by Kaiser Permanente Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A review of more than 245,000 doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines given to young children (most of them age 4 and younger) found no indications of serious side effects. The study, published June 6 in Pediatrics, was led by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in partnership with the Centers...
by University of Michigan Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It’s a scene many parents have experienced—just as they’re trying to cook dinner, take a phone call or run an errand, their child has a meltdown. And sometimes, handing a fussy preschooler a digital device seems to offer a quick fix. But this calming strategy could be linked to...
The CHILDhood Asthma Risk Tool (CHART) can identify children at high risk for asthma at as early as 3 years of age, according to a study published online Oct. 6 in JAMA Network Open. Myrtha E. Reyna, from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and colleagues developed and evaluated the use of a symptom-based screening...
by Tufts University Chlorine treated water leaves children’s healthy gut microbiomes unchanged. Credit: Amy Pickering More than 2,000 children die every day around the world simply because they lack clean drinking water, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Engineers, including those at Tufts, have devised simple, low-cost ways to purify drinking water in low-income countries...
by Leigh Hopper, University of Southern California Credit: Psychiatry Research (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114473 Brain scans of children ages 9–10 with a type of eating disorder that causes uncontrollable overeating showed differences in gray matter density compared to their unaffected peers, according to a USC-led study. Binge eating disorder, which affects about 3–5% of the U.S. population, is...
NIH/NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES IMAGE: PEANUTS IN A BOWL. CREDIT: NIAID A clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that giving peanut oral immunotherapy to highly peanut-allergic children ages 1 to 3 years safely desensitized most of them to peanut and induced remission of peanut allergy in one-fifth....
JANUARY 7, 2022 by The Ottawa Hospital Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ontario saw nine times more emergency department (ED) visits per month for cannabis poisonings in young children under the age of 10 after Canada legalized recreational cannabis, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. While single hospitals have reported on child cannabis poisonings...
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL COLORADO IMAGE: LEAD STUDY AUTHOR JORDANA HOPPE, MD, A PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGIST WITH CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL COLORADO AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PEDIATRICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ON THE ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS. CREDIT: CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL COLORADO Children ages two to five who have the most common form of cystic fibrosis (CF), caused...
