research shows

Babies who are fed only breast milk for the first three months of life appear to be much more likely to maintain a healthy weight trajectory, with the benefits possibly lasting through to early adulthood, new research shows.

30 Jun 2017

Measuring set of proteins may enable earlier diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder

Measuring a set of proteins in the blood may enable earlier diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a study from the Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

30 Jun 2017

Antibiotics found to be effective for treating simple skin abscesses in adults and children

New multicenter research, which included Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators, could change treatment approaches to simple skin abscesses, infections often caused by Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria.

30 Jun 2017

UTA researchers recommend evaluation of DCD in children with autism

UTA researchers are recommending in a new study that children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder should be checked for developmental coordination disorder since the two maladies are linked.

29 Jun 2017

Study finds psychosocial risk factors, unexplained bruising in fatal or near-fatal child abuse cases

Analysis of fatal and near-fatal physical abuse cases of children under 4 years of age revealed that psychosocial risk factors in the home, such as criminal history, were present in all cases.

29 Jun 2017

FDA authorizes marketing of test to aid in diagnoses of serious cancers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today allowed marketing of ClearLLab Reagents (T1, T2, B1, B2, M), the first agency authorized test for use with flow cytometry to aid in the detection of several leukemias and lymphomas, including chronic leukemia, acute leukemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN).

29 Jun 2017

Common, inexpensive antimicrobials can help patients heal from MRSA skin abscesses

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria are resistant to multiple antibiotics and commonly cause skin infections that can lead to more serious or life-threatening infection in other parts of the body.

29 Jun 2017

Food allergies linked to higher prevalence of childhood anxiety

Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Albert Einstein College of Medicine studied the link between food allergy and childhood anxiety and depression among a sample of predominantly low socioeconomic status minority children.

29 Jun 2017

Car safety seat laws for older kids do not have much effect, study finds

Laws that require increasingly older kids to sit in car safety seats appear to have limited impact, new research has found.

29 Jun 2017

Study opens the lid on overprescribing of antibiotics for acute conjunctivitis

A new study suggests that most people with acute conjunctivitis, or pinkeye, are getting the wrong treatment.

29 Jun 2017

Novel procedure to seal off lymphatic fluid leaks improves symptoms in patients with single-ventricle disease

Focusing on a rare but devastating complication in patients with single-ventricle heart disease, a research team has revealed the role of leakage from the liver's lymphatic system, and used a novel procedure to seal off those leaks and improve symptoms in patients.

29 Jun 2017

Safe under the ACA, patients with preexisting conditions now fear bias

Cheasanee Huette, a 20-year-old college student in Northern California, is worried. Two years ago, knowing she was protected by the Affordable Care Act's guarantees of coverage for preexisting conditions, she decided to find out if she carried the same genetic mutation that eventually killed her mother.

29 Jun 2017

Study sheds light on how key protein allows hearing to work

Although the basic outlines of human hearing have been known for years – sensory cells in the inner ear turn sound waves into the electrical signals that the brain understands as sound – the molecular details have remained elusive.

29 Jun 2017