Kids choose fruit when it's easy to eat
Previous studies and surveys have shown that kids love to eat fruit in ready-to-eat bite-sized pieces, yet in most school settings, the fruit is served whole, which could be the cause that children are...
Attention to TV is key link between screen media use and obesity
Using a new research method that tracks moment-by-moment use of electronic media by young people, researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have shown that paying attention to TV is strongly associated with higher Body Mass...
Childhood lead exposure linked to crime in adulthood
Australians who were exposed to high levels of lead as children may be at greater risk of committing violent and impulsive crimes two decades later, our yet-to-be-published research suggests.
The origins of criminal behaviour have...
Developmental delays in children following prolonged seizures
Researchers from the UK determined that developmental delays are present in children within six weeks following convulsive status epilepticus (CSE)—a seizure lasting longer than thirty minutes. The study appearing today in Epilepsia, a journal...
Study exposes link between pesticides and childhood brain tumours
A new study from the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has revealed a potential link between professional pesticide treatments in the home and a higher risk of children developing brain tumours.
Published in the...
New plan to address pneumonia and diarrhoea could save 2 million children a year
A new Global Action Plan launched today by the WHO and UNICEF has the potential to save up to 2 million children every year from deaths caused by pneumonia and diarrhoea, some of the...
Rates of childhood squint surgery have plummeted over past 50 years
Rates of surgery to correct childhood squint in England have tumbled over the past 50 years, finds research published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
But there’s still a fivefold difference between the areas...
Predicting repeat suicide-related behavior in youth
New research out of St. Michael's Hospital has found that multiple factors independently predict what makes youth more likely to make repeat suicide-related behaviour.
The study, led by Dr. Anne Rhodes, a research scientist at...
Immunotherapy showed promising antileukemia activity in pediatric patients
Researchers using patients’ own immune cells in an immunotherapy approach called “anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy,” achieved responses in children whose acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) had returned after a bone marrow transplant,...
Finding genes for childhood obesity
Researchers have identified four genes newly associated with severe childhood obesity. They also found an increased burden of rare structural variations in severely obese children.
The team found that structural variations can delete sections of...
