Pediatrics
Bringing the forest to kids' daycare may boost young immune systems
(HealthDay)—Want to give your kids an immune system boost? Try letting them play in the dirt more often, a new study suggests.
Oct 15, 2020
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News tagged with small children
Medical research
Personalized mini-organs could offer treatment hope for children with intestinal failure
Pioneering scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) have grown human intestinal grafts using stem cells from patient tissue ...
Sep 8, 2020
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Inflammatory disorders
Children with asthma could benefit from prescribing according to genetic differences
Selecting treatments according to genetic differences could help children and teenagers with asthma, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.
Sep 8, 2020
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Pediatrics
Specific bacteria help explain stunted growth in malnourished children
Many children treated for childhood malnutrition in developing countries never fully recover. They suffer from stunted growth, immune system dysfunction and poor cognitive development that typically cause long-term health ...
Jul 29, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Research on brain swelling in children with cerebral malaria reveals potential new treatment approach
Through investigating the causes of brain swelling in cerebral malaria—a devastating parasitic disease that is fatal for one in five children—scientists have found a potential new treatment approach that could be safely ...
Jun 25, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Britain divided over reopening schools as virus rules ease
David Waugh is putting down barrier tape and spraying yellow lines on the ground outside the main door of his school near Manchester.
May 23, 2020
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Neuroscience
Overlooked caregivers? Children, teens help care for parents with ALS
Children and teens with family members with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, help with bathing, dressing, eating and all types of caregiving activities, yet they may not have training or enough information about the ...
Mar 18, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New guide helps children be emotionally prepared for school
Some children enter school ready to learn. Others arrive with behavioral issues that limit their ability to succeed.
Feb 17, 2020
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Pediatrics
Choking deaths in US children drop by 75% in past 50 years
Children's deaths from choking on small objects dropped by 75 percent from 1968 to 2017, according to a report published in JAMA.
Nov 26, 2019
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Looming crisis for older family carers
Increasing numbers of older family carers, some in their 80s and 90s, are providing care to support adult children with severe learning disabilities or autism, according to a significant new report published today (Wednesday ...
Nov 22, 2019
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