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Inmates who died asked for release before falling ill with covid

Rory Adams did not know that Christmas in a small rural hospital in West Virginia would be the last time he saw his wife alive. She'd entered prison in early January 2021 to serve a 42-month sentence for failure to collect payroll taxes.

18 Feb 2022

Meta-analysis of population-based seroprevalence studies to estimate SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in Africa

Researchers conducted a descriptive meta-analysis to estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Africa.

18 Feb 2022

‘I just want to stay in one spot’: From homeless to housed in rugged Del Norte

On a rainy winter morning, Jamie Hayden stopped in to visit with Diane Timothio. A case manager in Del Norte County on California's remote northern coast, Hayden comes by often, sometimes staying for hours, to work with Timothio.

18 Feb 2022

Exposure to endocrine disrupting mixtures during pregnancy impacts children's brain development

By linking human population studies with experiments in cell and animal models, researchers have provided evidence that complex mixtures of endocrine disrupting chemicals impact children's brain development and language acquisition.

17 Feb 2022

Dual access veno-arterial approach increases mortality rate for babies in respiratory failure put on ECMO

The current trend of using two cannulas to place most newborns in respiratory failure on life-sustaining ECMO, one in the right internal jugular vein and a second in the right common carotid artery, rather than a single cannula in the right internal jugular, increases mortality rates for these babies, investigators report.

17 Feb 2022

How accurate are rapid antigen COVID tests?

A new study updates the state of knowledge about antigen rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDT) in the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

17 Feb 2022

New mutation may define a high-risk subtype of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia

A new mutation was identified in 9 percent of relapsed cases of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that may define a new subtype of the disease.

17 Feb 2022

$9.8 million NIH grant drives nationwide effort to unravel the complexities of long COVID

Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a $9.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a consortium of health care institutions that are analyzing nationwide health data in an effort to unravel the complexities of long COVID.

17 Feb 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: It’s health costs, stupid (2022 edition)

The pandemic may be showing signs of winding down, but health care costs are not.

17 Feb 2022

NYU Langone Health awarded $8 million NIH grant to develop implantable device to study epileptic seizures

There are more than 3.4 million adults and children in the United States with active epilepsy, and about one million of those experience seizures that are unable to be controlled by medicine.

17 Feb 2022

Study describes trajectories of insomnia symptoms from childhood through young adulthood

Children with insomnia symptoms are likely to persist with them as young adults and are significantly more likely to develop an insomnia disorder in early adulthood compared to children who do not have difficulty sleeping, according to new research led by scientists at Penn State College of Medicine.

17 Feb 2022

Penn State researchers receive $3.9 million to study the impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has awarded Penn State College of Medicine $3.9 million through May 2025 to study the impact COVID-19 has on pregnancy.

17 Feb 2022

New high-risk subtype of relapsed pediatric AML revealed

When acute myeloid leukemia (AML) relapses, it is more difficult to treat and outcomes are dismal. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered a mutation in pediatric AML that physicians can use to identify high-risk patients and better guide treatment.

17 Feb 2022

Children News and Research

Inmates who died asked for release before falling ill with covid

Meta-analysis of population-based seroprevalence studies to estimate SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in Africa

‘I just want to stay in one spot’: From homeless to housed in rugged Del Norte

Exposure to endocrine disrupting mixtures during pregnancy impacts children's brain development

Dual access veno-arterial approach increases mortality rate for babies in respiratory failure put on ECMO

How accurate are rapid antigen COVID tests?

New mutation may define a high-risk subtype of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia

$9.8 million NIH grant drives nationwide effort to unravel the complexities of long COVID

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: It’s health costs, stupid (2022 edition)

NYU Langone Health awarded $8 million NIH grant to develop implantable device to study epileptic seizures

Study describes trajectories of insomnia symptoms from childhood through young adulthood

Penn State researchers receive $3.9 million to study the impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy

New high-risk subtype of relapsed pediatric AML revealed

Study explores differential immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 in adults and children

Study characterizes brain changes in adolescents affected by juvenile fibromyalgia

As politics infects public health, private companies profit

Study investigates what causes blood malignancies linked to gene therapy for sickle cell disease

Study: One in four women has experienced domestic violence within their lifetime

Parents in disadvantaged communities talk to their kids more about COVID-19 related risks, study finds

Pediatric study links neighborhood-level factors to timely surgical care access

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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