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Study finds excessive screen time exposure among children

A study conducted by the University at Albany, the National Institutes of Health and New York University Langone Medical Center uncovered several new findings about the amount of time children spend watching television or using a computer or mobile device.

26 Nov 2019

Researchers find pupillary changes in high-school athletes after high-acceleration head impacts

Researchers from the University of Michigan found significant pupillary changes in high-school football athletes after they had sustained a high-acceleration head impact.

26 Nov 2019

California’s working mothers get stronger support for workplace lactation

Katie Woody's firstborn, Oliver, struggled from birth to latch onto her breast, so she had little choice but to pump her milk and feed it to him from a bottle.

26 Nov 2019

Screen time could be starting in infancy, says NIH study

Children nowadays might be risking their developmental health by excessive exposure to screen time. The average time that children stare at the idiot box, or other monitors, including a computer or mobile device, was almost an hour a day at 12 months of age, increasing to over 150 minutes (2.5 hours) by the age of 3 years.

25 Nov 2019

Researchers discover cellular origins of pediatric brain tumors

A research team led by Dr. Claudia Kleinman, an investigator at the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, together with Dr. Nada Jabado, of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, and Dr. Michael Taylor, of The Hospital for Sick Children, discovered that several types of highly aggressive and, ultimately, fatal pediatric brain tumors originate during brain development.

25 Nov 2019

High school athletes with a history of concussions may be at increased risk for suicide

Concussion, the most common form of traumatic brain injury, has been linked to an increased risk of depression and suicide in adults.

25 Nov 2019

BB guns dangerous for kids as they increase risk of eye injuries

Often marketed as toys, non-powder firearms like BB guns, pellet guns, airsoft, and paintball guns are dangerous for children and teenagers due to a high risk of eye injury.

25 Nov 2019

Study finds increasing rate of eye injuries from nonpowder firearms among children

Nonpowder firearms have long been marketed to children and teenagers as toys or "starter" firearms and include BB, pellet, airsoft and paintball guns.

25 Nov 2019

Parents using marijuana could raise risk of addictions among offspring

Researchers from Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital at Belmont, MA have found that parents using marijuana could be raising the risk of their children picking up addictions such as marijuana, tobacco, alcohol and even opiods misuse. Their study titled, “Associations of Parental Marijuana Use With Offspring Marijuana, Tobacco, and Alcohol Use and Opioid Misuse,” was published in the latest issue of the journal JAMA Network last week.

24 Nov 2019

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital receives 2019 Guardian of Excellence Award

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is pleased to announce it has been named a 2019 Guardian of Excellence Award winner by Press Ganey.

22 Nov 2019

Most adolescents exposed to marijuana marketing either on social media or print media

Despite restrictions on paid advertising cannabis on social media, most teenagers reported seeing marijuana marketing on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, according to a public health study authored by University of Massachusetts Amherst injury prevention researcher Jennifer Whitehill.

22 Nov 2019

Researchers study the effects of hyperoxia on the lung development of germ-free newborn mice

Charitharth Vivek Lal, M.D., and University of Alabama at Birmingham colleagues have used a novel and first-of-its-kind newborn mouse model to study the effect of high oxygen concentrations, or hyperoxia, on lung development of newborn mice that are germ-free -- meaning no microbes colonizing their lungs.

21 Nov 2019

Study: 34% of high schools in the U.S. do not have access to athletic trainer services

Despite ongoing tragedies in sports as well as research from a host of sources – including the American Academy of Pediatrics – which state schools with athletic trainers (ATs) have lower injury rates, a study released today showed that 34% of public and private high schools, have no access to athletic trainers in the United States.

21 Nov 2019

Pediatrics News and Research

Latest Pediatrics News and Research

Study finds excessive screen time exposure among children

Researchers find pupillary changes in high-school athletes after high-acceleration head impacts

California’s working mothers get stronger support for workplace lactation

Screen time could be starting in infancy, says NIH study

Researchers discover cellular origins of pediatric brain tumors

High school athletes with a history of concussions may be at increased risk for suicide

BB guns dangerous for kids as they increase risk of eye injuries

Study finds increasing rate of eye injuries from nonpowder firearms among children

Parents using marijuana could raise risk of addictions among offspring

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital receives 2019 Guardian of Excellence Award

Most adolescents exposed to marijuana marketing either on social media or print media

Researchers study the effects of hyperoxia on the lung development of germ-free newborn mice

Study: 34% of high schools in the U.S. do not have access to athletic trainer services

Study provides more specific data on child development milestones

Nurse home visiting programs provide long-term benefits for infants, first-time mothers

Integration of behavioral health services with pediatric primary care shows promise

Shared reading between parents and young children associated with stronger vocabulary skills

UTHealth receives $3.3 million to expand Developing Talkers literacy program

New studies point to benefits of weight-loss surgery for teens with severe obesity

For newborns with hearing loss, screening opens window to a world of sound

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