Children

A recent study published in Nutrients examined daily breakfast consumption (DBC) patterns in adolescents from 23 European countries. Study: The Correlation between Adolescent Daily Breakfast Consumption and Socio-Demographic: Trends in 23 European Countries Participating in the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study (2002–2018). Image Credit: K2 PhotoStudio/Shutterstock.com Background Breakfast is vital for a healthy diet.
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For the first time worldwide, in yet another breakthrough by the world-leading research team at the University of Gothenburg, a child has been born following a uterus transplantation achieved solely by robot-assisted surgery on both donor and recipient. The baby, a boy measuring 49 centimeters (19.3 inches) and weighing 3 100 grams (6 pounds 13
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The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation (PCRF), a nonprofit focused on transforming pediatric cancer care by accelerating research breakthroughs, today announced the 19 recipients of its 2023 research grants. The researchers will receive $1,730,000 in funding to explore new and safer treatments for pediatric cancers. Of the recipients, six scientists are receiving PCRF funding for the
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A study led by the National Institutes of Health’s RECOVER Initiative and supported by NYU Langone Health, home to the effort’s Clinical Science Core (CSC), provides an expanded working definition of long COVID. This study is an important step toward defining long COVID beyond any one individual symptom. This definition—which may evolve over time—will serve
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In a recent study published in the Nutrients Journal, researchers investigated the association between the culinary skills of undergraduate students and their chances of being obese or overweight. Study: Low Cooking Skills Are Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Undergraduates. Image Credit: DGLimages/Shutterstock.com Background Culinary skills, which the ability to plan meals, shop for ingredients, and prepare
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Cancers often release molecules into the bloodstream that pathologically alter the liver, shifting it to an inflammatory state, causing fat buildup and impairing its normal detoxifying functions, according to a study from investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. This discovery illuminates one of cancer’s more insidious survival mechanisms and suggests the possibility of new tests and
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How does development take place over the life of a human being from the moment of conception? A fascinating new paper published in Global Pediatrics provides a bird’s-eye view of the significant moments of this process, covering the first thousand days of life. Study: The key 1000 life-changing days. Image Credit: bookzv/Shutterstock.com Introduction From the beginning of
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In a recent study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, researchers explain the healthy eating index (HEI) for toddlers between 12 and 23 months of age, which reflects the guidelines and fundamental features of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) in the United States. Study: Development of the Healthy Eating Index-Toddlers-2020.
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Sara Young packed a bag of essentials, gathered her kids, and fled her home to a refuge: an old, green house that blended in with the neighborhood in this southwestern Montana city. Nothing about the house identified it as a domestic violence shelter — it was hidden in plain sight. Young wasn’t allowed to give
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In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers explore the effects of flavored e-cigarette bans on the use of e-cigarettes. Study: The impact of flavored e-cigarette bans on e-cigarette use in three US states. Image Credit: Oleg GawriloFF / Shutterstock.com *Important notice: medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be
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For children with asthma residing in urban areas, the neighborhood they live in is a stronger predictor of whether they will have exacerbations (asthma attacks) than their family’s income or their parents’ level of educational attainment, according to research published at the ATS 2023 International Conference. Research has shown that social determinants of health underlie
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New research, published online today in the American Journal of Psychiatry, provides the most robust and comprehensive evidence to date that children exposed to early psychosocial deprivation benefit substantially from family-based care. Senior author Kathryn L. Humphreys, Ph.D., discussed this work today at a special briefing during the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric
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The human gut harbors millions of microbes, primarily bacteria, which have positive and adverse health effects. A recent Environmental Research journal paper evaluated how indoor microbiomes and metabolites affect the human gut microbiota. Study: Impact of environmental characteristics on children’s gut microbiota – A pilot study in assessing the role of indoor microbiome and metabolites. Image Credit: CI
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According to a new study conducted by the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry of the University of Turku and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, the amount of new psychiatric diagnoses by Finnish specialist services increased by nearly a fifth among children and adolescents in Finland after the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Children’s Cancer Research Fund has awarded $250,000 to an innovative new approach to treating leukemia – blood cancer – being developed at UVA Cancer Center. The grant to John H. Bushweller, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, is part of the national nonprofit’s efforts to accelerate the development of new and better
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Scientists have been working tirelessly to contain the pandemic of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). During global surveillance for SARS-CoV-2, enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) incidence was detected in many regions worldwide in 2021, indicating the possibility of a future outbreak of EV-D68 infection.  In late summer 2022,
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Earlier research suggests that women with a higher body mass index (BMI) feed their infants for shorter durations. The underlying reasons for this observation remain unclear. A recent study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition attempted to explore this relationship and elicit some mediating factors. ​​​​​​​Study: Mediators of the association between maternal body mass
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Australian nanomedicine researchers have come up with a new approach to solving a decades-old clinical problem: getting treatment drugs to act selectively on cancer cells in the body. Published this week in the high-impact journal Science Translational Medicine, the research paves the way to safer and more effective treatment options for children with aggressive blood
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