August 20, 2024
(Axios) – For a third year, back-to-school preparations will include a scramble to find popular drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Why it matters: Despite signs from the Food and Drug Administration that manufacturers were catching up to … Read More
August 15, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – The previously unreported program to capture facial images of children crossing the border is designed to improve facial recognition algorithms. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to collect and analyze photos of the faces … Read More
August 8, 2024
(NPR) – As Bodansky and his colleagues report in the journal Nature, many children who developed MIS-C had an out-of-control immune response to COVID as a result of mistaken identity. Basically, these children’s immune systems locked onto a part of … Read More
August 8, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Babies born 22 weeks into pregnancy have increasingly better odds of survival—but parents often don’t know what’s possible Doctors are now capable of saving the lives of babies born at 22 weeks and, in rare cases, … Read More
August 7, 2024
(New York Times) – A national survey found promising signs that key mental health measures for teens, especially girls, have improved since the depths of the pandemic. Fifty-three percent of girls reported extreme depressive symptoms in 2023, down from 57 … Read More
August 7, 2024
(New York Times) – The herbicide, used widely on crops including broccoli and onions, can cause low birth weight and impaired brain development, regulators said. In a move not seen for almost 40 years, the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday … Read More
August 6, 2024
(Our World Data) – This chart shows death rates across the first year of a baby’s life and how they have been reduced over time. The data spans 1921 to 2021 and comes from the Office for National Statistics in … Read More
August 6, 2024
(The Atlantic) – By the policy’s peak extent, in the 2010s, millions of students each year were receiving so-called “BMI report cards” in the mail—and some students even saw their weight status appear on their actual report cards, alongside their … Read More
August 2, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 390, no. 22, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 1, 2024
(ABC News) – The Senate passed two key pieces of legislation aimed at keeping children safe on the internet Tuesday afternoon, marking a major step in Congress’ ongoing effort to regulate massive tech companies. The two bills, which beef up … Read More
August 1, 2024
(BBC) – A seven-year-old boy has become the first child in the UK to undergo surgery using a pioneering robot-assisted device. Reece, from Gosport, Hampshire, was treated for a kidney condition at Southampton Children’s Hospital. The NHS centre is leading … Read More
July 31, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Instagram and Facebook, already under federal investigation, still run ads for illegal drugs. Meta Platforms is running ads on Facebook and Instagram that steer users to online marketplaces for illegal drugs, months after The Wall Street … Read More
July 30, 2024
(ABC News) – Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say, from appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say. … Read More
July 29, 2024
(KETV Omaha) — The state’s highest court ruled Friday to uphold LB 574, the law that bans abortions at 12 weeks and gender-affirming care for minors. The law had been tied up in a legal battle after Planned Parenthood tried … Read More
July 26, 2024
(Aeon) – When babies are born, they cry in the accent of their mother tongue: how does language begin in the womb? Vagitus uterinus occurs – always in the last trimester – when there’s a tear in the uterine membrane. … Read More
July 25, 2024
(Axios) – Congress’ boldest effort to date to crack down on social media platforms and protect kids’ mental health is stoking a debate over whether the remedy could end up making youths less safe. Why it matters: Curbing sources of … Read More
July 24, 2024
(New York Times) – Progress in the quest to help progeria patients suggests that gene editing techniques may help treat other ultrarare conditions. A cure for an ultrarare disease, progeria, could be on the horizon. The disease speeds up aging … Read More
July 24, 2024
(Axios) – Teen birth rates in the United States have continued to decline significantly across the board since 2000, but racial and ethnic disparities still exist, federal data released Wednesday shows. Why it matters: Decreasing teen births can positively affect … Read More
July 22, 2024
Research Ethics (vol. 20, no. 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 18, 2024
(The Verge) – Instagram will let a select group of researchers access its data to study how the platform affects the mental health of teens and young adults. The pilot program, launched in partnership with the Center for Open Science … Read More
July 16, 2024
(Axios) – Childhood immunization rates plateaued last year, leaving 2.7 million more kids worldwide lacking the protection they need compared with pre-pandemic levels, according to the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Why it matters: Widening gaps in immunization coverage are … Read More
July 12, 2024
(BBC) – Members of an Australian religious group have gone on trial accused of killing an eight-year-old diabetic girl by denying her medical care and offering prayer instead. Elizabeth Struhs was found dead at a home in Toowoomba – about … Read More
July 11, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Two nearby explosions didn’t stop doctors at Kyiv’s largest children’s hospital from working. The third ripped through it. Russia’s conduct of its war in Ukraine is generating fresh opprobrium after the strike on the Okhmatdyt hospital, … Read More
July 5, 2024
(New York Times) – More than 37 million children receive coverage through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. This means pediatricians get reimbursed at much lower rates than those in other areas of medicine. Even pediatric subspecialists must deal … Read More
July 5, 2024
Hastings Center Report (vol. 54, Issue 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Beneath the Sword of Damocles: Moral Obligations of Physicians in a Post?Dobbs Landscape” by Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Ruth R. Faden and Michelle M. Mello … Read More
