July 8, 2020
(MedPage Today) Cerebral palsy among IVF children decreased by more than 50% in the last 20 years, researchers reported. The crude risk of cerebral palsy among children conceived via assisted reproductive technology (ART) dropped from 0.9% to 0.3% from 1990 … Read More
June 29, 2020
(STAT News) – Two U.S. research groups have reported finding nearly 300 cases of an alarming apparent side effect of Covid-19 in children, a condition called multisystem inflammation syndrome, or MIS-C. While researchers have previously reported on the condition, the … Read More
June 23, 2020
(Voice of America) – The coronavirus is threatening the livelihoods of 600 million children in South Asia, UNICEF said in a report released Tuesday. The report, “Lives Upended,” describes how the pandemic is unraveling decades of progress on the health, … Read More
June 19, 2020
(STAT News) – In January, when it became clear that a new coronavirus was transmitting with ease among people in central China, one of the top questions scientists who study disease dynamics wanted answered was this: What role are children … Read More
June 17, 2020
(STAT News) – An 18th birthday can mean many things. It’s a formal step into adulthood. It’s the newfound right to vote, get a tattoo, join the armed forces, be called for jury duty. It’s also what some mental health … Read More
June 15, 2020
(STAT News) – The Food and Drug Administration on Monday for the first time gave a green light to a game-based therapeutic: a video game meant to be prescribed to kids with ADHD. The game, known as EndeavorRx and developed … Read More
June 15, 2020
(ProPublica) – A prominent women’s hospital here has separated some Native American women from their newly born babies, the result of a practice designed to stop the spread of COVID-19 that clinicians and health care ethicists described as racial profiling. … Read More
June 10, 2020
(UPI) – Racial disparities in the care received by babies born prematurely — and with low birth weight — and their mothers might be narrowing and generating improvements in overall survival, a study published Wednesday has found. The improvements in … Read More
June 10, 2020
(Reuters) – Nigerian Minister of Women Affairs Pauline Tallen called on law enforcement to expedite rape cases as they spiked during lockdowns aimed at containing the spread of the new coronavirus. Her call followed protests (here) earlier this week over … Read More
June 3, 2020
(ABC News) – A mother who lost custody of her terminally ill son to the state is fighting an effort to withhold life support measures and let the child die naturally. The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled in favor … Read More
