New approach to milk allergies promises breakthrough

September 21, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Skin prick test (SPT) levels of patients who had treatment success and treatment failure in both cohorts. Milk ladder in blue and Strick avoidance in green. Credit: Pediatric Allergy and

Lasting effects of pretend play in early childhood

September 21, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain From developing social skills to fostering creativity, pretend play in young children is likened to being a “metaphoric multivitamin” in an editorial published in the journal

What can be done for children who may be having a panic attack?

September 21, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the movie “Inside Out 2,” 13-year-old Riley, who has recently started puberty, has a panic attack during a hockey game timeout. Anxiety (the emotion responsible

Q&A: Examining the impact of negative media coverage on LGBTQ+ young adults

September 21, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Kirsty Clark, assistant professor of medicine, health, and society, studies mental health disparities impacting LGBTQ+ populations through her lab. The Clark Lab then develops evidence-based interventions to disrupt the course

Estimating incidence of neuroleptic malignant syndrome in youth on antipsychotics

September 21, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Incidence of NMS in children and youth according to N of risk factors. Credit: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology (2024). DOI: 10.1089/cap.2024.0047 A new study in the Journal of

Improvement seen in vaccine completion among military children

September 21, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Among military children, there has been an improvement in vaccine completion and timeliness, but the risk for noncompletion is higher among children born to younger parents and those with a

Commission warns parents about nursery products linked to infant deaths

September 21, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Each year, an average of 174 U.S. kids under the age of 5 lose their lives over causes linked to nursery products. Many of these tragedies could be prevented, and

Discovery of a new tumor cell type in childhood cancer

September 14, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Multi-omic CNV identification in single neuroblastoma cells reveal complex subclonal architectures and identify abnormal SCP-like populations carrying whole-chromosome gains. Credit: Molecular Cancer (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s12943-024-02091-y Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have

Kids in families with too much screen time struggle with language skills, study suggests

September 13, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Screens have become ubiquitous in our daily lives—which means they’ve also become part of children’s lives too. So what effect does this have on children’s developing

Desperate parents turn to magnetic therapy to help kids with autism: There’s little evidence

September 13, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Thomas VanCott compares his son Jake’s experience with autism to life on a tightrope. Upset the delicate balance and Jake, 18, plunges into frustration, slapping himself