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Study finds correlations between seasonal ambient air pollutants and pregnancy loss in Mongolia

Burning coal for domestic heating may contribute to early fetal death according to a new study by experts from The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - the coldest capital city in the world.

25 Apr 2014

LA BioMed researcher wins Ray E. Helfer Award for contributions to detection, prevention of child abuse

Carol D. Berkowitz, MD, a Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute lead researcher, was recently honored for her distinguished contributions to the detection and prevention of child abuse and neglect by the Ray E. Helfer Society, a national organization of physicians devoted to the problem of maltreated children.

25 Apr 2014

Study shows effect of whooping cough vaccination on Bordetella pertussis bacteria

The most comprehensive study to date of the family of bacteria that causes whooping cough points to more effective vaccine strategies and reveals surprising findings about the bacteria's origin and evolution. The new results could alter public health strategies to control this respiratory disease, which kills 195,000 children worldwide each year.

25 Apr 2014

Biogen Idec's revenue increases 51% to $2.1 billion in first quarter 2014

Biogen Idec Inc. today reported first quarter 2014 results, including revenue of $2.1 billion, a 51% increase compared to the first quarter of 2013.

23 Apr 2014

Courtagen collaborates with CCMC to identify alterations in genes associated with ASD

Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc., an innovative molecular information company, announced today a collaboration with Connecticut Children's Medical Center to utilize Courtagen's sophisticated Next Generation Sequencing assays to help identify and characterize alterations found in genes associated with ASD.

23 Apr 2014

91% of Americans know genetic information has important utility in managing health

23andMe, the leading personal genetics company, is celebrating National DNA Day by taking an in-depth look at what Americans know about their DNA and how genetics play a role in our everyday lives. The survey found that 91 percent of Americans know that their genetic information has important utility in managing their health.

23 Apr 2014

New multi-disciplinary project to examine what works best for abused children

University of York researchers are launching a new multi-disciplinary project to examine what works best for abused or neglected children - going into care or staying at home with support.

23 Apr 2014

7 in 10 Americans support mandated coverage of birth control medications, shows survey

Nearly 7 in 10 Americans support mandated coverage of birth control medications, according to a new national survey by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System.

23 Apr 2014

Inconsistent insurance coverage limits healthcare availability for young adults

Perhaps due to lack of or inconsistent insurance coverage, young adults age 18 to 25 tend to go to the doctor's office less often than children or adolescents, yet have higher rates of emergency room use, finds a study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

23 Apr 2014

Viewpoints: The case against Jenny Mccarthy's vaccine stand; apathy on HIV; defeating Alzheimer's

What do you call someone who sows misinformation, stokes fear, abets behavior that endangers people's health, extracts enormous visibility from doing so and then says the equivalent of "Who? Me?" I'm not aware of any common noun for a bad actor of this sort. But there's a proper noun: Jenny McCarthy (Frank Bruni, 4/21).

23 Apr 2014

State highlights: Tenn. may send addicted moms to jail; Hawaii autism coverage; Florida medical marijuana

Pregnant women addicted to illegal narcotics or prescription pain pills could soon be jailed in Tennessee under a bill awaiting the governor's signature.

23 Apr 2014

Study calls for more access to on-site athletic trainers to properly assess injuries

Basketball is a popular high school sport in the United States with 1 million participants annually. A recently published study by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital is the first to compare and describe the occurrence and distribution patterns of basketball-related injuries treated in emergency departments and the high school athletic training setting among adolescents and teens.

23 Apr 2014

Johns Hopkins scientists find a way to prevent atherosclerosis

Working with mice and rabbits, Johns Hopkins scientists have found a way to block abnormal cholesterol production, transport and breakdown, successfully preventing the development of atherosclerosis, the main cause of heart attacks and strokes and the number-one cause of death among humans. The condition develops when fat builds inside blood vessels over time and renders them stiff, narrowed and hardened, greatly reducing their ability to feed oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle and the brain.

