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Study suggests a potential tool to help improve fertility treatment outcomes

Screening sperm may help identify potentially harmful new genetic mutations and help fertility specialists prevent them from being passed on to offspring, shows a preliminary study published in eLife.

5 Jul 2022

Motherhood does not negatively impact a woman's chance of surviving breast cancer

Having a baby after breast cancer does not negatively impact a woman's chance of surviving the disease. A new study shows that survival is no worse in younger women, those who had not been pregnant before, and those with hormone-receptor positive breast cancer.

5 Jul 2022

Study finds four out of ten children in the US live in homes with atleast one criminal charge

Four in 10 children in the United States grow up in households in which a parent or co-residing adult faced at least one criminal charge, were convicted of a felony or spent time in prison, a University of Michigan study shows.

5 Jul 2022

Risk of eczema in babies could be lowered by taking vitamin D supplements during pregnancy

Taking Vitamin D supplements during pregnancy could substantially reduce the chances of babies up to a year old suffering from atopic eczema, according to a new study by University of Southampton researchers.

5 Jul 2022

New insights on measuring and valuing children's health-related quality of life

Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR - the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced today the publication of a series of articles providing new insights on measuring and valuing children's health-related quality of life.

5 Jul 2022

Researchers explore long-term pulmonary sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the pediatric population

Researchers described the long-term pulmonary sequelae of COVID-19 in the pediatric population.

5 Jul 2022

Yearly BMI changes of children found to be higher during the COVID-19 pandemic

Researchers assessed the body-mass index (BMI) variations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

5 Jul 2022

Crowdsourced data on overdoses pinpoints where to help

Men lined up outside the Corner of Hope, a homeless resource center, eyeing free supplies on plastic shelves inside a white van.

5 Jul 2022

How Pfizer won the pandemic, reaping outsize profit and influence

The grinding two-plus years of the pandemic have yielded outsize benefits for one company — Pfizer — making it both highly influential and hugely profitable as covid-19 continues to infect tens of thousands of people and kill hundreds each day.

5 Jul 2022

Study finds hospitalizations for COVID-19–related croup increased after the onset of the Omicron variant

Researchers assessed whether croup infections among young children in the United States were associated with the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern Omicron.

5 Jul 2022

The varying patterns of acute respiratory infection hospitalizations before and during two pandemic years

Investigators analyzed the varying pattern of respiratory viruses resulting in hospitalizations from 2012-2013 to 2021-2022 in Canada.

5 Jul 2022

Newly identified gut bacterial strains could pave the way for IBD and colon cancer prevention

Researchers have isolated five strains of gut bacteria that could pave the way for new inflammatory bowel disease treatments and potentially help prevent some forms of bowel cancer.

5 Jul 2022

Study looks at pneumococcal carriage among over 60's during COVID pandemic

In a recent article posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers in the United States analyzed the pneumococcal carriage in older adults in the Greater New Haven Area, United States (US), during the implementation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mitigation strategies.

4 Jul 2022

Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium wins £1.6m additional funding to support early-stage translational research

A new consortium involving the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has launched to enhance the research to speed up development of real-world diagnostics and treatments, funded by UK Research and Innovation Medical Research Council (UKRI MRC).

4 Jul 2022

COVID pandemic may have hidden a significant increase in child abuse, say doctors

UK doctors are concerned that the COVID pandemic may have hidden a significant increase in child maltreatment. Speaking at the United Kingdom Imaging and Oncology Congress in Liverpool, Professor Owen Arthurs (Great Ormond Street Hospital, London) called for greater resources to detect abuse, especially if future COVID waves lead to new lockdown conditions.

4 Jul 2022

Age-specific precision shielding in the pre-vaccination period of the COVID-19 pandemic

A new study has focussed on addressing whether age-specific precision shielding was achieved in the pre-vaccination period.

4 Jul 2022

Study yields surprising insights about how pre-teens feel about alcohol, tobacco and marijuana

They may only be in 4th or 5th grade, but 1 in 10 pre-teen children already say they're curious about using alcohol or tobacco products, and 1 in 50 say they're curious about using marijuana, a new study shows.

1 Jul 2022

Brigham receives $16 million Helmsley Charitable Trust grant to improve healthcare delivery for NCDs

Brigham and Women's Hospital announces a $16 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to support the implementation and evaluation of an integrated service delivery model (PEN-Plus) for severe chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and sickle cell disease in eight low- and lower-middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

1 Jul 2022

Cancer drug helped delay progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in mice

Researchers at UBC’s School of Biomedical Engineering have discovered that an existing cancer drug could have potential as a treatment for muscular dystrophy.

1 Jul 2022

Exploring association of fetal and infant weight growth patterns with impaired arterial health

A new study examined the association of weight growth patterns during infancy and fetal periods with carotid distensibility and cIMT in children who are 10 years of age.

1 Jul 2022

Children News and Research

Study suggests a potential tool to help improve fertility treatment outcomes

Motherhood does not negatively impact a woman's chance of surviving breast cancer

Study finds four out of ten children in the US live in homes with atleast one criminal charge

Risk of eczema in babies could be lowered by taking vitamin D supplements during pregnancy

New insights on measuring and valuing children's health-related quality of life

Researchers explore long-term pulmonary sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the pediatric population

Yearly BMI changes of children found to be higher during the COVID-19 pandemic

Crowdsourced data on overdoses pinpoints where to help

How Pfizer won the pandemic, reaping outsize profit and influence

Study finds hospitalizations for COVID-19–related croup increased after the onset of the Omicron variant

The varying patterns of acute respiratory infection hospitalizations before and during two pandemic years

Newly identified gut bacterial strains could pave the way for IBD and colon cancer prevention

Study looks at pneumococcal carriage among over 60's during COVID pandemic

Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium wins £1.6m additional funding to support early-stage translational research

COVID pandemic may have hidden a significant increase in child abuse, say doctors

Age-specific precision shielding in the pre-vaccination period of the COVID-19 pandemic

Study yields surprising insights about how pre-teens feel about alcohol, tobacco and marijuana

Brigham receives $16 million Helmsley Charitable Trust grant to improve healthcare delivery for NCDs

Cancer drug helped delay progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in mice

Exploring association of fetal and infant weight growth patterns with impaired arterial health

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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