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Study finds striking epigenetic differences in the airway cells of adult children born to asthmatic mothers

Asthma is a chronic condition that affects 25 million people in the United States. Having a mother with asthma is an important risk factor and a new study may explain why.

6 Jun 2022

Three-drug therapy with autologous stem cell transplant improves progression-free survival for multiple myeloma patients

Patients with multiple myeloma who have been treated with a three-drug combination therapy have a growing number of choices for subsequent treatment. Results of a new study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute can help patients and their physicians weigh benefits and risks of each option.

6 Jun 2022

Poor sleep, screen time, alcohol and tobacco use increased among Australian teens after the pandemic

Australian teens had overall improvements in sleep over the two years and some improvements in dietary choices during lockdown, however these were offset by increases in already concerning levels of screen time and worrying trends of alcohol use and poor sleep among girls.

6 Jun 2022

Children with leukemia have higher survival than adolescents and young adults with the same cancer

Children (0-14 years) diagnosed with leukemia have benefited from decades of research to improve outcomes, and their five-year survival has increased more than that of adolescents (15-19 years) and young adults (20-24 years), suggests new research published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.

6 Jun 2022

Infants exposed to COVID-19 in the womb exhibit differences in neurodevelopmental outcomes

Babies born to mothers who suffered COVID-19 disease during pregnancy seem to exhibit differences in neurodevelopmental outcomes at 6 weeks, according to a preliminary analysis presented in the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry.

6 Jun 2022

Study confirms the benefits of 'bridge therapy' for some children with high-risk neuroblastoma

Approximately half of children with neuroblastoma - a childhood cancer that develops from immature nerve cells - have a form that indicates a high likelihood of recurrence.

6 Jun 2022

Addressing the ‘trust factor’: South Carolina researchers tackle health disparities using genetics

Quenton Tompkins' family tree is deeply rooted in rural McCormick County, South Carolina.

6 Jun 2022

COVID-19's economic impact on healthcare systems, societies, and the population

In a recent study review posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated the economic and medical costs incurred due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

6 Jun 2022

Taking everolimus post-surgery can improve outcomes in patients with high-risk renal cell carcinoma

In a study of patients with high-risk renal cell carcinoma, those who took the drug everolimus daily for up to one year after surgery lived longer without their disease returning (recurrence-free survival, or RFS) than those who did not take everolimus, although the results narrowly missed the clinical trial's prespecified level for statistical significance.

4 Jun 2022

Novel approach identifies potent drug-like molecules that bind to cancer protein of interest

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital have identified potent, highly specific compounds that interfere with bromodomain (BD)-containing proteins involved in cancer.

3 Jun 2022

Growing up in unsafe neighborhoods may lead to poorer sleep in adulthood

A recent study of Black women found that growing up in an unsafe neighborhood was associated with poorer sleep in adulthood.

3 Jun 2022

CDC posts food safety alert about multistate outbreak of Salmonella Senftenberg infections

A CDC food safety alert regarding a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Senftenberg infections has been posted: https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/senftenberg-05-22/index.html

3 Jun 2022

Community's sleep health predicts children's opportunities for positive growth and success

A community's sleep health is the most significant health predictor of children's opportunities for positive growth and success, according to an analysis to be presented at SLEEP 2022.

3 Jun 2022

Study: Nearly 43% of patients with KRAS-mutated lung cancer respond to experimental drug adagrasib

Nearly 43% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose lung cancers harbored a specific KRAS mutation responded to the experimental drug adagrasib, and the targeted agent also showed activity against lesions in the brain that metastasized from the lung tumors, according to results of a study led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators.

3 Jun 2022

Combinations of multiple genetic factors play a role in the broad spectrum of autism

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is referred to as a "spectrum" because clinical features of ASD range from mild social impairments in some people to severe intellectual disability or epilepsy in others.

3 Jun 2022

Computer vision tool effectively distinguishes rheumatoid arthritis from osteoarthritis in joint tissue

A new study led by Hospital for Special Surgery investigators in New York City has found that their computer vision tool effectively distinguishes rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from osteoarthritis (OA) in joint tissue taken from patients who underwent total knee replacement (TKR).

3 Jun 2022

Study shows significant changes in sleep timing and screen use among children during the pandemic

A new study to be presented at SLEEP 2022 shows significant changes in sleep timing and screen use among America's children during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

3 Jun 2022

Liquid biopsy could better predict immunotherapy response in lung cancer patients than tumor biopsy

Mount Sinai researchers have validated for the first time that a simple blood test called a liquid biopsy could be a better predictor of whether cancer immunotherapy will be successful for a patient with lung cancer than an invasive tumor biopsy procedure.

3 Jun 2022

For many low-income families, getting formula has always been a strain

Miracle Abbott became pregnant during her junior year at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

3 Jun 2022

Black women have much at stake in states where abortion access may vanish

"Adulting" was not going great for Tia Freeman. She had lost her scholarship at the University of Tennessee and enlisted in the Air Force. As she finished training to be an analyst, she got pregnant despite being on birth control.

3 Jun 2022

Children News and Research

Study finds striking epigenetic differences in the airway cells of adult children born to asthmatic mothers

Three-drug therapy with autologous stem cell transplant improves progression-free survival for multiple myeloma patients

Poor sleep, screen time, alcohol and tobacco use increased among Australian teens after the pandemic

Children with leukemia have higher survival than adolescents and young adults with the same cancer

Infants exposed to COVID-19 in the womb exhibit differences in neurodevelopmental outcomes

Study confirms the benefits of 'bridge therapy' for some children with high-risk neuroblastoma

Addressing the ‘trust factor’: South Carolina researchers tackle health disparities using genetics

COVID-19's economic impact on healthcare systems, societies, and the population

Taking everolimus post-surgery can improve outcomes in patients with high-risk renal cell carcinoma

Novel approach identifies potent drug-like molecules that bind to cancer protein of interest

Growing up in unsafe neighborhoods may lead to poorer sleep in adulthood

CDC posts food safety alert about multistate outbreak of Salmonella Senftenberg infections

Community's sleep health predicts children's opportunities for positive growth and success

Study: Nearly 43% of patients with KRAS-mutated lung cancer respond to experimental drug adagrasib

Combinations of multiple genetic factors play a role in the broad spectrum of autism

Computer vision tool effectively distinguishes rheumatoid arthritis from osteoarthritis in joint tissue

Study shows significant changes in sleep timing and screen use among children during the pandemic

Liquid biopsy could better predict immunotherapy response in lung cancer patients than tumor biopsy

For many low-income families, getting formula has always been a strain

Black women have much at stake in states where abortion access may vanish

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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