Children born with a common genetic condition, familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), are at increased risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) early in life. Despite long-standing national guidelines, cholesterol ...
Nov 18, 2020
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In a comprehensive review of research studies looking at infections from SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—in infants less than three months old, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that the majority of these ...
Nov 18, 2020
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A new Vanderbilt-designed prediction model may make it easier to determine which infants will go on to develop neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a drug withdrawal syndrome in newborns that occurs after exposure to opioids ...
Nov 13, 2020
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As many as 70% of very premature infants (born earlier than 32 weeks gestation) show signs of white matter abnormalities at birth. But only some of those infants go on to develop cognitive, language, motor, or behavioral ...
Sep 30, 2020
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Researchers at University of California San Diego report that while Kawasaki disease (KD) occurs in clusters, the traits, and thus the triggers of the inflammatory disease vary among clusters. The findings are published in ...
Sep 29, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Lockdowns gave people lots to growl about. Their dogs may have felt a bit more aggressive, too.
Sep 9, 2020
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With many questions remaining around how children spread COVID-19, Children's National Hospital researchers set out to improve the understanding of how long it takes pediatric patients with the virus to clear it from their ...
Sep 3, 2020
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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 ...
Aug 20, 2020
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Greater rates of Colorado's children are going to the pediatric emergency department as a result of dog bites during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recently published commentary article in the Journal of Pediatrics. ...
Aug 11, 2020
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(HealthDay)—A 90-second animated video can reduce parents' interest in receiving antibiotics for their child's respiratory infection, according to a study published online June 15 in The Journal of Pediatrics.
Aug 3, 2020
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