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UCSF researchers lead $10 million research project on pediatric cancer

Researchers at UC San Francisco are leading a five-year, $10 million research project dedicated to pediatric cancer, funded by the first grant of its kind to focus on a molecular pathway that underlies many cancers rather than on a cancer in a particular organ or tissue in the body.

9 Sep 2015

New Duke study finds that teenage kids are more economically rational than young adults

Teenagers are irrational and make bad decisions. Or do they? A new Duke study finds that adolescents ages 10 to 16 can be more analytical in their economic choices than many slightly older young adults.

9 Sep 2015

Children's Cancer Institute awarded NCI grant to fast-track new drugs into clinical trials for childhood cancer

Children's Cancer Institute welcomes its inclusion, by the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), in a systematic program of drug evaluation in childhood cancer.

9 Sep 2015

CHAM, AECC receive $1.3 million NCI grant to advance more effective bone cancer treatments for children

The Children's Hospital at Montefiore and the NCI-designated Albert Einstein Cancer Center today announced receipt of $1.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.

9 Sep 2015

Seizures are common in childhood brain tumor survivors

New research reveals that seizures are frequent in childhood brain tumor survivors. Among 298 children who were diagnosed with a brain tumor at least 2 years earlier and were followed for an average of 7.6 years, 24% of patients experienced seizures at the start of the study and 14% continued to experience them on an ongoing basis.

9 Sep 2015

Smoke-free workplace, tax hikes discourage youth from taking up smoking

Banning smoking in the workplace and increasing taxes on cigarettes have discouraged teens and young adults from taking up smoking, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Merced.

9 Sep 2015

Multi-sensory stimulation during infancy does not guarantee successful learning, say researchers

Many parents and caregivers believe that multi-sensory stimulation during infancy promotes developmental growth and learning, but researchers who conducted eye movement experiments on preverbal infants show that this is not always true.

9 Sep 2015

Survival and health outcomes for extremely preterm infants improve over 20 years

Over the last 20 years, complications have decreased and survival has improved for extremely preterm infants, according to a study in the September 8 issue of JAMA.

9 Sep 2015

AMRA, Pfizer collaborate to assess fat and muscle measurements to predict obesity, diabetes

AMRA announced that they have entered into a unique international collaboration with Pfizer Inc. to investigate the relationship between fat and muscle distribution in the body and metabolic health, including risk factors for conditions such as obesity and diabetes.

8 Sep 2015

Simple checklist to help parents determine their children’s school environment

Grassroots Environmental Education, a science-based environmental health non-profit organization based in New York, has issued a simple three-point checklist for parents of school-age children to help them determine if their child's school environment is as healthy as it can be.

4 Sep 2015

Current school and university start times linked to poor learning, health problems

A study by researchers from the University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School and the University of Nevada has found that current school and university start times are damaging the learning and health of students.

4 Sep 2015

New treatments under development for adults with coeliac disease may also benefit children

A new study has revealed childhood coeliac disease mirrors the condition in adults, increasing the possibility a coeliac disease therapy that could enable patients to eat gluten again will work in children.

4 Sep 2015

Repeated exposure to anesthesia early in life causes long-term behavioral changes

Repeated exposure to anesthesia early in life causes alterations in emotional behavior that may persist long-term, according to a study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in collaboration with the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and published in the Online First edition of Anesthesiology, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

4 Sep 2015

Children's Hospital Los Angeles receives $2 million to spur research on brain, spinal cord tumors

A life-changing event for a Los Angeles family has resulted in their funding an endowment to support The Kort Family Foundation Brain and Spinal Cord Tumor Research Program in the Division of Neurosurgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

3 Sep 2015

Researchers examine use of MRI after birth to identify children at risk of later academic impairment

School age children who are born prematurely are more likely to have low mathematical achievement, thought to be associated with reduced working memory and number skills, according to a new study published today in the neurology journal Brain.

3 Sep 2015

Guilting middle-schoolers into exercising may not increase activity, new study finds

Just like attempts at influencing hairstyles or clothing can backfire, adults who try to guilt middle-schoolers into exercising won't get them to be any more active, according to a new study by University of Georgia researchers.

3 Sep 2015

Finding better treatment for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

In an effort to find a better treatment for spinal curvature in children and young people, the EU's "StimulAIS" project is focused on electrostimulation of muscles. Fraunhofer scientists worked with partners from industry and research to develop a prototype implant that would do the job.

3 Sep 2015

Cells expressing faulty CFTR channel to TNF-α can 'fix' cystic fibrosis cells

Scientific experiments examining what happens to the faulty channel protein that causes cystic fibrosis during inflammation have yielded unexpected and exciting results. The study, conducted by Sara Bitam and her colleagues at INSERM in France, has just passed peer review on open science publishing platform F1000Research.

3 Sep 2015

Children in northern Israel emergency departments receive equal pain treatment, regardless of ethnicity

Children with broken bones or joint dislocations in northern Israel emergency departments received equal pain treatment, regardless of their ethnicity or the ethnicity of the nurses who treated them, even during a period of armed conflict between the two ethnic groups.

3 Sep 2015

Scientists identify new mechanism for severe early infant epilepsy

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden have discovered a new explanation for severe early infant epilepsy. Mutations in the gene encoding the protein KCC2 can cause the disease, hereby confirming an earlier theory.

3 Sep 2015

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UCSF researchers lead $10 million research project on pediatric cancer

New Duke study finds that teenage kids are more economically rational than young adults

Children's Cancer Institute awarded NCI grant to fast-track new drugs into clinical trials for childhood cancer

CHAM, AECC receive $1.3 million NCI grant to advance more effective bone cancer treatments for children

Seizures are common in childhood brain tumor survivors

Smoke-free workplace, tax hikes discourage youth from taking up smoking

Multi-sensory stimulation during infancy does not guarantee successful learning, say researchers

Survival and health outcomes for extremely preterm infants improve over 20 years

AMRA, Pfizer collaborate to assess fat and muscle measurements to predict obesity, diabetes

Simple checklist to help parents determine their children’s school environment

Current school and university start times linked to poor learning, health problems

New treatments under development for adults with coeliac disease may also benefit children

Repeated exposure to anesthesia early in life causes long-term behavioral changes

Children's Hospital Los Angeles receives $2 million to spur research on brain, spinal cord tumors

Researchers examine use of MRI after birth to identify children at risk of later academic impairment

Guilting middle-schoolers into exercising may not increase activity, new study finds

Finding better treatment for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Cells expressing faulty CFTR channel to TNF-α can 'fix' cystic fibrosis cells

Children in northern Israel emergency departments receive equal pain treatment, regardless of ethnicity

Scientists identify new mechanism for severe early infant epilepsy

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