Ask the Pediatrician: Can families with unvaccinated children gather safely for the holidays this year?
Q: My children are too young to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Is it safe to get together with our extended family for Christmas?
Dec 13, 2021
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Q: My children are too young to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Is it safe to get together with our extended family for Christmas?
Dec 13, 2021
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A recent study looked at marijuana and alcohol use in people between the ages of 18 and 24. It's probably not surprising that the results show a drastic increase in alcohol consumption in people just over 21; after all, that's ...
Jul 7, 2015
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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is increasingly recognized as a significant complication caused by COVID-19 infection. Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children's of Alabama studied the epidemiology ...
Mar 31, 2022
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The first large study to report the effect of bodyweight on risk of worse outcomes from COVID-19 across the full range of body-mass index (BMI) is published today in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal.
May 3, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Young adults with diabetes are most likely to report having missed medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic and have lower intention of receiving COVID-19 vaccination, according to research published in the ...
Nov 19, 2021
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Young adolescents' judgements on how risky a situation might be are most influenced by what other teenagers think, while most other age groups are more influenced by adults' views, finds new UCL research.
Mar 27, 2015
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Young females in their late teens are more likely than other Australians to be victims of sexual assault, and young males of the same age group are most likely to be recorded as perpetrators, according to police-recorded ...
Aug 28, 2020
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The number of young New Zealanders aged 15 to 17 who vape every day has tripled in two years, from 2% in 2018–19 to 6% in 2020–21, according to the most recent New Zealand Health Survey. For young adults, aged 18 to 24, ...
Jun 27, 2022
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The first systematic review of how the severity of infectious diseases changes with age suggests that the human immune system might start to lose the ability to protect against infections earlier than previously thought, ...
Oct 15, 2020
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Men and women who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2D) aged 40 or younger are far more likely to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) and die prematurely than those under 40 in the general population, according to new ...
Sep 6, 2022
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