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UrduORLANDO, Fla. – While most women of childbearing age understand drinking alcohol while pregnant is harmful, they may be less skeptical about the safety of cannabidiol (CBD), even though there is no evidence to support that belief, suggests a study…
Tag: Pediatrics
Opioids often prescribed after cesarean delivery even when not needed
Studies suggest opioid use should be reduced during hospital stay and after discharge
Autism spectrum disorder risk linked to insufficient placental steroid
Single ALLO injection during pregnancy was enough to avert both the cerebellar abnormalities and the aberrant social behaviors in experimental models
American Academy of Pediatrics hosts National Conference
The annual conference takes place in New Orleans this year, where thousands of pediatric medical experts will converge to attend and present educational seminars, exhibits and presentations.
Researchers Identify Targeted Therapy That Can Help Children With Deadly Nerve Cancer
Mount Sinai researchers have identified a targeted therapy for adolescent patients with neuroblastoma, a deadly pediatric nerve cancer, who would otherwise have no treatment options, according to a study published in October in Cancer Cell.
Exposure to secondhand smoke associated with eye differences among children
What The Study Did: About 1,400 young children in Hong Kong had eye exams to see if those exposed to secondhand smoke at home had differences in choroidal thickness, a layer of the eye that contains blood vessels and connective…
Risk of brain damage and death in premature babies may reduce if born in specialist units
Extremely premature babies born in English hospitals with specialist neonatal intensive care units may have a reduced risk of brain damage and death, compared to premature babies born in hospitals without such specialist units. This is the finding of research,…
Tackling inequality could save millions of children
Children’s risk of dying before age 5 varies more than 40-fold
MSU and Spectrum Health researchers team up to find new treatments for ‘orphan diseases’
These understudied disorders afflict up to 25 million Americans
We have to do our utmost to ensure the best standard of care for pediatric kidney patients
The mission of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA) since its foundation in 1971 has been to provide training and to foster the exchange of knowledge among pediatric nephrologists and other health professionals who work in the field of pediatric…
Association between weight-loss surgery in women and risk of birth defects in infants
Bottom Line: Researchers used national registry data in Sweden to examine the risk of major birth defects in infants born to women who had gastric bypass surgery compared with infants born to women who didn’t have the surgery but were…
Repeated febrile convulsions linked to epilepsy and psychiatric disorders
Children who suffer repeated febrile convulsions have an increased risk of developing epilepsy and psychiatric disorders later in life; this is shown by a comprehensive register-based study from Aarhus University, Denmark
Breastfeeding disparities among us children by race/ethnicity
Bottom Line: Overall rates of breastfeeding increased from 2009 to 2015 but they varied by race/ethnicity in this observational study that used national survey data for nearly 168,000 infants in the United States. When breastfeeding rates took into account sociodemographic factors,…
Clinical trial tests varenicline to help adolescents, young adults quit smoking
Bottom Line: Many adult cigarette smokers start before they turn 21 and this randomized clinical trial of volunteer participants tested how effective the smoking-cessation medication varenicline was in helping adolescents and young adults to quit. The 157 volunteers seeking treatment to…
Emerging increase in electronic cigarette use by young adults between 2017-2018
Bottom Line: This research letter uses updated national survey data for 2018 to estimate how common electronic cigarette use is among adults 18 and older in the United States. The analysis included about 153,000 survey participants, of whom 55% were…
Sox9 reshapes the biliary tree in Alagille syndrome
Alagille syndrome is a rare pediatric genetic disorder that can affect the liver, heart, kidneys, blood vessels, skeleton and other tissues. One major characteristic of this condition is abnormalities in the ducts that carry bile, a yellowish liquid that helps…
BMC chosen for national demonstration to advance care models for people with complex needs
Boston – The Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family at Boston Medical Center has been chosen to participate in Advancing Integrated Models – AIM, a multi-site demonstration promoting innovative, person-centered strategies to improve care for adults and children…
Biomedical sciences researchers isolate gut bacteria that can prevent and cure rotavirus infection
ATLANTA–The presence of specific microbiota, or microorganisms that live in the digestive tract, can prevent and cure rotavirus infection, which is the leading cause of severe, life-threatening diarrhea in children worldwide, according to a new study by the Institute for…
Barriers to access to hearing aids for children
What The Study Did: Researchers looked at demographic, socioeconomic and clinical factors that were associated with timely access to hearing aids for children. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https:/ / media.…
Firearm-related eye injuries to patients under 21
Bottom Line: Researchers used data from a national registry of hospitalized trauma cases in the United States to examine patterns of firearm-related eye injuries among patients under age 21 from 2008 through 2014. There were about 8,700 eye injuries from…
@UCSDMedSchool Expert Available on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
Kerri Boutelle, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine departments of Pediatrics, Family Medicine and Public Health and Psychiatry, is one of the leading experts in research focusing on the causes, characterization, prevention and treatment of childhood…
Social determinant screening useful for families with pediatric sickle cell disease
Individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD) face the burdens of chronic illness and often racial disparities, both of which may increase vulnerability to adverse social determinants of health (SDoH). For children with SCD, living in poverty is associated with lower…
Differences in severity, health care utilization for firearm injuries, other penetrating trauma in kids
Bottom Line: Pediatric firearm injuries were associated with greater severity and health care utilization than other penetrating trauma suffered by children caused by cutting or piercing, such as with a knife. This observational study used national trauma data in the…
NCI-sponsored trial explores better treatment for brain tumors in children
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 8, 2019) Children with recurrent brain tumors or newly diagnosed, particularly aggressive tumors called diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas are being enrolled in the first study to examine the efficacy of a drug that inhibits an enzyme these…
Fish in early childhood reduces risk of disease
Occurrences of eczema, asthma greatly reduced
One in three young adults receive medication for opioid use disorder after overdose
BOSTON – A new study found that one in three young adults receive medication for opioid use disorder within 12 months of a non-fatal opioid overdose. The study, led by researchers at Boston Medical Center’s Grayken Center for Addiction, in…
Rice bran may help curb malnutrition, diarrhea for infants
Results from a clinical trial in Nicaragua and Mali
Research on firearm injuries to U.S. children gets 30 times less funding per death than other causes
Firearm injuries kill 2,500 American children each year. But the nation spends far less on studying what led to these injuries, and what might prevent and treat them, than it spends on other causes of death in children. In fact, on a per-death basis, funding for pediatric firearm research is 30 times lower than it would have to be to keep pace with research on other child health threats.
