In HIE, lower heart rate variability signals stressed newborns
Credit: Children's National BALTIMORE - In newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), lower heart rate variability correlates with autonomic manifestations of...
New AAP research examines US pediatric residents’ experience treating gun injuries
Recent tragic instances of suicide, urban violence and mass shootings have generated renewed concern among pediatricians regarding firearm violenceCredit: Pediatric...
New study measures the impact of text message reminders on HPV vaccine series completion
HPV vaccine is a critical cancer-protecting vaccine; yet only half of adolescents have received their needed dosesCredit: Pediatric Academic Societies...
New study aims to understand opioid fill patterns in children
Prescription opioid misuse results in numerous poor health consequences among children in the US; however, knowledge of recent opioid prescribing...
New research examines barriers to vaccination in immunocompromised children
Credit: Pediatric Academic Societies BALTIMORE - A new study examines the barriers to vaccination of immunocompromised children (ICC). Findings from...
The dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within 50 years
New analysis by academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), part of the University of Oxford, predicts the dead may...
Pediatricians and nurse practitioners report using strategies to improve HPV vaccination
Credit: Pediatric Academic Societies BALTIMORE - Pediatricians and nurse practitioners report using several strategies to improve human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination,...
Survey of pediatricians and family physicians assesses HPV vaccine delivery practices
Despite a recommendation for routine HPV vaccination of adolescents over 10 years, vaccination series completion rates remain less than 50%...
Large genome-wide association study is first to focus on both child and adult asthma
Most significant genes at key loci are specific to childhood onset of asthma Asthma, a common respiratory disease that causes...
Study to examine impact of therapy animals on children with cancer
Credit: Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt The sight of a dog in a therapy vest trotting down a hospital hallway or being petted...
Some children find it harder to understand what strangers are saying
New research by New York University Steinhardt Associate Professor Susannah Levi finds that children with poorer language skills are at...
Gene repair improves memory and seizures in adult autism model
Credit: Scott Wiseman for Scripps Research JUPITER, Fla. - April 29, 2019 - A new study challenges the presumption that...
Intervention increases healthy behavior among South African adolescents
New research from the University of Pennsylvania found that a specially designed health intervention given to South African youth improved...
No safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy, suggest researchers
Brain connectivity issues found in children who have experienced prenatal alcohol exposure.Credit: Gao Lin and Linda Sommerlade WASHINGTON, D.C., April...
Princeton geoscientists find new fallout from ‘the collision that changed the world’
A Princeton-led research team has created an unprecedented record of ocean nitrogen and oxygen levels from 70 million years ago...
TET proteins regulate factors essential for normal antibody production
New study sheds light on what goes awry in malignancies marked by TET mutationCredit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA...
US Southeast Atlantic coast facing high threat of sea-level rise in the next 10 years
Credit: University of Central Florida New research shows 75 percent of the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Central Florida...
Nanoparticles take a fantastic, magnetic voyage
Tiny robots powered by magnetic fields could help drug-delivery nanoparticles reach their targets CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT engineers have designed...
Gene-editing technology may produce resistant virus in cassava plant
An international team of biologists urge careful use of technology in research and flag potential biosafety risks. The use of...
Ready for refit: Navy-owned research vessel getting suped-up for service
Credit: Photo by Scripps Institution of Oceanography ARLINGTON, Va.--Like a classic car being restored, the research vessel (R/V) Roger Revelle...
