By Melinda Wenner Moyer on March 30, 2021 Credit: Inna Vlasova Getty Images As adults around the world scramble to get vaccinated against COVID-19, pharmaceutical companies are turning their attention toward one quarter of the population that still has no available shots: kids. Several pharmaceutical companies are doing clinical trials in adolescents or young children. Pfizer was already testing its vaccine in...
Health officials have provided basic ways on how to protect ourselves from the novel coronavirus. These include sanitizing or washing our hands, and wearing a mask when in public. Always remember that you and your child should wash or sanitize hands as soon as possible after you’re done playing outside. As much as possible, avoid...
FEBRUARY 4TH, 2020 POSTED BY ALICE SCOTT-WARWICK There’s a link between children’s sleep duration and depression, anxiety, impulsive behavior, and poor cognitive performance, researchers report. In a new paper in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers examine the relationship between sleep duration and brain structure in 11,000 children ages 9-11 from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development dataset. The...
by Elena Merenda and Nikki Martyn, The Conversation Many children today know Santa Claus as that jolly man in red who delivers presents to children on Christmas Eve. But the legend of Santa stretches back hundreds of years to a monk named St. Nicholas. Popular accounts say St. Nicholas gave away his inheritance and travelled the...
It’s not just sugar — kids are exposed to a variety of sweeteners that are bad for their health. There are at least eight sweeteners that the AAP wants parents to know about. These sweeteners often hide in foods that are advertised as having less sugar. Parents looking for alternatives to sugar should be careful when selecting foods that promise less sugar. You may be getting less sugar, but your family could be eating...
July 19, 2018, by Amy Norton, HealthDay Reporter (HealthDay)—Young adults raised by lesbian moms show the same mental well-being as those who grew up with heterosexual parents, a new study suggests. The findings, published in the July 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, come from the largest, longest-running study to track the development...
Finding a reliable blood marker could offer help to doctors and parents, study suggests COLUMBUS, Ohio – A blood test may have the potential to speed accurate diagnosis – and proper treatment – of bipolar disorder in children, new research suggests. Researchers at The Ohio State University found that children with bipolar disorder had higher...
Finding a reliable blood marker could offer help to doctors and parents, study suggests COLUMBUS, Ohio – A blood test may have the potential to speed accurate diagnosis – and proper treatment – of bipolar disorder in children, new research suggests. Researchers at The Ohio State University found that children with bipolar disorder had higher...
