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Electric scooters are leading to rising numbers of facial and head injuries

A Rutgers study has found that riding electric scooters have led to three times higher facial and head injuries over the last decade.

12 Jun 2019

Researchers find three parent risk factors associated with childhood physical abuse

Adults who had parents who struggled with addiction, intimate partner violence and mental illness are more than 30 times more likely to have been victims of childhood physical abuse than those whose parents did not have these problems, once age and race were taken into account.

11 Jun 2019

Increasing iron intake does not improve the chances of conception

Researchers have found that women who are trying to conceive do not benefit from increasing iron intake.

11 Jun 2019

Children up to date on pertussis vaccine schedule have low risk of developing whooping cough

In a large new Kaiser Permanente study, children who were up to date on their pertussis vaccine schedule were far less likely to develop the disease than unvaccinated children.

11 Jun 2019

Children with T1D have slower growth in brain areas linked with mild cognitive deficits

A study co-led by Dr. Nelly Mauras at Nemours Children's Health System in Jacksonville, Florida found that children with type 1 diabetes have slower growth in brain areas associated with mild cognitive deficits compared to children without T1D.

11 Jun 2019

Emergency department overcrowding not linked to delayed hospitalization or death in children

Visiting a crowded pediatric emergency department in Canada may increase the likelihood of being hospitalized but is not linked to delayed hospitalization or death in children, according to research in CMAJ.

11 Jun 2019

$Early exposure to antacids could put infants at risk for bone fractures during childhood$

Early exposure to antacids could put infants at risk for bone fractures during childhood

Infants who are given antacids in their first year of life are more likely to fracture a bone later as a child, according to a new study published June 7 in Pediatrics.

11 Jun 2019

Doctors urge hospitals to reconsider the type of fluids used to treat children with sepsis

Doctors have urged hospitals around the world to reconsider the type of fluids used to treat children gravely ill with sepsis.

11 Jun 2019

Exposure to artificial light at bedtime linked with weight gain in women

Sleeping with a television or light on in the room may be a risk factor for gaining weight or developing obesity, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health.

11 Jun 2019

Researchers map the most common bacterial cause of pneumonia around the world

Researchers have mapped the most common bacterial cause of pneumonia around the world and revealed how these bacteria evolve in response to vaccination.

11 Jun 2019

New Cochrane Review updates guidelines on Xpert Ultra for diagnosing tuberculosis

Tuberculosis causes more deaths globally than any other infectious disease and is a top 10 cause of death worldwide.

11 Jun 2019

Study suggests therapeutic solutions for pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration

The scientific research team from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide led by doctor José Antonio Sánchez Alcázar has published a new study in the international magazines Molecular Neorubiology and Neural Regeneration Research.

11 Jun 2019

Drug that targets the immune system can delay type 1 diabetes in high risk children, adults

A drug that targets the immune system can delay the onset of type 1 diabetes an average of two years in children and adults at high risk, according to findings from TrialNet's Teplizumab (anti-CD3) Prevention Study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

10 Jun 2019

Children News and Research

Electric scooters are leading to rising numbers of facial and head injuries

Researchers find three parent risk factors associated with childhood physical abuse

Increasing iron intake does not improve the chances of conception

Children up to date on pertussis vaccine schedule have low risk of developing whooping cough

Children with T1D have slower growth in brain areas linked with mild cognitive deficits

Emergency department overcrowding not linked to delayed hospitalization or death in children

Early exposure to antacids could put infants at risk for bone fractures during childhood

Doctors urge hospitals to reconsider the type of fluids used to treat children with sepsis

Exposure to artificial light at bedtime linked with weight gain in women

Researchers map the most common bacterial cause of pneumonia around the world

New Cochrane Review updates guidelines on Xpert Ultra for diagnosing tuberculosis

Study suggests therapeutic solutions for pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration

Drug that targets the immune system can delay type 1 diabetes in high risk children, adults

Bridging the Gaps to Advance Research in the Cannabis Industry

Poor sleep linked to a lack of essential vitamins and minerals

Trump administration cracks down on fetal tissue research

Doctors urged to prescribe woodland walks for mental health problems

How measles detectives work to contain an outbreak

Chickenpox vaccine lessens likelihood of pediatric shingles

FDA authorizes marketing of first medical device for pain relief in adolescents with IBS

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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