OTC medications commonly used in cases of attempted suicide by self-poisoning in youth
Rural areas experience a higher rate of reported cases, as well as a higher rate during school months.
Cincinnati Children’s receives NIH grant renewal on eosinophilic disorders
CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has received a 5-year, $7.57 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue leading a consortium of organizations from around the country that will conduct clinical research into eosinophilic…
Association of family relationships during adolescence with later depression risk
Bottom Line: Positive family relationships during adolescence appeared to be associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms from adolescence to midlife in this observational study of about 18,000 adolescents followed up until they were 32 to 42 years old. The…
How common is high blood pressure among children worldwide?
Bottom Line: This study, called a review and meta-analysis, combined the results of 47 articles published from 1994 to 2018 to estimate worldwide how common high blood pressure is among children and adolescents age 19 and younger. Authors report the…
Research on US child firearm injuries lags far behind studies of other causes of death
Study spotlights mismatch between number of deaths in children age 1 to 18, and research to understand, prevent and treat the reasons for those deaths
Young infants with fever may be more likely to develop infections
HERSHEY, Pa. — Infants with a high fever may be at increased risk for infections, according to research from Penn State College of Medicine. In a new study, researchers determined that for an infant less than eight weeks old, having…
Newborn baby deaths in Africa targeted in $68M initiative
NEST360° will work with sub-Saharan hospitals to transform infant care
$28m grant funds coordinating center for Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network
The federal agency that oversees a large network of research centers seeking cures for hundreds of rare, disabling and often fatal diseases has named Cincinnati Children’s as its new data management and coordinating center. The five-year, $28 million grant from…
Changes over time in cases of head/neck melanoma among kids, teens, young people in US, Canada
What The Study Did: This observational study looked at changes in new cases of head and neck melanoma among children, adolescents and young adults in the U.S. and Canada over a 20-year period from 1995 to 2014. To access the…
WVU researchers study link between low birth weight and cardiovascular risk
Low birth weight is linked not only to poor health outcomes at birth but also to chronic health conditions later in life. In a recent study, West Virginia University researcher Amna Umer explored how low birth weight correlates to cardiovascular…
Sex-based differences in the development of brain hubs involved in memory and emotion
Findings may help researchers understand why mental disorders present differently in males and females during adolescence
Physical activity and good fitness improve cardiac regulation in children
A recent Finnish study showed that more physically active and fit children have better cardiac regulation than less active and fit children. The study also showed that cardiac regulation was better especially in boys with better aerobic fitness and in…
A new route to blocking children’s bone cancer
A study in mice showed that reducing a particular hormone signal keeps the cancer from growing and spreading
Seafood consumption during pregnancy may improve attention capacity in children
Barcelona, 2 October 2019. A team of scientists from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by “la Caixa”, has studied the relationship between the consumption of various types of seafood during pregnancy and attention capacity in…
Preaching the benefits of vaccination in an increasingly skeptical world
During IDWeek2019, an annual gathering, infectious disease gurus present research insights about measles, Zika, influenza and other emerging infectious agents around the world
Exposure to BPA in the womb linked to wheezing and poorer lung function in children
Madrid, Spain: Pregnant women exposed to higher levels of the commonly used chemical bisphenol A (BPA) are more likely to have children who suffer with wheezing and poorer lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society International…
Room for improvement in drug dosage timing in hospitals
Too many hospitals provide medications according to the practicalities of their staffing schedules rather than the ideal dosing times for their patients, according to a new study led by experts at Cincinnati Children’s. The study, published Oct. 1 , 2019,…
Treatment with long term, low dose antibiotic could help people born with chronic lung condition
Madrid, Spain: Taking a low dose of the antibiotic azithromycin for six months reduces symptoms for patients with the chronic lung condition primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress. [1] PCD is…
Uncovering new therapeutic targets for airway inflammation in sickle cell disease
New Rochelle, NY, September 30, 2019–A new study by De, Agrawal, Morrone et al, chal-lenges the common notion that airway inflammation in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is secondary to asthma, even though the two disorders often coexist. In a recent…
Intimate partner violence is linked to suboptimal breastfeeding practices in poorer countries
Mothers exposed to intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries are less likely to initiate breastfeeding early and breastfeed exclusively in the first six months, according to a study published October 1 in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by…
Domestic violence reduces likelihood of mothers breastfeeding in developing countries
Mothers who have suffered from domestic violence are substantially less likely to follow recommended breastfeeding practices in low to middle-income countries, a new study shows
Babies have fewer respiratory infections if they have well-connected bacterial networks
Madrid, Spain: Microscopic bacteria, which are present in all humans, cluster together and form communities in different parts of the body, such as the gut, lungs, nose and mouth. Now, for the first time, researchers have shown the extent to…