October 1, 2024 by Lori Solomon Children with primary nocturnal enuresis may have vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency as well as vitamin B12 deficiency, according to a study published online June 10 in Annals of Medicine. Hoda Atef Abdelsattar Ibrahim, from Cairo University, and colleagues examined the prevalence of vitamin D and vitamin B12 deficiencies...
Tag: <span>Pediatrics</span>
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Study finds large variation in how girls grow after their first period
September 27, 2024 by University of Gothenburg There is unexpectedly large variation in height growth in girls after their first period. Every second girl grows either more or less in length than the 6–8 centimeters that is considered standard. This has been shown in a study conducted at the University of Gothenburg. The aim of...
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A mysterious syndrome that paralyzed kids seems to have disappeared, but why?
September 16, 2024 by Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA syndrome that paralyzed children in Colorado and across the nation seems to have disappeared almost as mysteriously as it arrived, leaving scientists to figure out what happened and survivors to adapt as they grow up. Doctors first identified cases of unexplained muscle...
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Saliva indicates severity of recurrent respiratory infections in children
August 8, 2024 by Radboud University Senior author Lilly Verhagen, pediatric infectious disease specialist and immunologist at Radboudumc. Credit: RadboudumcA saliva test can more accurately indicate the severity of recurrent respiratory infections in children than the standard blood test. If saliva contains too few broadly protective antibodies, a child is more likely to suffer from...
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DEEP BREATH VIDEO CAN CALM A CHILD IN 1 MINUTE – pediatrics – clinical practice
It’s one of the first things parents and teachers tell a child who gets upset: “Take a deep breath.” But research into the effect of deep breathing on the body’s stress response has overwhelmingly ignored young children—and studies done with adults typically take place in a university lab, making them even less applicable to children’s actual...
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Compared to placebo, vitamin D has no benefit for severe asthma attacks
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CHIEF OF PEDIATRIC PULMONARY MEDICINE AT UPMC CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH, AND THE NIELS K. JERNE CHAIR OF PEDIATRICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE view more CREDIT: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Aug. 25, 2020 – Contrary to earlier results, vitamin D supplements do not prevent severe asthma attacks in at-risk children,...
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Why young and female patients don’t respond as well to cancer immunotherapy
Tumor cells in younger and female patients accumulate cancer-causing mutations that are more poorly presented to the immune system, better enabling tumors to escape detection and clearance UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO DUE TO A PROCESS KNOWN AS IMMUNO-EDITING, YOUNGER AND FEMALE PATIENTS WITH CANCER HAVE CANCER-CAUSING GENETIC MUTATIONS THAT ARE LEAST VISIBLE TO...
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Researchers show children are silent spreaders of SARS-CoV-2
by Massachusetts General Hospital In the most comprehensive study of COVID-19 pediatric patients to date, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Mass General Hospital for Children (MGHfC) researchers provide critical data showing that children play a larger role in the community spread of COVID-19 than previously thought. In a study of 192 children ages 0-22, 49...
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COVID’S SPREAD IN THE US MAY HAVE STARTED IN 2019
Patients with undiagnosed flu symptoms who actually had COVID-19 last winter were among thousands of undetected early cases of the disease at the beginning of this year. In a new paper in the journal EClinicalMedicine, epidemiological researchers estimated COVID-19 to be far more widespread in Wuhan, China and Seattle, Washington weeks ahead of lockdown measures...
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Non-fasting blood test can help screen youth for prediabetes and diabetes
Study suggests the hemoglobin A1c test can identify youth at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes and associated cardiovascular problems JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH A simple blood test that does not require overnight fasting has been found to be an accurate screening tool for identifying youth at risk for type...
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