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TGen and ASU partner with Phoenix Children’s and Cincinnati Children’s to better understand NAFLD

The prevalence of nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, NAFLD, is rising in American children, with kids of Latino ancestry being hit disproportionately hard by the disease.

28 Sep 2022

Live imaging and cellular barcoding reveal how new stem cells are vetted for quality

Using live imaging and cellular barcoding, researchers in the Stem Cell Program at Boston Children's Hospital have glimpsed how new stem cells - in this case, blood stem cells - are vetted for quality soon after they're born.

28 Sep 2022

Montana health officials aim to boost oversight of nonprofit hospitals’ giving

Montana health officials are proposing to oversee and set standards for the charitable contributions that nonprofit hospitals make in their communities each year to justify their access to millions of dollars in tax exemptions.

28 Sep 2022

Wastewater epidemiology can guide local clinical decisions on circulating viruses

The findings of a new study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server depicted that wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) can provide information on the circulating respiratory viruses in a community. As well as saving time and money, this method may assist in appropriate clinical decision-making, behavior modification, and public health interventions.

28 Sep 2022

Food, vaccines, bacteria, and viruses may all prime our immune system to attack SARS-CoV-2

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causal agent of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, primarily causes mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illness. However, some individuals with COVID-19 develop severe infections and require hospital admission.

27 Sep 2022

Stanford Medicine scientists receive $10 million for research on sleep and autism

A group of Stanford Medicine scientists have been awarded approximately $10 million from the National Institutes of Health's Autism Centers of Excellence program.

27 Sep 2022

Report: Less than half of children with sickle cell anemia received recommended screening and treatment

In 2019, less than half of children aged 2–16 years with sickle cell anemia received the recommended screening for stroke, a common complication of the disease, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report.

27 Sep 2022

Prenatal exposure to high-dose folic acid linked to cancer risk in children of mothers with epilepsy

High-dose folic acid is protective against congenital malformations if the mother is at particular risk of having a child with congenital malformations.

27 Sep 2022

What is the vaccine efficacy of repeated influenza vaccinations?

In a new study, researchers calculated the decrease in vaccine effectiveness due to repeated influenza vaccinations.

27 Sep 2022

Association between COVID-19 vaccination and increase in menstrual cycle length confirmed

A large international study has confirmed the findings of a previous U.S. study that linked COVID-19 vaccination with an average increase in menstrual cycle length of less than one day.

27 Sep 2022

SARS-CoV-2 infections linked to increased incidence of new-onset type 1 diabetes in pediatric populations

A new study explored the association of SARS-CoV-2 infection with increased new-onset type 1 diabetes incidences among COVID-19 patients 18 years old and younger.

27 Sep 2022

What is the association between COVID-19 and type 1 diabetes?

In a new study, researchers assessed the relationship between incident type 1 diabetes and recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection.

27 Sep 2022

Britain’s hard lessons from handing elder care over to private equity

A little over a decade ago, Four Seasons Health Care was among the largest long-term care home companies in Britain, operating 500 sites with 20,000 residents and more than 60 specialist centers.

27 Sep 2022

At this recovery center, police cope with the mental health costs of the job

Ken Beyer can't think of a day in the past few months when his phone didn't flutter with calls, text messages, and emails from a police department, a sheriff's office, or a fire station seeking help for an employee.

27 Sep 2022

Study: Heat-related mortality is an issue across Washington state

Heat-related deaths are an issue across Washington state, and they occur even in regions that typically have milder climates, according to a University of Washington study published Aug. 30 in the journal Atmosphere.

27 Sep 2022

COVID-19 can cause long-term lung damage to children and teens

In a recent study published in the Radiology journal, researchers in Germany assessed the pulmonary dysfunction observed after pediatric coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

27 Sep 2022

New research model enables scientists to test therapeutics for rare neurodegenerative diseases

For the first time, scientists will be able to test therapeutics for a group of rare neurodegenerative diseases that affect infants and young children thanks to a new research model created by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

26 Sep 2022

Successful implementation strategy to scale-up PEWS for children with cancer

Pediatric Early Warning Systems (PEWS) - bedside tools used by nurses to assess the health of hospitalized children and identify urgent medical issues - are not widely used in resource-limited hospitals, in part due to challenges with implementation.

26 Sep 2022

Mortality prediction model for dementia patients may help guide decisions on end-of-life care

A mortality prediction model for older adults with dementia may help clinicians frame discussions with patients and their families relating to end-of-life care, such as at-home support and nursing homes.

26 Sep 2022

New discovery changes the understanding of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by a genetic mutation and affects one in every 5,000 boys born. Because the affected gene is on the X chromosome, girls are carriers of the mutant gene but develop the disease only very rarely (one in about 50 million).

26 Sep 2022

Children News and Research

TGen and ASU partner with Phoenix Children’s and Cincinnati Children’s to better understand NAFLD

Live imaging and cellular barcoding reveal how new stem cells are vetted for quality

Montana health officials aim to boost oversight of nonprofit hospitals’ giving

Wastewater epidemiology can guide local clinical decisions on circulating viruses

Food, vaccines, bacteria, and viruses may all prime our immune system to attack SARS-CoV-2

Stanford Medicine scientists receive $10 million for research on sleep and autism

Report: Less than half of children with sickle cell anemia received recommended screening and treatment

Prenatal exposure to high-dose folic acid linked to cancer risk in children of mothers with epilepsy

What is the vaccine efficacy of repeated influenza vaccinations?

Association between COVID-19 vaccination and increase in menstrual cycle length confirmed

SARS-CoV-2 infections linked to increased incidence of new-onset type 1 diabetes in pediatric populations

What is the association between COVID-19 and type 1 diabetes?

Britain’s hard lessons from handing elder care over to private equity

At this recovery center, police cope with the mental health costs of the job

Study: Heat-related mortality is an issue across Washington state

COVID-19 can cause long-term lung damage to children and teens

New research model enables scientists to test therapeutics for rare neurodegenerative diseases

Successful implementation strategy to scale-up PEWS for children with cancer

Mortality prediction model for dementia patients may help guide decisions on end-of-life care

New discovery changes the understanding of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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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