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‘What happens three months from now?’ Mental health after Georgia High School shooting

About an hour after gunfire erupted at Apalachee High School, ambulances started arriving at nearby Northeast Georgia Medical Center Barrow with two students and two adults suffering from panic attacks and extreme anxiety, not bullet wounds.

13 Sep 2024

Ice Age teens experienced puberty stages similar to modern adolescents

Landmark new research shows Ice Age teens from 25,000 years ago went through similar puberty stages as modern-day adolescents.

12 Sep 2024

Study links higher screen time with poorer language skills in young children

Screens have become ubiquitous in our daily lives - which means they've also become part of children's lives too.

12 Sep 2024

Early lifestyle changes lead to lasting impacts on metabolism

A new study from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) uncovers how early lifestyle changes can have long-lasting impacts.

12 Sep 2024

Swift management of gestational diabetes lowers child obesity rates

Swiftly achieving glycemic control after a diagnosis of gestational diabetes can bring the baby's risk obesity in childhood down to a level similar to that of children whose mothers did not have gestational diabetes, new research being presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Madrid, Spain (9-13 September), has found.

12 Sep 2024

$3.5M grant funds major study on health disparities linked to childhood factors

In the United States, wealthy people live on average 10 years longer than poor people, and Black people can expect to live an average of 5 years less than White people.

11 Sep 2024

$1.2 million NIH grant may help unravel the interplay between Down syndrome and myeloid leukemia

A four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health may help researchers find new clues to the interplay between Down syndrome (DS) and myeloid leukemia (ML).

11 Sep 2024

Fearing the worst, schools deploy armed police to thwart gun violence

A false alarm that a gunman was roaming one Catholic high school and then another in March 2023 touched off frightening evacuations and a robust police response in the city. It also prompted the diocese to rethink what constitutes a model learning environment.

11 Sep 2024

Light wave technology offers breakthrough in monitoring babies' brain activity

A new technology which uses harmless light waves to measure activity in babies' brains has provided the most complete picture to date of brain functions like hearing, vision and cognitive processing outside a conventional, restrictive brain scanner, in a new study led by researchers at UCL and Birkbeck.

10 Sep 2024

Obesity medication liraglutide safe and effective in children under 12, research finds

The obesity medication liraglutide is safe and effective in children aged 6 to <12 years, new research being presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Madrid, Spain (9-13 September), and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), has found.

10 Sep 2024

COVID-19 lockdowns accelerated brain aging in adolescent girls, researchers find

Researchers discovered that COVID-19 lockdowns accelerated cortical thinning in adolescent brains, with females experiencing more significant and widespread changes than males, indicating a higher developmental impact on female brains.

10 Sep 2024

Natural probiotic present in gut shortly after birth

Findings on neonatal gut microbiota reveal key Bifidobacteria species driving microbiome assembly and their potential in developing personalized probiotics.

10 Sep 2024

High linoleic acid intake during pregnancy may harm fetal growth and raise obesity risk

High maternal linoleic acid intake during pregnancy may impact fetal development and increase the risk of obesity and inflammation in offspring. However, more research is needed to fully understand these effects in humans.

10 Sep 2024

Early exposure to air pollution associated with lower economic earnings in adulthood

Higher exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) during infancy was associated with lower economic earnings in adulthood in a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and European University of Rome.

9 Sep 2024

ANNs can identify lung disease in preterm infants by analyzing sleep breathing patterns

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) can be trained to detect lung disease in premature babies by analyzing their breathing patterns while they sleep, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Vienna, Austria.

9 Sep 2024

Cell-free RNA analysis enhances early detection of pediatric inflammatory conditions

RNA is expelled from cells via cell death or active release, and can then find its way into blood plasma. A Cornell University-led collaboration has developed machine learning models that use these cell-free molecular RNA dregs to diagnose pediatric inflammatory conditions that are difficult to differentiate.

9 Sep 2024

Pandemic accelerates brain maturation in adolescents, study finds

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Child Health News

‘What happens three months from now?’ Mental health after Georgia High School shooting

Ice Age teens experienced puberty stages similar to modern adolescents

Study links higher screen time with poorer language skills in young children

Early lifestyle changes lead to lasting impacts on metabolism

Swift management of gestational diabetes lowers child obesity rates

$3.5M grant funds major study on health disparities linked to childhood factors

$1.2 million NIH grant may help unravel the interplay between Down syndrome and myeloid leukemia

Fearing the worst, schools deploy armed police to thwart gun violence

Light wave technology offers breakthrough in monitoring babies' brain activity

Obesity medication liraglutide safe and effective in children under 12, research finds

COVID-19 lockdowns accelerated brain aging in adolescent girls, researchers find

Natural probiotic present in gut shortly after birth

High linoleic acid intake during pregnancy may harm fetal growth and raise obesity risk

Early exposure to air pollution associated with lower economic earnings in adulthood

ANNs can identify lung disease in preterm infants by analyzing sleep breathing patterns

Cell-free RNA analysis enhances early detection of pediatric inflammatory conditions

Pandemic accelerates brain maturation in adolescents, study finds

Young people with chronic pain more likely to have clinical anxiety or depression

UCSF researchers move closer to predicting sudden infant death syndrome

New study finds skincare products could expose children to harmful phthalates

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