Children exposed to intimate partner violence twice as likely to have poorer health
Credit: Jonathan Borba A new study has found up to half of all children with language difficulties and mental and ...
Tag: Pediatrics
Brushing away oral health disparities in America’s rural children
Children living in rural America are less likely to receive preventive dental care than their urban counterparts, according to a ...
Biomedical sciences researcher gets $2.3 million grant to study inflammation in infectious diseases
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Jian-Dong Li, professor and director of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, ...
Diagnostic yield of non-contrast pituitary MRI for pediatric pathologies
2021 ARRS Virtual Annual Meeting Scientific Electronic Exhibit found non-contrast pituitary MRI for central precocious puberty, growth hormone deficiency, short ...
‘Information theory’ recruited to help scientists find cancer genes
Field of mathematics devoted to how information is measured, stored and transmitted uncovers possible key gene that spurs common childhood ...
Scientists at IRB Barcelona discover the cause of neurodegeneration in Lafora disease
Credit: IRB Barcelona Lafora disease is an inherited neurodegenerative condition that initially develops with seizures in adolescence and evolves with ...
The perfect fit: A ‘shoe-in’ for a great start to school
Credit: UniSA As the back-to-school rush begins, podiatry experts at the University of South Australia are encouraging parents to get ...
Autism develops differently in girls than boys, new research suggests
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications New research has shed light on how autism-spectrum disorder (ASD) manifests in the brains ...
Bacteria that cause periodontitis are transmitted from parents to children
A study led by researchers at the University of Campinas reinforces the need for prevention and follow-up treatment starting in ...
1 in 4 parents give youth sports low rankings for enforcement of COVID-19 guidelines
The majority of parents feel informed and confident about pandemic protocols as kids resume sports but some are proceeding with ...
Antidepressant use in pregnancy tied to affective disorders in offspring; no causal link
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System New York, NY - Major depressive disorder is highly prevalent, with one in five people ...
New pig brain maps facilitate human neuroscience discoveries
Credit: University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences URBANA, Ill. - When scientists need to understand the ...
Lifetime monitoring after infant cardiac surgery may reduce adult hypertension risk
Credit: Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons as released by Mariana Ruiz Villarreal, LadyofHats In a medical records study covering thousands ...
Autism gene study finds widespread impact to brain’s growth signaling network
Mutations to Dyrk1a gene lead to brain undergrowth; an existing drug rescues the condition in newborn miceCredit: Damon Page Lab, ...
A new mouse model gave surprising findings about Folling Disease
Credit: Ellen Johanne Jarli In Norway, all newborn children are tested for 25 rare genetic diseases through the Newborn Screening ...
UCI-led team awarded $2.3 million as part of the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine
Precision medicine used to study the impacts of adverse and unpredictable experiences on children's neurodevelopmentCredit: UCI School of Medicine Irvine, ...
Gut microbiota in cesarean-born babies catches up
Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg and Malin Arnesson Infants born by cesarean section have a relatively meager array of bacteria ...
Stem cell transplants prevent relapses of most common childhood cancer
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Children and young adults who receive CAR T-cell therapy for the most common childhood ...
New study supports the effectiveness of the ForsythKids school-based dental program for reducing untreated tooth decay
Credit: Forsyth Institute In a longitudinal study published earlier this month in the Journal of the American Dental Association, researchers ...
Pumping the ‘brain brake’ in pediatric anxiety
UC researchers find ways to predict treatment outcomes for adolescent anxiety using brain imagingCredit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati As with ...