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QUT leads study to improve quality of life for children with congenital heart disease

QUT, in partnership with Children’s Health Queensland, will lead a nation-wide study to help health services support the long-term neurodevelopment and quality of life of children with congenital heart disease.

12 Jun 2020

Online intervention benefits children with severe behavioral problems

A real-world trial has tested the effectiveness – and revealed the challenges – of adapting behavioral therapy to the online world.

12 Jun 2020

Does COVID-19 injure the placenta of pregnant women?

News-Medical speaks to Dr. Jeffery Goldstein about whether COVID-19 is damaging the placentas of pregnant women and what women can do to protect themselves.

12 Jun 2020

If you’ve lost your health plan in the COVID crisis, you’ve got options

The coronavirus pandemic — and the economic fallout that has come with it — boosted health insurance enrollment counselor Mark Van Arnam's workload. But he wants to be even busier.

12 Jun 2020

Study explores laws relating to sexual and gender minorities in the U.S.

Many Christian and political conservatives in the U.S. support legislation to deny sexual and gender minorities the rights most Americans enjoy: unfettered access to jobs, housing, services and public facilities; the opportunity to marry as they choose; and the right to adopt a child.

12 Jun 2020

Study: Only a minority of Geneva population has been infected by Covid-19 pandemic

A study carried out among 2'766 people by the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), the Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases, and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, reveals that, at the time of the decline of the Coronavirus pandemic, only 10.8% of the Geneva population had been infected with Covid-19.

12 Jun 2020

Fentanyl tops the list of drugs detected in overdose patients at Baltimore hospitals

A new University of Maryland study found fentanyl tops the list of drugs detected in overdose patients at two Baltimore hospital emergency departments.

12 Jun 2020

Type III interferons can increase risk of bacterial "superinfections" in the lung, research shows

Interferons and other cytokines produced by the immune system are important defenses against viral infections, but as we have seen in COVID-19, they can also contribute to damaging, potentially life-threatening lung inflammation.

12 Jun 2020

Ashion Analytics is now part of NCI's MATCH cancer clinical trials

Ashion Analytics, a clinical laboratory of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, is now part of the National Cancer Institute's MATCH program, which provides patients who have rare or difficult-to-treat cancers with access to unique clinical trials nationwide that might give them the best therapeutic treatments and outcomes.

12 Jun 2020

GlobalData: COVID-19 effects on pregnancy remain uncertain and debatable

A recent research study showed that for 16 COVID19 positive women there were evidences that their placentas had blood clots and indications of abnormal blood flow from the mother to the baby with most of the women having normal pregnancies.

12 Jun 2020

Researchers examine parental history of suicidal behavior in young children

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for persons ages 10-24. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), youth suicide rates have nearly tripled from 2007 to 2017.

12 Jun 2020

New training manual designed to help health care providers diagnose fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Omar Rahman, M.D., director of the Munroe-Meyer Institute Department of Genetics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, is part of a group that has created a training manual in both English and Spanish designed to help health care providers recognize and diagnose fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

11 Jun 2020

Familial severe psychiatric history affects treatment of bipolar disorder patients

Patients with bipolar disorder who have multiple family members with severe mental disorders, are more difficult to treat and require more medicine.

11 Jun 2020

Study: Many pediatric intensive care patients may not be getting rehabilitation therapy

Adult patients in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) are often given rehabilitation therapy and urged to keep mobile from an early point in their hospital stays.

11 Jun 2020

Electronic food vouchers provide refugee children with better health and nutrition

Electronic food vouchers provided young Rohingya children in Bangladeshi refugee camps with better health and nutrition than direct food assistance, according to new research led by Cornell University, in conjunction with the International Food Policy Research Institute.

11 Jun 2020

Children News and Research

QUT leads study to improve quality of life for children with congenital heart disease

Online intervention benefits children with severe behavioral problems

Does COVID-19 injure the placenta of pregnant women?

If you’ve lost your health plan in the COVID crisis, you’ve got options

Study explores laws relating to sexual and gender minorities in the U.S.

Study: Only a minority of Geneva population has been infected by Covid-19 pandemic

Fentanyl tops the list of drugs detected in overdose patients at Baltimore hospitals

Type III interferons can increase risk of bacterial "superinfections" in the lung, research shows

Ashion Analytics is now part of NCI's MATCH cancer clinical trials

GlobalData: COVID-19 effects on pregnancy remain uncertain and debatable

Researchers examine parental history of suicidal behavior in young children

New training manual designed to help health care providers diagnose fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Familial severe psychiatric history affects treatment of bipolar disorder patients

Study: Many pediatric intensive care patients may not be getting rehabilitation therapy

Electronic food vouchers provide refugee children with better health and nutrition

Improving reading proficiency may lead to fewer youth homicides, study shows

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Say what? The spread of coronavirus confusion

German researchers recommend early screening and treatment for spinal muscular atrophy

COVID ‐19 stay‐at‐home orders influence health behaviors of patients with obesity

Drug shortages can be exacerbated by COVID-19 pandemic

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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