May 21, 2024
(New York Times) – He also identified the virus, which can cause infants to be born with severe physical and mental impairments as well as causing miscarriages and stillbirths. Dr. Paul D. Parkman, whose research was instrumental in identifying the … Read More
May 16, 2024
(Wired) – The European Union has opened an investigation into Facebook and Instagram for the platforms’ potentially addictive effects on children, echoing two similar probes opened into TikTok earlier this year. Meta-owned platforms will be investigated for their addictive and … Read More
May 16, 2024
(Associated Press) – A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from eating a large quantity of chile pepper extract and also had a congenital heart defect, according to autopsy results obtained by … Read More
May 15, 2024
(New York Times) – Dr. Hilary Cass published a landmark report that led to restrictions on youth gender care in Britain. U.S. health groups said it did not change their support of the care. The National Health Service asked Dr. … Read More
May 15, 2024
(New York Times) – An outdated medical term often masks treatable illnesses, health experts contend. The word “failure” is rampant in medicine. Hearts, livers, lungs, and kidneys all “fail,” which simply means they cease to do their job. But the … Read More
May 13, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The world is at a startling demographic milestone. Sometime soon, the global fertility rate will drop below the point needed to keep population constant. It may have already happened. Fertility is falling almost everywhere, for women … Read More
May 13, 2024
(The New Yorker) – Colleagues reportedly called Lucy Letby an “angel of death,” and the Prime Minister condemned her. But, in the rush to judgment, serious questions about the evidence were ignored. (Read More)
May 10, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Clinicians prescribed hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and ivermectin inappropriately to thousands of children with acute COVID-19, according to a retrospective cohort study. In a large U.S. all-payer database, 3,602 ivermectin prescriptions and 813 HCQ prescriptions for kids with acute … Read More
May 9, 2024
(BBC) – A UK girl born deaf can now hear unaided, after a groundbreaking gene-therapy treatment. Opal Sandy was treated shortly before her first birthday – and six months on, can hear sounds as soft as a whisper and is … Read More
May 9, 2024
(Independent) – Children with peanut and milk allergies have shown dramatic improvements on a new trial. Five NHS hospitals have so far joined a £2.5 million clinical trial, thanks to funding from the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation. Natasha Ednan-Laperouse died … Read More
May 9, 2024
(Axios) – Approximately 321,566 children in the U.S. lost a parent to drug overdose in the decade between 2011 and 2021, according to a new study. Why it matters: The findings underscore the human toll of the increase in drug … Read More
May 7, 2024
(NPR) – While countries routinely collect child mortality data, very little is known about the lives — and premature deaths — of sex workers’ children. Sometimes there are no records of these kids’ births or deaths. “They could be born … Read More
April 17, 2024
(NPR) – Norditropin, the growth hormone prescribed most often, went into shortage in the fall of 2022. It’s still scarce a year and a half later, despite assurances from Novo Nordisk, maker of the drug, that supplies would stabilize in … Read More
April 17, 2024
(The Verge) – Meta is launching a new hub for Quest headsets later this year that should make it easier for educators to use them in schools. In a blog post on Monday, Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, … Read More
April 11, 2024
(Aeon) – My father had become professionally involved with the Tavistock, which in the 1980s was a hotbed of Kleinian analysts. In 1986, he signed me up with O’Shaughnessy, and I began what proved to be three years of private … Read More
April 11, 2024
(KFF Health News) – In 2003, Arkansas became the first state to send home BMI reports about all students as part of a broader anti-obesity initiative. But in the 20 years since, the state’s childhood obesity rates have risen to … Read More
April 10, 2024
(STAT News) – Compounding the problem is the average delay of 11 years between the onset of a mental health condition and its diagnosis. Think about it: a child exhibiting signs of mental health challenges at age 6 may not … Read More
April 10, 2024
(New York Times) – England’s move is part of a broader shift in northern Europe, where health officials have been concerned by soaring demand for adolescent gender treatments in recent years. Many patients also have mental health conditions that make … Read More
April 8, 2024
(Undark) – At the time, Tang knew nothing about PANDAS. She had completed her own medical residency two years before the illness — short for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections — was first outlined in a 1998 … Read More
March 28, 2024
(New York Times) – Cases of trisomy 18 may rise as many states restrict abortion. But some women choose to have the babies, love them tenderly and care for them devotedly. In Texas last year, Kate Cox, whose fetus had … Read More
March 25, 2024
(Axios) – A shocking number of American kids are sad, suicidal and stuck on small screens sucking away their zest for life. Why it matters: This is the indisputable and alarming trend among American children, based on the latest polling … Read More
March 25, 2024
March 21, 2024
(NPR) – From her base in Gallup, New Mexico, Melissa Wyaco supervises about two dozen public health nurses who crisscross the sprawling Navajo Nation searching for patients who have tested positive for or been exposed to a disease once nearly … Read More
March 19, 2024
March 15, 2024
(Vox) – Children worldwide are less likely to die before they reach the age of 5 than at any time in recorded history, according to new data from the United Nations. The worldwide mortality rate for kids younger than 5 … Read More
