Tag: Children’s Health
Violent video games blamed more often for school shootings by white perpetrators: Racial stereotypes may play role with assumptions that African-Americans are more violent, study finds
Hair could be the key to better mental-illness diagnosis in teens: Study also finds lower depression risk in kids with good family support
Access to contraception not ‘silver bullet’ to stem population growth in Africa
The unpopular truth about biases toward people with disabilities
Society pays heavy price for failure to diagnose and treat conduct disorder
Measles vaccination linked to health and schooling benefits
Lower risk of Type 1 diabetes seen in children vaccinated against ‘stomach flu’ virus
First smartphone app that can hear ear infections in children
Alternative treatment for epileptic seizures in children identified
Higher lead in topsoil boosts probability of cognitive difficulties in 5-year-old boys
Artificial intelligence identifies key patterns from video footage of infant movements
Largest description of ST3GAL5 (GM3 Synthase) deficiency published
Exposure to sugary breakfast cereal advertising directly influences children’s diets
Parental ‘feeding styles’ reflect children’s genes
Novel mutation affecting YARS causes multisystem disease
How clear speech equates to clear memory: Researchers find that a speaker’s clearly articulated style can improve a listener’s memory of what was said
Music improves social communication in autistic children
DFMO increases survival for children with high risk neuroblastoma, study finds: First study shown to improve the nearly 50 percent rate of relapse in children with high-risk neuroblastoma
First-born children more likely to learn about sex from parents: Men consistently report lower parental involvement in sex education than women
Stepfathers’ ‘Cinderella effect’ challenged by new study
A first step toward cracking the genetics of strabismus: A mysterious variant on chromosome 21, in patients with esotropia, is the first to be linked to common strabismus
Spinal muscular atrophy disease expression correlated with haplotypes
What Anglo Saxon teeth can tell us about modern health
Parents’ behavior during playtime may affect toddler’s weight later on
Rapid-onset gender dysphoria
Women with intellectual and developmental disabilities have almost double the rate of repeat pregnancy
Mutated gene is likely cause of 3-year-old girl’s severe disorder: Damaged gene FBXO28
Medicaid expansion boosts employment: Individuals with disabilities saw greater working rates in expansion states