23 Apr 2014

21 European cities emerge as final contenders in Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Challenge

Bloomberg Philanthropies today revealed the 21 European cities that have emerged as final contenders in its 2013-2014 Mayors Challenge, a competition to inspire cities to generate innovative ideas that solve major challenges and improve city life, and that ultimately can spread to other cities.

23 Apr 2014

Biting into whole foods can make children rowdy

There's a new secret to get your child to behave at the dinner table-cut up their food and they'll relax. A new Cornell study published in Eating Behaviors, found that when 6-10 year old children ate foods they had to bite with their front teeth- such as drumsticks, whole apples, or corn on the cob- they were rowdier than when these foods had been cut.

23 Apr 2014

New FDA-approved device reduces seizures in patients with medication-resistant epilepsy

A recently FDA-approved device has been shown to reduce seizures in patients with medication-resistant epilepsy by as much as 50 percent. When coupled with an innovative electrode placement planning system developed by physicians at Rush, the device facilitated the complete elimination of seizures in nearly half of the implanted Rush patients enrolled in the decade-long clinical trials.

23 Apr 2014

New computational tool identifies undiagnosed illnesses and unknown gene mutations

23 Apr 2014

Older parents are more likely to have child with autism spectrum disorder, says study

Older parents are more likely to have a child who develops an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) than are younger parents. A recent study from researchers from the Drexel University School of Public Health in Philadelphia and Karolinska Institute in Sweden provides more insight into how the risk associated with parental age varies between mothers' and fathers' ages, and found that the risk of having a child with both ASD and intellectual disability is larger for older parents.

22 Apr 2014

University of Utah software successfully identifies diseases with unknown gene mutations in three separate cases

A computational tool developed at the University of Utah (U of U) has successfully identified diseases with unknown gene mutations in three separate cases, U of U researchers and their colleagues report in a new study in The American Journal of Human Genetics. The software, Phevor (Phenotype Driven Variant Ontological Re-ranking tool), identifies undiagnosed illnesses and unknown gene mutations by analyzing the exomes, or areas of DNA where proteins that code for genes are made, in individual patients and small families.

22 Apr 2014

Pediatric viral respiratory tract infection often complicated by bacterial sinusitis

Nearly 1 in 10 cases of viral upper respiratory tract infections in infants and young children is complicated by acute bacterial sinusitis, often in conjunction with acute otitis media, a longitudinal cohort study has found.

22 Apr 2014

Children News and Research

Study finds correlations between seasonal ambient air pollutants and pregnancy loss in Mongolia

LA BioMed researcher wins Ray E. Helfer Award for contributions to detection, prevention of child abuse

Study shows effect of whooping cough vaccination on Bordetella pertussis bacteria

Biogen Idec's revenue increases 51% to $2.1 billion in first quarter 2014

Courtagen collaborates with CCMC to identify alterations in genes associated with ASD

91% of Americans know genetic information has important utility in managing health

New multi-disciplinary project to examine what works best for abused children

7 in 10 Americans support mandated coverage of birth control medications, shows survey

Inconsistent insurance coverage limits healthcare availability for young adults

Viewpoints: The case against Jenny Mccarthy's vaccine stand; apathy on HIV; defeating Alzheimer's

State highlights: Tenn. may send addicted moms to jail; Hawaii autism coverage; Florida medical marijuana

Study calls for more access to on-site athletic trainers to properly assess injuries

Johns Hopkins scientists find a way to prevent atherosclerosis

21 European cities emerge as final contenders in Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Challenge

Biting into whole foods can make children rowdy

New FDA-approved device reduces seizures in patients with medication-resistant epilepsy

New computational tool identifies undiagnosed illnesses and unknown gene mutations

Older parents are more likely to have child with autism spectrum disorder, says study

University of Utah software successfully identifies diseases with unknown gene mutations in three separate cases

Pediatric viral respiratory tract infection often complicated by bacterial sinusitis

Event guide: 4th Extra-Hepatic Lipid-Based Nanoparticles Delivery Summit eBook

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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