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Malaria: An Interview with the World Health Organization

In this interview, we spoke to Dr. Akpaka Kalu, the World Health Organization's team leader for malaria in Africa, about the groundbreaking malaria vaccine rollout announcement.

28 Oct 2021

Medicare punishes 2,499 hospitals for high readmissions

The federal government's effort to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions is ending its first decade with Medicare cutting payments to nearly half the nation's hospitals.

28 Oct 2021

New UC Davis study to track children’s exposure to chemicals in household dust

When it comes to keeping kids safe, parents may not think about household dust as a potential hazard. But those fine particles all around your home can expose kids to a wide range of chemicals.

27 Oct 2021

Study: Younger and older patients with metastatic colorectal cancer survive for same amount of time

Even though young patients with metastatic colorectal cancer tend to be more fit and receive more intensive treatment than older patients, both groups survive for roughly the same amount of time, according to a new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators.

27 Oct 2021

COVID-19 and subacute neuropsychiatric symptoms in adolescents

A new paper discusses neurologic symptoms in children with COVID-19.

27 Oct 2021

Studies test intravenous immunoglobulin for treatment of Kawasaki disease and MIS-C

Kawasaki disease (KD) is rare, with fewer than 6,000 diagnosed cases per year in the United States. It is most common in infants and young children and causes inflammation in the walls of some blood vessels in the body.

27 Oct 2021

Scientists flip a new piece in the male infertility puzzle

Scientists at Cincinnati Children's appear to have flipped another piece in the underexplored puzzle of male infertility.

27 Oct 2021

How billing turns a routine birth into a high-cost emergency

Caitlin Wells Salerno knew that some mammals — like the golden-mantled ground squirrels she studies in the Rocky Mountains — invest an insane amount of resources in their young. That didn't prepare her for the resources the conservation biologist would owe after the birth of her second son.

27 Oct 2021

New study explains why Delta is so easily transmitted and infects people quickly

The Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 has swept the globe, becoming the dominant variant within just a few months. A new study from Boston Children's Hospital, published today in Science, explains why Delta is so easily spread and infects people so quickly, and suggests a more targeted strategy for developing future COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.

27 Oct 2021

New mouse model shows that it is never too late to treat Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome

Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III and the Spanish Cardiovascular Research Network (CIBERCV), led by Dr Vicente Andrés, have generated the HGPSrev experimental mouse model.

26 Oct 2021

Repeated dopamine release in the brain plays a key role in infant social development

Changing levels of the chemical dopamine, a chemical most associated with motivation, may help explain why stressful experiences during infancy can lead to lasting behavioral issues, a new study in rodents shows.

26 Oct 2021

Extending COVID-19 vaccinations to adolescents and children may lower the overall disease burden

A recent study by researchers from the Netherlands highlights that the introduction of vaccination programs against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to adolescents and children may reduce infection rates and severe disease outcomes – both in these age groups and in the population as a whole. The paper is currently available on medRxiv* preprint server while it undergoes peer review.

26 Oct 2021

Children News and Research

Malaria: An Interview with the World Health Organization

Medicare punishes 2,499 hospitals for high readmissions

New UC Davis study to track children’s exposure to chemicals in household dust

Study: Younger and older patients with metastatic colorectal cancer survive for same amount of time

COVID-19 and subacute neuropsychiatric symptoms in adolescents

Studies test intravenous immunoglobulin for treatment of Kawasaki disease and MIS-C

Scientists flip a new piece in the male infertility puzzle

How billing turns a routine birth into a high-cost emergency

New study explains why Delta is so easily transmitted and infects people quickly

New mouse model shows that it is never too late to treat Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome

Repeated dopamine release in the brain plays a key role in infant social development

Extending COVID-19 vaccinations to adolescents and children may lower the overall disease burden

Less physical activity and more screen time impact children's mental health during the pandemic

Study highlights the importance of routine suicide risk screenings in children with ASD

Mental health determinants during COVID pandemic pregnancies in the U.K.

Safer, more effective therapies could help fight the obesity epidemic

Study finds potentially long-lasting impact of the pandemic on scientists

Direct primary care, with a touch of Robin Hood

Evaluation of COVID-19 infection risk during US spring semester in-person teaching

Post COVID-19 affects children as well as adults

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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