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Mount Sinai awarded $10 million grant to explore cellular, molecular mechanisms of GVHD

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded a $10 million from the National Cancer Institute to explore the cellular and molecular mechanisms of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a common side effect that occurs after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT), and to develop novel therapeutic strategies for BMT patients with cancer that begin in the cells of blood-forming tissue or hematologic malignancies.

13 Oct 2016

Penn researchers receive $5.2 million NIH grant to study mechanisms that promote lung regeneration

Penn Medicine researchers, along with colleagues at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Boston University, have received a $5.2 million, seven-year grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms that promote lung regeneration.

13 Oct 2016

U of A researchers to study origin of Leigh's disease

Researchers at the University of Arkansas and their collaborators will use a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the origin of Leigh's disease, a rare and incurable disease that affects the central nervous system.

13 Oct 2016

Researchers to evaluate new treatment strategy for treating infants with perinatal brain injury

Perinatal brain injury often results in severe developmental disabilities, including neurodevelopmental delay and cerebral palsy.

13 Oct 2016

Sleep loss increases dietary intake of preschoolers, study finds

The preschoolers, all regular afternoon nappers, were deprived of roughly three hours of sleep on one day - they had no afternoon nap and were kept up for about two hours past their normal bedtime - before being awakened at their regularly scheduled times the next morning.

13 Oct 2016

UTA investigators use advanced computational approach to assess learning difficulties in children

University of Texas at Arlington researchers are using an advanced computational approach or artificial intelligence to help experts assess learning difficulties in children very early in their lives.

13 Oct 2016

Study links repeated SSRIs during pregnancy to childhood language disorders

The use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors at least twice during pregnancy may be associated with an increased risk of offspring developing a speech and/or language disorder, according to a study from Columbia University.

13 Oct 2016

Does music improve child brain development?

We are a research group at the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California. In 2012, we began a five-year longitudinal study in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and their Youth Orchestra program at the Heart of Los Angeles (YOLA at HOLA).

13 Oct 2016

Researchers develop new technique to image functional activity in the brains of fetuses

NIBIB-funded researchers at the University of Washington have pioneered an approach to image functional activity in the brains of individual fetuses, allowing a better look at how functional networks within the brain develop.

13 Oct 2016

Making parents healthier before conception could be key to preventing obesity in future generations

The key to preventing obesity in future generations is to make their parents healthier before they conceive, leading health researchers suggest.

13 Oct 2016

Patients with hypothyroidism have nagging symptoms despite normal TSH tests, medication use

About 15 percent of the 10-12 million people in the U.S. with hypothyroidism, or an underactive thyroid, continue to feel sick despite following the standard of care recommended by the American Thyroid Association.

13 Oct 2016

Genome engineering-based methods pave way for new treatment of patients with sickle cell disease

A team of physicians and laboratory scientists has taken a key step toward a cure for sickle cell disease, using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to fix the mutated gene responsible for the disease in stem cells from the blood of affected patients.

12 Oct 2016

Study suggests possibility for small molecule drug/antibody combinatorial therapy to treat neuroblastoma

A study by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles sheds further light on the role of the cytokine TGFβ1 in the growth of neuroblastoma, and suggests the possibility for a small molecule drug/antibody combinatorial therapy to treat this cancer.

12 Oct 2016

Study identifies mechanistic link between maternal obesity and childhood hypertension

Exposure of babies to high levels of the 'fullness' hormone, leptin, in the womb irreversibly activates receptors in the brain that regulate blood pressure, according to a new study by researchers from King's College London, part-funded by the British Heart Foundation.

12 Oct 2016

Warm childhood environments linked to secure marriages in late life

Growing up in a warm family environment in childhood is associated with feeling more secure in romantic relationships in one's 80s, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

12 Oct 2016

Children who experience family, environmental stressors more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD

Children who experience family and environmental stressors, and traumatic experiences, such as poverty, mental illness and exposure to violence, are more likely to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to new research by investigators at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, titled "Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and ADHD Diagnosis and Severity," published in Academic Pediatrics.

12 Oct 2016

Excessive televiewing in early childhood can lead to risk of social impairment during adolescence

Results of new study led by Linda Pagani, professor at the University of Montreal's School of Psychoeducation, show that young children who watch too much television are at risk of victimization and social isolation and adopting violent and antisocial behaviour toward other students at age 13.

12 Oct 2016

Novel method can quantify progression of NAFLD to more advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis

Combining multiple non-invasive measures, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe a novel method to quantify the progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) to its more dangerous and deadly states — advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis.

12 Oct 2016

Study finds strong link between childhood adversity and bipolar disorder diagnosis

A University of Manchester study which looked at more than thirty years of research into bipolar, found that people with the disorder are 2.63 times more likely to have suffered emotional, physical or sexual abuse as children than the general population.

12 Oct 2016

High-protein diet eliminates metabolic benefits of weight loss in obese women

Dieters sometimes consume extra protein to stave off hunger and prevent loss of muscle tissue that often comes with weight loss.

12 Oct 2016

Children News and Research

Mount Sinai awarded $10 million grant to explore cellular, molecular mechanisms of GVHD

Penn researchers receive $5.2 million NIH grant to study mechanisms that promote lung regeneration

U of A researchers to study origin of Leigh's disease

Researchers to evaluate new treatment strategy for treating infants with perinatal brain injury

Sleep loss increases dietary intake of preschoolers, study finds

UTA investigators use advanced computational approach to assess learning difficulties in children

Study links repeated SSRIs during pregnancy to childhood language disorders

Does music improve child brain development?

Researchers develop new technique to image functional activity in the brains of fetuses

Making parents healthier before conception could be key to preventing obesity in future generations

Patients with hypothyroidism have nagging symptoms despite normal TSH tests, medication use

Genome engineering-based methods pave way for new treatment of patients with sickle cell disease

Study suggests possibility for small molecule drug/antibody combinatorial therapy to treat neuroblastoma

Study identifies mechanistic link between maternal obesity and childhood hypertension

Warm childhood environments linked to secure marriages in late life

Children who experience family, environmental stressors more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD

Excessive televiewing in early childhood can lead to risk of social impairment during adolescence

Novel method can quantify progression of NAFLD to more advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis

Study finds strong link between childhood adversity and bipolar disorder diagnosis

High-protein diet eliminates metabolic benefits of weight loss in obese women

Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

A New Approach to Preventing Bladder Cancer Recurrence

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

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