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New study seeks to understand the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health visiting services

A new £265,000 study led by the University of Stirling is seeking to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected health visiting services across the UK, with a view to improving them in the future.

3 Jun 2022

Vaccine-induced immunity against severe COVID-19 remains high for about six months

Protection against symptomatic COVID-19 begins to decrease after one month from initial vaccination, while immunity against severe COVID-19 remains high for about six months, according to a recent study by Penn State College of Medicine scientists.

2 Jun 2022

Multidisciplinary medical team needed to provide care for pregnant women with lupus, study says

A study that includes researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery underscores the importance of a multidisciplinary medical team to counsel and provide care for women with systemic lupus erythematosus, the most common form of lupus, who become pregnant.

2 Jun 2022

Black youth in racist communities less likely to benefit from psychotherapy

A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), published by Elsevier, reports that Black youth living in communities with high (vs. low) anti-Black racism are less likely to benefit from psychotherapy ("talk therapy;" such as cognitive behavioral therapy).

2 Jun 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Washington’s slow churn

In the wake of three high-profile mass shootings in less than a month, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have renewed negotiations over legislation that could stem gun violence.

2 Jun 2022

NIH sponsors the trial of monoclonal antibody to prevent asthma exacerbations in urban youth

The National Institutes of Health has launched a clinical trial testing whether a monoclonal antibody, dupilumab, can reduce asthma attacks and improve lung function and asthma symptoms in children with poorly controlled allergic asthma who live in low-income urban neighborhoods.

2 Jun 2022

Scientists identify a new pneumococcal vaccine candidate

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a new vaccine candidate against pneumococci, bacteria that can cause pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis.

2 Jun 2022

New HSS study clarifies the clinical manifestations of undifferentiated connective tissue disease

A new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) has further clarified the clinical manifestations of undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD).

2 Jun 2022

UH expert in lupus reports two new discoveries

Two separate findings by a University of Houston nationally recognized expert in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus), a chronic autoimmune disease that affects multiple organs including the kidneys, skin, joints and heart, are being reported in scientific and medical journals.

2 Jun 2022

Two cases of MIS-C after laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated adolescent patients

Researchers investigated whether COVID-19 vaccination effectively protected adolescents in the United States from multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS).

2 Jun 2022

Presence of monkeypox viruses in distantly associated small mammal species

A recent study depicted that distantly linked tiny mammal species from the Democratic Republic of the Congo harbor monkeypox viruses (MPXV).

2 Jun 2022

Prenatal exposure to antiseizure drugs associated with risk of autism and intellectual disability

Women with epilepsy often need medication to prevent seizures during pregnancy. Previous studies have found an association between exposure to the antiseizure medication valproate during pregnancy and risk of autism and low IQ in the offspring.

2 Jun 2022

Team sports may help protect kids against mental health difficulties

A large-scale study of U.S. children and adolescents has found that participation in a team sport is associated with fewer mental health difficulties, but that kids who are exclusively involved in an individual sport - such as tennis or wrestling - may face greater mental health difficulties than kids who do no sports at all.

1 Jun 2022

Stem cell model could provide insights into biological mechanisms that underlie neuropsychiatric disorders

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have applied a novel stem cell model to map disease risk variants in human neurons, which could help provide insights into the biological mechanisms that underlie neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.

1 Jun 2022

Study: Pregnant women’s exposure to chemicals increased considerably in the last decade

Pregnant women’s exposures to chemicals increased considerably in the last decade, according to a recently published study.

1 Jun 2022

New research may open a window to treating aggressive form of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Survival has improved greatly in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). But a certain form of ALL that occurs mostly in babies is still very lethal, with a survival rate below 50 percent: B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with rearrangements of the mixed lineage leukemia gene, or MLL B-ALL.

1 Jun 2022

Inhibiting immune response-related enzyme holds promise in preventing or treating severe COVID-19

Blocking an immune response-related enzyme holds promise in preventing or treating severe COVID-19 symptoms by reducing inflammation, tissue injury and blood clots in the lungs, new research in mice suggests.

1 Jun 2022

Highly sensitive blood test could give doctors a new tool to quickly identify and treat tuberculosis

Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine have developed a new highly sensitive blood test for tuberculosis (TB) that screens for DNA fragments of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria that causes the deadly disease.

1 Jun 2022

People with food allergies less likely to become infected with SARS-CoV-2, study finds

A National Institutes of Health-funded study has found that people with food allergies are less likely to become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, than people without them. In addition, while previous research identified obesity as a risk factor for severe COVID-19, the new study has identified obesity and high body mass index (BMI) as associated with increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection.

1 Jun 2022

The impact of SARS-CoV-2 linkage on outcomes in hospitalized children with PIMS across Canada

Researchers analyze the clinical effects and implications of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children who were hospitalized due to MIS-C.

1 Jun 2022

Children News and Research

New study seeks to understand the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health visiting services

Vaccine-induced immunity against severe COVID-19 remains high for about six months

Multidisciplinary medical team needed to provide care for pregnant women with lupus, study says

Black youth in racist communities less likely to benefit from psychotherapy

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Washington’s slow churn

NIH sponsors the trial of monoclonal antibody to prevent asthma exacerbations in urban youth

Scientists identify a new pneumococcal vaccine candidate

New HSS study clarifies the clinical manifestations of undifferentiated connective tissue disease

UH expert in lupus reports two new discoveries

Two cases of MIS-C after laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated adolescent patients

Presence of monkeypox viruses in distantly associated small mammal species

Prenatal exposure to antiseizure drugs associated with risk of autism and intellectual disability

Team sports may help protect kids against mental health difficulties

Stem cell model could provide insights into biological mechanisms that underlie neuropsychiatric disorders

Study: Pregnant women’s exposure to chemicals increased considerably in the last decade

New research may open a window to treating aggressive form of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Inhibiting immune response-related enzyme holds promise in preventing or treating severe COVID-19

Highly sensitive blood test could give doctors a new tool to quickly identify and treat tuberculosis

People with food allergies less likely to become infected with SARS-CoV-2, study finds

The impact of SARS-CoV-2 linkage on outcomes in hospitalized children with PIMS across Canada

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