September 24, 2024
(BBC) – A four-year-old boy who was expected to die shortly after his life support was removed has “confounded” medical expectations, a UK judge has said in a ruling. Months before, the High Court ruled that life-sustaining ventilation was not … Read More
September 24, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 10, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 23, 2024
(Axios) – Childhood trauma can raise the risk of developing major diseases later in life that vary based on a person’s unique experiences and even their sex, new research concludes. Why it matters: Although it’s widely understood that trauma early … Read More
September 18, 2024
(ABC News) – The number of calls to U.S. poison centers about children consuming energy drinks increased about 20% in 2023 after years of remaining relatively flat, according to data from America’s Poison Centers. America’s Poison Centers, which accredits and … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Axios) – Instagram on Tuesday announced major changes to teen accounts that give parents more control over their teen’s messaging and content settings. Why it matters: Worldwide, over 100 million accounts will likely be impacted. The big picture: The company … Read More
September 17, 2024
(NBC News) – Enterovirus D68 is linked to rare cases of the polio-like illness acute myelitis, or AFM. So far this year, the CDC has confirmed 13 cases of AFM. A respiratory virus that sometimes paralyzes children is spreading across … Read More
September 17, 2024
(Nature) – Evidence shows that blockbuster weight-loss medications can reduce obesity even in children aged 6–11, but their long-term effects on growing bodies are unknown. Millions of adults around the world take potent drugs such as Wegovy to shed pounds. … Read More
September 12, 2024
(The Hill) – Murthy noted in the advisory that parents now grapple with the “complexity of managing social media … concerns about the youth mental health crisis, and an epidemic of loneliness that disproportionately affects young people.” Psychologists and parenting … Read More
September 11, 2024
(NBC News) – Researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences identified a compound that affects an area of the brain that triggers hormone production. The age when girls hit puberty has been falling at an alarming rate for … Read More
September 10, 2024
(ABC News) – A 12-day campaign to stop the polio outbreak in the Gaza Strip moved into its third and final phase today, an effort to vaccinate about 150,000 children in the northern part of the war-torn territory. Its previous … Read More
September 9, 2024
(New York Times) – Neuroimaging found girls experienced cortical thinning far faster than boys did during the first year of Covid lockdowns. A study of adolescent brain development that tested children before and after coronavirus pandemic lockdowns in the United … Read More
September 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Beijing formally ends a program that was propelled by birth restrictions and that had been largely on hold since the pandemic China said it was formally ending almost all international adoptions, shutting down a process that … Read More
September 5, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Bats have a bad reputation, but they deserve better. The flying mammals are nature’s pest control, swooping over America’s farmland every night to feast on swarms of insects that would otherwise chew through crops. But … Read More
September 2, 2024
(ABC News) – Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been ravaged by the Israel-Hamas war. … Read More
August 29, 2024
(ABC News) – The U.N. World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children after a baby contracted … Read More
August 28, 2024
(The Verge) – A Pennsylvania appeals court said Section 230 can’t shield TikTok from the lawsuit. TikTok must face a lawsuit over the viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, a Pennsylvania-based appeals court ruled on … Read More
August 27, 2024
(Quartz) – Novo Nordisk (NVO) just registered a new clinical study that will look at the long-term effects of semaglutide, the active ingredient behind the popular drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, on teenagers. Semaglutide works by mimicking a hormone that regulates … Read More
August 26, 2024
(Reuters) – A 10-month-old baby in war-shattered Gaza has been paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years, the World Health Organization said on Friday, with U.N. agencies appealing for urgent … Read More
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
