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$3 million grant supports an ambitious effort to improve children’s health around the world

An international team of researchers has received $3 million to support an ambitious effort to understand how early gut development can profoundly shape children's health throughout life.

10 Mar 2023

Analysis shows parental sexual orientation does not determine children's development

Sexual minority families—where parental sexual orientation or gender identity is considered outside cultural, societal, or physiological norms—fare as well as, or better than, 'traditional' families with parents of the opposite sex, finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published in the open access journal BMJ Global Health.

10 Mar 2023

Mercury and urinary arsenobetaine in blood are strong biomarkers for seafood consumption among pregnant women

Mercury content in RBCs and arsenobetaine in urine could be considered seafood consumption biomarkers during pregnancy.

10 Mar 2023

Study identifies underlying psychiatric, learning problems in students who threaten violence

While previous studies have focused upon identifying potential school shooters, little is known about the mental health and associated characteristics of students who make threats in schools.

9 Mar 2023

Spike in eating disorders: Millions of people suffer from the condition

Mental health issues clung to COVID-19 like remoras to a shark during the height of the pandemic. And among the most serious were eating disorders.

9 Mar 2023

Detection and targeting of splicing deregulation reveal a potential strategy for pAML therapy

Pediatric acute myeloid leukemia or pAML is a childhood blood cancer, one that has proved confounding to clinicians and researchers, with a high relapse rate and relatively few identified genetic mutations (compared to the adult version) that might explain its cause.

8 Mar 2023

Racism contributes to disproportionate newborn drug testing

If a newborn tests positive for certain drugs after birth, mandated reporters in many states – including health care professionals and social workers – are required to report it to Child Protective Services.

8 Mar 2023

Elevated blood pressure linked to worsening cardiac damage during adolescence

Elevated blood pressure and hypertension can cause early cardiac damage during adolescence which is worsened by young adulthood, a paper published in the Journal of Pediatrics concludes.

8 Mar 2023

Increased prevalence of overweight and obesity among Swedish children during the pandemic

Overweight and obesity among four-year-olds increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by Uppsala University involving over 200,000 children in Sweden.

8 Mar 2023

California offers bipartisan road map for protecting kids online even as big tech fights back

In California, a Democrat and a Republican figured out how to pass the country's toughest online privacy law protecting kids. If their experience is any indication, though, federal legislators can expect fierce pushback from Big Tech if they heed President Joe Biden's call for similar action on a national scale.

8 Mar 2023

Study finds community-onset bacterial coinfection in children with critical COVID-19 is infrequent but empiric antibiotics are commonly prescribed

Researchers evaluated the use of empiric antibiotics to determine the prevalence rates of community-acquired bacterial coinfections among hospitalized pediatric critical COVID-19 patients.

8 Mar 2023

Does ingested fluoride affect the human microbiome?

Researchers discuss the effect(s) of fluoride exposure on the human microbiome.

7 Mar 2023

Study finds link between respiratory disease in early childhood and premature death risk in adulthood

Contracting a lower respiratory tract infection in early childhood is associated with a higher risk of dying from respiratory disease as an adult, according to new research.

7 Mar 2023

Typically developing infants perceive audio-video synchrony better than children at risk for autism

Rutgers research that may eventually enable far earlier autism diagnoses shows that typically developing infants perceive audio-video synchrony better than high-risk for autism infants.

7 Mar 2023

Analysis reveals an increasing trend in incidence of youth-onset type 1 and type 2 diabetes

New findings from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine confirm that the rates of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes continue to increase in children and young adults. Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic children and young adults also had higher incidence rates of diabetes.

6 Mar 2023

Study examines the relationship between exclusive human milk consumption and gut microbiota in preterm infants

Researchers examine the impact of an exclusive human milk diet on the infant gut microbiome.

6 Mar 2023

Study highlights the need to offer genetic testing as standard of care for people with cerebral palsy

A Geisinger meta-analysis of recent research on the genetics of cerebral palsy (CP) provides evidence that genetic testing should be offered as the standard of care for people with the disorder, similar to current recommendations for individuals with other neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD).

6 Mar 2023

New research pinpoints key culprit behind brain cancer metastasis in children

New research pinpoints a key cause of metastasis from an aggressive form of brain cancer in children and provides a potential new therapy for treating these tumors in the future.

6 Mar 2023

Erratic sleep patterns may increase blood pressure among teens who have more abdominal fat

Staying awake later into the night and sleeping in on the weekends are hallmarks of adolescent behavior, however, erratic sleep patterns may have consequences for future heart health by increasing blood pressure among teens who have more abdominal fat, according to new research published today in Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal.

6 Mar 2023

How maternal obesity and gestational diabetes can impact DNA methylation in infants

A study published in the journal Cardiovascular Diabetology describes that maternal obesity and gestational diabetes can induce epigenetic remodeling in infants, potentially impacting metabolic and developmental pathways.

6 Mar 2023

Child Health News

$3 million grant supports an ambitious effort to improve children’s health around the world

Analysis shows parental sexual orientation does not determine children's development

Mercury and urinary arsenobetaine in blood are strong biomarkers for seafood consumption among pregnant women

Study identifies underlying psychiatric, learning problems in students who threaten violence

Spike in eating disorders: Millions of people suffer from the condition

Detection and targeting of splicing deregulation reveal a potential strategy for pAML therapy

Racism contributes to disproportionate newborn drug testing

Elevated blood pressure linked to worsening cardiac damage during adolescence

Increased prevalence of overweight and obesity among Swedish children during the pandemic

California offers bipartisan road map for protecting kids online even as big tech fights back

Study finds community-onset bacterial coinfection in children with critical COVID-19 is infrequent but empiric antibiotics are commonly prescribed

Does ingested fluoride affect the human microbiome?

Study finds link between respiratory disease in early childhood and premature death risk in adulthood

Typically developing infants perceive audio-video synchrony better than children at risk for autism

Analysis reveals an increasing trend in incidence of youth-onset type 1 and type 2 diabetes

Study examines the relationship between exclusive human milk consumption and gut microbiota in preterm infants

Study highlights the need to offer genetic testing as standard of care for people with cerebral palsy

New research pinpoints key culprit behind brain cancer metastasis in children

Erratic sleep patterns may increase blood pressure among teens who have more abdominal fat

How maternal obesity and gestational diabetes can impact DNA methylation in infants

How innovation in dried blood spot testing is transforming neurological disease monitoring

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