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

Babies born to women consuming a high fat, sugary diet at greater risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes: Study

September 13, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: The Journal of Physiology (2024). DOI: 10.1113/JP286861 Babies born to pregnant women with obesity are more likely to develop heart problems and diabetes as adults due to fetal damage

Guns remain leading cause of death for US children and teens

September 13, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions underscores the continuing epidemic of gun deaths in the U.S., including among children and

Wildfire smoke exposure boosts risk of mental illness in youth, researchers find

September 13, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Each additional day of exposure to wildfire smoke and other extreme forms of dirty air boosts the risk of mental illness in youth a little more,

Understanding the how and why of preterm brain injury

September 13, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Representative images of NeuN- and MAP2-positive cells in the cortical gray matter (cortex; Layer V) and caudate. Scale bar represents 50 μm. Credit: Journal of Neuroinflammation (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s12974-024-03137-0 Being born