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Parents play an important role in adolescent vulnerability to emotional eating

Emotional eating, or eating as a coping mechanism for negative, positive, or stress-driven emotions, is associated with unhealthy dietary patterns and weight gain.

7 Sep 2022

Mothers' experience of stress during pregnancy affects children's emotional development

Pregnant people who had bigger fluctuations in stress from one moment to the next - also called lability - had infants with more fear, sadness and distress at three months old than mothers with less stress variability, reports a new Northwestern University study that examined how a child's developmental trajectory begins even before birth.

7 Sep 2022

Study improves understanding of net worth poverty and child development

When people talk about poverty in the United States, most talk about income. But income is just half of the story, says Christina Gibson-Davis, a professor of public policy and sociology at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy and an affiliate of Center for Child and Family Policy.

6 Sep 2022

Study: Number of babies born with cytomegalovirus decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic

Published in JAMA, University of Minnesota Medical School researchers discovered the number of babies born in Minnesota with cytomegalovirus (CMV) decreased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

6 Sep 2022

Noninvasive respiratory support may not benefit nano-preterm infants, study suggests

Extremely premature infants still face daunting risks of sickness or death, even though advances in neonatal-perinatal care have improved infant survival at progressively lower gestational ages. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia - a serious condition of undeveloped lungs - is a leading morbidity in these tiny infants.

6 Sep 2022

Low-dose ketamine is safe and effective to treat children with ADNP syndrome, study suggests

Results of a small, but unique research study, led by researchers from the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai and published online in Human Genetics and Genomic Advances, suggest that low-dose ketamine is generally safe, well-tolerated and effective to treat clinical symptoms in children diagnosed with ADNP syndrome (also known as Helsmoortel-VanDerAa syndrome), a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the activity dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP) gene.

6 Sep 2022

Air pollution exposure during infancy impacts a child's gut bacteria, may increase disease risk

Exposure to air pollution in the first six months of life impacts a child's inner world of gut bacteria, or microbiome, in ways that could increase risk of allergies, obesity and diabetes, and even influence brain development, suggests new CU Boulder research.

6 Sep 2022

Simple measures can cut school children's outdoor and indoor exposure of toxins by almost half

Most UK primary schools experience levels of pollution which exceed the safe levels set out by the World Health Organization, yet simple measures can cut outdoor and indoor exposure of toxins by almost half, according to a new study from the University of Surrey.

5 Sep 2022

Hand, foot and mouth disease afflicting children hyped up as 'tomato flu'

Leading clinicians and medical researchers in India say they are aghast at the media reports that portray hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) — a common, relatively mild, viral infection afflicting children — as caused by a new virus responsible for what is dubbed as 'tomato flu'.

5 Sep 2022

Teenagers influenced by smoking parents to start using e-cigarettes, research says

Teenagers whose parents are smokers are 55% more likely to try e-cigarettes, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona, Spain. In a large study of Irish teenagers, the researchers have also found that the proportion who have tried e-cigarettes has been increasing dramatically and that although boys are more likely to use e-cigarettes, the rate of use among girls in increasing more rapidly.

5 Sep 2022

Study investigates the effect of vitamin D and fish oil on croup

Babies and children under three years old are less likely to develop croup if their mothers took fish oil and vitamin D supplements during pregnancy, according to new results from a clinical trial. The findings are from a randomised controlled trial – the 'gold standard' for medical research – that will be presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona, Spain. It is the first large study of its kind to investigate the effects of vitamin D and fish oil on croup.

5 Sep 2022

A mother's diet during pregnancy is linked to her child's food preferences

Researchers examine the relationship between the quality of the mother’s diet during pregnancy and with appetitive traits of offspring at five years.

4 Sep 2022

Many transgender parents hesitate to label their child's gender identity, research finds

Many transgender parents with children between one-and-a-half and six years of age hesitate to label their child's gender identity, according to new research from a team at Penn State and Guilford College.

2 Sep 2022

Arterial stiffness raises blood pressure in the young population via insulin resistance pathway

In the young population, arterial stiffness, an emerging risk factor for hypertension, indirectly raises blood pressure via an increase in insulin resistance but not via an increase in body fat, a paper published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine concludes.

2 Sep 2022

Researchers study the long-term consequences of Finland’s first vaccine mandate against smallpox

Researchers from University of Turku investigated how the vaccine mandate against the deadly childhood infection smallpox was successful at increasing vaccination coverage in 19th century Finland.

2 Sep 2022

CDC recommends Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine to be used as primary series option for adolescents

Today, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., signed a decision memo that Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine be used as another primary series option for adolescents ages 12 through 17.

1 Sep 2022

Sonographers can help enhance parents' emotional connection to the unborn baby during pregnancy

A systematic review of twenty-three studies suggests that, during pregnancy, expectant parents' feelings towards their unborn baby (fetus) can be positively enhanced by sonographers (specialist healthcare professionals who are trained to perform pregnancy ultrasound scans) making imaging examinations a truly parent-centred experience.

1 Sep 2022

Study shows how COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of progress in women and children's health

Declines in essential health care utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic in low- and lower-middle-income countries devastatingly impact women and children's health, according to a new study publishing August 30th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Tashrik Ahmed of the World Bank, US, and colleagues.

30 Aug 2022

Tight control of blood sugar in teens may help reduce diabetes-related brain damage

Tight control of blood sugar in teens with Type 1 diabetes may help reduce the disease's damaging effects on the brain, effects which have been shown even in younger children, according to a study published online today in Nature Communications.

30 Aug 2022

Discovery paves the way for specific therapies for common form of childhood brain and spine tumor

A study conducted by researchers in Brazil, Australia, Austria and the United States has made significant discoveries about a type of pediatric cancer with no approved drugs for treatment and with a low survival rate.

29 Aug 2022

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Parents play an important role in adolescent vulnerability to emotional eating

Mothers' experience of stress during pregnancy affects children's emotional development

Study improves understanding of net worth poverty and child development

Study: Number of babies born with cytomegalovirus decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic

Noninvasive respiratory support may not benefit nano-preterm infants, study suggests

Low-dose ketamine is safe and effective to treat children with ADNP syndrome, study suggests

Air pollution exposure during infancy impacts a child's gut bacteria, may increase disease risk

Simple measures can cut school children's outdoor and indoor exposure of toxins by almost half

Hand, foot and mouth disease afflicting children hyped up as 'tomato flu'

Teenagers influenced by smoking parents to start using e-cigarettes, research says

Study investigates the effect of vitamin D and fish oil on croup

A mother's diet during pregnancy is linked to her child's food preferences

Many transgender parents hesitate to label their child's gender identity, research finds

Arterial stiffness raises blood pressure in the young population via insulin resistance pathway

Researchers study the long-term consequences of Finland’s first vaccine mandate against smallpox

CDC recommends Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine to be used as primary series option for adolescents

Sonographers can help enhance parents' emotional connection to the unborn baby during pregnancy

Study shows how COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of progress in women and children's health

Tight control of blood sugar in teens may help reduce diabetes-related brain damage

Discovery paves the way for specific therapies for common form of childhood brain and spine tumor

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