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No-cost preventive services are now in jeopardy. Here’s what you need to know.

When a federal judge in Texas declared unconstitutional a popular part of the Affordable Care Act that ensures no-cost preventive care for certain services, such as screening exams for conditions such as diabetes, hepatitis, and certain cancers, it left a lot of people with a lot of questions.

7 Apr 2023

Thoracic spine pain prevalent among adolescents spending more time looking at screens

Thanks to the popularization of smartphones and tablets, and the multiplication of video channels, computer games and educational apps, children and adolescents are spending more and more time looking at screens, usually with bad posture, which can cause back pain, among other problems.

7 Apr 2023

Specific proteins in the blood may help predict which COVID-19 patients may become critically ill

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified specific proteins that may help predict which COVID-19 patients may need to be placed on ventilators to breathe and which are most likely to die of the virus.

6 Apr 2023

Prevalence of long-COVID among English schoolchildren: Study reveals wide-ranging impacts on health and wellbeing

Scientists have estimated the prevalence of post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) conditions among schoolchildren in England. They have also assessed the presence of persisting symptoms among schoolchildren with or without a history of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.

6 Apr 2023

Children News and Research

No-cost preventive services are now in jeopardy. Here’s what you need to know.

Thoracic spine pain prevalent among adolescents spending more time looking at screens

Specific proteins in the blood may help predict which COVID-19 patients may become critically ill

Prevalence of long-COVID among English schoolchildren: Study reveals wide-ranging impacts on health and wellbeing

Case study shows how COVID-19 breached the placenta and caused brain damage in the baby

Experts urge the reduction of added sugars to around six teaspoons a day

The economic burden of RSV infections in low and middle-income countries

Pathophysiology, comorbidities, and interventions related to childhood obesity

Researchers discover and characterize a novel protein involved in tumor suppression mechanism

New microfluidic technology enables reliable selection of high-quality sperm for IVF success

World Health Day: Giving Universal Health Coverage a Platform

How does increased family mealtime duration affect children's fruit and vegetable intake?

Using brain organoids to test gene therapies for a rare disease in children

Childhood cancer survivors maintaining a healthy lifestyle may have lower risk of mortality

Complex assembly process involved in DNA virus replication revealed

Promising new combination of drugs identified to treat juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia

Exposure therapy could be a promising treatment for adolescents with eating disorders

Key molecular pathway for organ damage in COVID patients discovered

Study reveals the potential cost savings of a therapy for babies displaying early signs of autism

St. Jude computational biologists characterize the full spectrum of oncogenic fusions in pediatric cancer

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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