Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain My nine-year-old grandson recently told me the bits of spinach in my tortellini soup were his “worst nightmare.” A bit over-dramatic, don’t you think? This same…
Tag: Pediatrics
Survey finds significant gaps in UK public awareness of telltale cancer signs in kids and teens
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There are significant gaps in the UK public’s awareness of the telltale signs and symptoms of cancer in children and teens, with just a third of…
Study reveals how young children’s immune systems tame SARS-CoV-2
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research helps explain why young children have lower rates of severe COVID-19 than adults. A study of infants and young children found those who acquired…
Texas A&M students develop device to combat kidney failure in newborns
Sponsored by Texas Children’s Hospital, Team 11, known as Rapid Cuff, (top row, from left) Amelia Flug, Hannah Bludau and Haley Phelan, (bottom row, from left) Reagan Isbell and Naomi…
Impacts of climate change threaten children’s mental health starting before birth
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Climate change poses a particular threat to children and youth, starting before birth and potentially derailing the normal development of physiological systems, cognitive abilities and emotional…
Big rise seen in gun deaths, overdoses among U.S. kids
America’s kids are safer now than a decade ago when it comes to many types of injury, with two glaring exceptions: drugs and guns. That’s the crux of a new…
A decade of data describes nationwide youth mental health crisis
Credit: CC0 Public Domain When Tanner Bommersbach, M.D., and a team of Mayo Clinic researchers analyzed national records of pediatric emergency department visits, they provided essential data to describe the…
Infant immune systems found to have unique and effective responses to SARS-CoV-2
Credit: Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.08.044 Research led by the University of Tübingen, Germany, along with partners at Stanford University, Emory University and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, U.S., has…
Calls for verbal abuse of children by adults to be formally recognized as form of child maltreatment
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new systematic review by researchers at UCL and Wingate University has highlighted the importance of identifying childhood verbal abuse by adults as a standalone subtype…
Clinical trial recommends methotrexate for children with severe atopic dermatitis
A study led by King’s College London compared the safety and efficacy of ciclosporin with methotrexate in children and young people with severe atopic dermatitis, a debilitating skin condition. They…
