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LSHTM professor receives Canada Gairdner Global Health Award

Sir Brian Greenwood, Manson Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, has dedicated his career to saving children's lives by tackling malaria, meningitis and pneumonia - diseases which are dictated by the weather.

22 Mar 2012

Urban children more likely to be smokers

More than 75 percent of fourth-graders in urban and rural settings have measurable levels of a nicotine breakdown product in their saliva that documents their second-hand smoke exposure, researchers report.

22 Mar 2012

Advances in Neuroimmune Biology explores maternal-fetal interactions

Fertility problems, recurrent miscarriages, and pregnancy complications can occur when maternal immunological tolerance of the fetus is impaired. G-rard Chaouat and colleagues from Inserm et Assistance Publique et Universit- Paris Sud Orsay, Hopital Antoine B-cl-re, Clamart Cedex, France, trace the evolution of the science of reproductive immunology to show how the current understanding of maternal-fetal tolerance/dialogue has developed, and its implications for the treatment of infertility disorders

22 Mar 2012

TGA clears Bioline's illumigene Group B Streptococcus test

Bioline, The PCR Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Meridian Bioscience, Inc., today announced that it has received clearance from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) for its illumigene Group B Streptococcus (GBS) test, the newest molecular product on the illumigene platform.

22 Mar 2012

Whooping cough outbreak despite vaccination

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21 Mar 2012

Reducing children's sugary beverage intake may help manage obesity

Sugary drinks are the single biggest contributor to the obesity epidemic in the United States, and according to the Centers for Disease Control, two-thirds of adults and one-third of the children in the U.S. are overweight or obese. Registered dietician Leah Holbrook, Coordinator of the Long Island Center for Pediatric Obesity Prevention in the Department of Family Medicine at Stony Brook School of Medicine, says that these sobering statistics and the fact that beverages account for nearly half of the added sugars in our diet are a wakeup call for Americans to reduce their sugary drink intake.

21 Mar 2012

Excluded from WHO targets, children at risk of being forgotten in global NCD agenda

Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley examines why children have been excluded from WHO targets on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in this post in her "Global Health Blog," writing, "Children die from cancer, heart disease and other NCDs but they are in danger of being forgotten as global targets for action are drawn up, say health groups."

21 Mar 2012

Top scientific experts publish new TB vaccine Blueprint

Against a backdrop of growing concern about the impact of tuberculosis on children, top scientific experts today published a global plan of action for developing the vaccines that are seen as critical to eliminating the disease.

21 Mar 2012

CNN examines nodding disease among children in Northern Uganda

CNN examines nodding disease, a seizure disorder that has affected at least 3,000 children in Northern Uganda, as well as children in Liberia, Sudan, and Tanzania.

21 Mar 2012

New way to accurately test for peanut allergy

Researchers from Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and the University of Melbourne have identified a new way to accurately test for peanut allergy.

21 Mar 2012

Majority of adults do not support legislation that addresses youth sexting

Sexting - sending sexually explicit, nude, or semi-nude photos by cell phone - has become a national concern, especially when it involves children and teens. A new poll shows that the vast majority of adults do not support legal consequences for teens who sext.

21 Mar 2012

Drexel University to establish nation's first autism center

Drexel University has received a gift of $1.5 million from the Charles and Barbara Close Foundation, founded by Drexel alumnus Charles Close ('36), to help establish the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute.

21 Mar 2012

Babies fed on demand associated with higher IQ scores

A new study suggests that babies who are breast-fed or bottle-fed to a schedule do not perform academically as well at school as their demand-fed peers. The finding is based on the results of IQ tests and school-based SATs tests carried out between the ages of five and 14, which show that demand-feeding was associated with higher IQ scores.

21 Mar 2012

Sharp rise recorded in cases of new strain of whooping cough: New genotype may be evading vaccine’s protective effects

Australia’s prolonged whooping cough epidemic has entered a disturbing new phase, with a study showing a new strain or genotype may be responsible for the sharp rise in the number of cases.

20 Mar 2012

Feeding babies on demand improves their IQ: Study

A new study shows that who are fed when they are hungry – with breast milk or formula – achieve higher scores in Sats tests at ages five, seven, 11 and 14, and that by the age of eight they have an IQ four to five points higher. However, mothers who keep to scheduled feeding times score better on wellbeing measures, and report feeling more confident and less tearful.

20 Mar 2012

“Meth” babies more at risk of behavioral problems: Study

A new study shows methamphetamine's potential lasting behavioral effects on kids of mothers who used meth during pregnancy. The behavior differences — anxiety, depression, moodiness — weren't huge, but lead researcher Linda LaGasse called them “very worrisome.”

20 Mar 2012

PROLOR commences hGH-CTP Phase II trial in children with GHD

PROLOR Biotech, Inc., a company developing next generation biobetter therapeutic proteins, today announced initiation of a Phase II clinical trial of its long-acting CTP-modified version of human growth hormone (hGH-CTP) in children with growth hormone deficiency.

20 Mar 2012

Pediatricians' unconscious racial bias may affect pain medication decisions

Pediatricians who show an unconscious preference for European Americans tend to prescribe better pain-management for white patients than they do for African-American patients, new University of Washington research shows.

20 Mar 2012

More than 1M children under age 5 at risk of malnutrition in Sahel, UNICEF warns

"The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is warning that more than a million children below the age of five in the Sahel are facing a disaster amid the ongoing food crisis in the drought-prone region of Africa," the U.N. News Centre reports.

20 Mar 2012

Former premature infants to celebrate 25th anniversary of LUHS' NICU on March 20

Former premature infants will return to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Loyola University Health System's (LUHS) neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 20. These patients are among the more than 18,000 infants who have been cared for by LUHS doctors and nurses since the unit opened its doors in 1987.

20 Mar 2012