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Research suggests school reopenings contribute to rise in COVID-19 cases

A study recently published on the preprint server medRxiv in September 2020 by researcher Richard Beesley at Juvenile Arthritis Research reports on the impact of school reopenings on the spread of the virus.

8 Sep 2020

Young children use the right and left brain hemispheres to understand language

Infants and young children have brains with a superpower, of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists.

7 Sep 2020

Prescribing treatments according to genetic differences could benefit children with asthma

Selecting treatments according to genetic differences could help children and teenagers with asthma, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

7 Sep 2020

Probiotics may help manage obesity in younger population

Probiotics may help children and adolescents with obesity lose weight when taken alongside a calorie-controlled diet, according to a study being presented at e-ECE 2020.

7 Sep 2020

MIS-C linked to COVID-19 damages children's hearts

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), believed to be linked to COVID-19, damages the heart to such an extent that some children will need lifelong monitoring and interventions, said the senior author of a medical literature review published Sept. 4 in EClinicalMedicine, a journal of The Lancet.

5 Sep 2020

Early identification, treatment is vital to avoid COVID-19-related health anxieties in children

Early identification and treatment is vital to avoid long-term mental health consequences from COVID-19 among children and young people, say researchers.

5 Sep 2020

Depression rate in the United States triples during COVID pandemic, research shows

In a study published in the journal JAMA Network, nearly a quarter of people in the United States are experiencing symptoms of depression, which is about three times the number before the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has begun.

3 Sep 2020

New intervention to help improve outcomes for adolescents with Type 1 diabetes

Adolescence is a difficult period of development, made more complex for those with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM).

3 Sep 2020

Phase 3 study to test efficacy of new treatment for pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome

Octapharma has launched a phase 3, multi-center superiority study to compare the effectiveness of PANZYGA (immune globulin intravenous, human - ifas) 10% Liquid Preparation versus placebo in patients with pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS).

3 Sep 2020

Study shows what happens in the fetal brain affected by congenital Zika syndrome

Zika virus infection during pregnancy can cause severe abnormalities in the fetus, including malformations such as microcephaly.

3 Sep 2020

COVID-19 virus and antibodies can coexist in young patients, shows study

With many questions remaining around how children spread COVID-19, Children's National Hospital researchers set out to improve the understanding of how long it takes pediatric patients with the virus to clear it from their systems, and at what point they start to make antibodies that work against the coronavirus.

3 Sep 2020

Bilingual children may reach adulthood with more grey matter

Children and adolescents who speak more than one language may reach adulthood with more grey matter, according to a new study.

2 Sep 2020

Misfiring brain cells may create swallowing difficulties in children with neurodevelopmental disorders

Misfiring brain cells that control key parts of the mouth and tongue may be creating swallowing difficulties in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, according to neuroscientists with Virginia Tech and George Washington University.

2 Sep 2020

Addressing food insecurity in school children during COVID-19 pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has brought a number of challenges to schools, which were forced to close in the spring to help slow the spread of infection.

1 Sep 2020

New research sheds light on the risks of COVID-19 for pregnant women and their babies

New research findings published today in the BMJ helps to shed light on the risks of COVID-19 for pregnant women and their babies.

1 Sep 2020

Growth hormone associated with early puberty and future breast cancer risk

When girls reach puberty at an unusually early age, they face a significantly higher risk of developing breast cancer later in life. Now, experts at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati offer a new, unified explanation for why that increased risk occurs.

1 Sep 2020

Survey shows pandemic will limit access to pediatric eye care

Pediatric ophthalmologists are a rarity in medicine. There are only about a thousand of them to serve America's 75 million children. And as other physicians fled private practice for hospitals or have been gobbled up by private equity firms, most pediatric ophthalmologists remain in private practice.

1 Sep 2020

Researchers identify a new way to curb air pollution

Studies show those flashing real-time speed limit displays you see in neighborhoods are effective at telling motorists to slow down. Kerry Kelly thought: Could something like that help curb air pollution?

1 Sep 2020

Newly approved drugs in Canada lack key pediatric drug information

Newly approved drugs in Canada lack important pediatric drug information in their product monograph, according to an analysis led by McMaster University and McMaster Children's Hospital.

1 Sep 2020

Eating ultraprocessed food shortens your telomeres

Now, a new study titled, "Ultra-processed food consumption and the risk of short telomeres in an elderly population of the Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra (SUN) Project," is being presented at this year's European and International Conference on Obesity (ECOICO 2020), held online this year (1-4 September).

31 Aug 2020