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ACMG’s NICHD contract extended for Newborn Screening Translational Research Network

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) has been awarded a five-year extension of its NICHD contract for The Newborn Screening Translational Research Network (NBSTRN).

5 Oct 2018

Energy drink users have greater exposure to digital marketing than non-users, shows study

Energy drinks represent a new category of nonalcoholic beverage with global sales of over USD 50 billion. Containing caffeine as a main ingredient, energy drinks are a central part of partying and sporting culture.

5 Oct 2018

Study tracks self‐perceived body image of children

Results from a Chinese nationwide survey indicate that the prevalence of childhood overweight/obesity nearly tripled from 6.5% to 16.8% from 2000-2011, but children's perception of being fat remained at 2%. The findings are published in Obesity.

4 Oct 2018

New review points to statistically small link between children's screen media use and ADHD

There is a statistically small relationship between children's screen media use and ADHD-related behaviors. This is the finding of an extensive literature review on this subject carried out by researchers from the UvA's Center for research on Children, Adolescents and the Media.

4 Oct 2018

First suicide attempts in youth more lethal than previously realized

First suicide attempts are more lethal than previously realized, reports a study of children and adolescents published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

4 Oct 2018

Wits doctors transplant liver from HIV positive mother to her child with end-stage liver disease

This was the ethical dilemma faced by doctors at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre to save a child's life.

4 Oct 2018

Physical therapy can effectively treat infants with congenital muscular torticollis

Congenital muscular torticollis is a common postural deformity in infants, and one that can be effectively treated by physical therapy.

3 Oct 2018

RCIGM and IDbyDNA launch clinical trial to improve diagnostics for pediatric CNS infections

The Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine and IDbyDNA, a metagenomics technology company translating microbial genomics into actionable information for healthcare providers, have launched a clinical trial to improve diagnostics for pediatric central nervous system infections.

3 Oct 2018

Researchers insert just enough human DNA into mice to study preterm birth

Preterm birth remains a global epidemic linked to a lifetime of potential health complications. It also is difficult to study in living creatures--especially the uniquely precise biology of preterm birth in humans.

3 Oct 2018

Lasting effects of teen cannabis use observed on important cognitive functions

Although studies have shown that alcohol and cannabis misuse are related to impaired cognition in youth, previous studies were not designed to understand this relationship and differentiate whether cannabis use was causal or consequential to cognitive impairment.

3 Oct 2018

A promising new approach for repairing cleft palate in infants

A technique using umbilical cord blood stem cells could be a promising new approach for repair of cleft palate in infants, reports a paper in The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

3 Oct 2018

NIH Director's New Innovator Award for Vanderbilt professor

Reyna Gordon, PhD, assistant professor of Otolaryngology and director of the Music Cognition Lab in the Department of Otolaryngology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award of $2.3 million in total costs for her project, "Biomarkers of Rhythmic Communication: Integrating Foundational and Translational Approaches."

3 Oct 2018

Carnegie professor receives NIH Director's New Innovator Award

Kathryn Whitehead, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, has been awarded a 2018 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award for her project titled "Fate, Function, and Genetic Engineering of Breast Milk Cells for Infant Therapy."

3 Oct 2018

Single ovary removal for fertility preservation in girls causes no complications

In the first publication from the U.S. on surgical techniques and outcomes of single ovary removal for fertility preservation in girls, surgeons from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago report that the procedure caused no complications and can be performed laparoscopically, on an outpatient basis, without delaying treatment for cancer or other therapies posing high risk of infertility.

1 Oct 2018

Child Health News

ACMG’s NICHD contract extended for Newborn Screening Translational Research Network

Energy drink users have greater exposure to digital marketing than non-users, shows study

Study tracks self‐perceived body image of children

New review points to statistically small link between children's screen media use and ADHD

First suicide attempts in youth more lethal than previously realized

Wits doctors transplant liver from HIV positive mother to her child with end-stage liver disease

Physical therapy can effectively treat infants with congenital muscular torticollis

RCIGM and IDbyDNA launch clinical trial to improve diagnostics for pediatric CNS infections

Researchers insert just enough human DNA into mice to study preterm birth

Lasting effects of teen cannabis use observed on important cognitive functions

A promising new approach for repairing cleft palate in infants

NIH Director's New Innovator Award for Vanderbilt professor

Carnegie professor receives NIH Director's New Innovator Award

Single ovary removal for fertility preservation in girls causes no complications

New best practice recommendations to verify NG feeding tube location in pediatrics

Study using DFMO shows positive results for children with high risk neuroblastoma

Infants face high thrombosis risk

Researchers find link between insufficient sleep and unsafe behavior in teens

Elevated cerebrospinal fluid levels linked with autism diagnosis, third study confirms

Why patients with ALL relapse after CAR-T cell therapy

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

How industrial hygiene flow calibration supports defensible exposure data

How electrical engineering ensures accurate calibration and patient safety

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