(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Being overweight in childhood increases the risk of developing type 1 diabetes in later life, according to the findings of a new study that analysed genetic data on over 400,000 individuals.
Category: Children’s Health
Childhood Abuse Linked to Higher Risk for High Cholesterol as An Adult
(HealthNewsDigestcom) – DALLAS, — A new study found risk factors for heart disease and stroke were higher among adults who said they experienced childhood abuse and varied by race and gender.
More Young Children Are Accidentally Ingesting Cannabis Edibles
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – For the fourth year in a row the NJ Poison Control Center has seen an increase in calls concerning children who accidentally consumed cannabis (marijuana, THC) edibles.
Empowering Kids to Survive in Fire, Flood, and War
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – When you live in the driest State in the driest country in the world, bushfires are an unfortunate, and all-too-regular part of life. Learning how to survive such emergencies is important for all people, but especially for our youngest citizens
Grants to Study Heart Transplants in Children
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DALLAS, April 25, 2022 — Scientific research teams in California and Colorado have been awarded nearly $1.4 million in grants to study ways to improve pediatric heart transplant outcomes.
Keeping an Eye on Your Child’s Vision
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – From allergies to nearsightedness, to the daily staring at digital screens, the hazards facing kids’ eyes give parents a lot to worry about.
Firearms Kill More Children than Car Crashes
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Gun violence in the United States has increased to the point that it now kills more children than any other cause, including car accidents, and pediatricians may not be entirely prepared.
Opposes Florida Department of Health Policy on Gender Dysphoria Treatment for Children and Adolescents
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON—The Endocrine Society objects to the Florida Department of Health’s bulletin on gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse youth.
Youth Development Program Helping Kids Get Out of Poverty in Adulthood
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A free youth development program serving Black children and teens living in a low-income segregated community demonstrated positive long-term educational and financial outcomes in its alumni
Climate Change and Global Childhood Health
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – From allergies and asthma to infectious diseases and even malnutrition, the indirect effects of climate change are taking a toll on our most valuable resource, kids!
Some Children with Cerebral Palsy Scoliosis May Not Need Pelvic Fixation
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new Michigan Medicine study finds that some children with cerebral palsy and scoliosis do not require pelvic fixation when undergoing growing rod treatment, potentially avoiding several complications.
Map Lung Development After Birth Into Late Childhood for the First Time
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – How do the lungs develop after taking their first breaths outside the womb? What cellular events and changes early in life give rise to lung malfunction and disease?
Lead As a Social Determinant of Child and Adolescent Physiological Stress
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PHILADELPHIA – Lead is an environmental neurotoxicant that causes neurocognitive deficits and cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. It also disproportionately affects socially disadvantaged communities.
Children Are Less Likely Than Adults to Think of Farm Animals as Food
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Children see eating meat as less morally acceptable than adults do, according to new research in Social Psychological and Personality Science. This work demonstrates that humans are not born with the mental processes used to justify eating meat.
Children’s Emergency Department Opens at The Mount Sinai Hospital
(HealthNewsDigest.com) New York, NY – April 11, 2022 – The Mount Sinai Hospital has announced the completion of a full renovation of its children’s Emergency Department (ED), and a newly redesigned area for walk-in, low acuity adult patients.
Heart Issues After COVID-19 Uncommon in Children & Young Adults
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DALLAS, April 11, 2022 — Heart complications are uncommon, yet treatable for children and young adults after COVID-19 disease or SARS-CoV-2 infection….
Children’s Hospital Is First in Manhattan to Use Cutting-Edge Seizure Monitoring Technology for Critically Ill Children
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital will be the first children’s hospital in Manhattan to use a new, state-of-the art seizure monitoring device that facilitates rapid, point-of-care detection….
Middle Ear Fluid Common in Kids on Ventilators
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Babies and toddlers who need a tracheostomy – a tube surgically inserted into their windpipe to help relieve breathing problems – are at a high risk of accumulating fluid behind their eardrum when on a ventilator.
Omicron ‘Less Severe’ than Delta for Children Ages 4 and Younger
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CLEVELAND—New suggests that the children younger than age 5 who are infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant have less risk of severe health outcomes than those infected with the Delta variant.
How Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Team Members Go the Extra Mile for the Community
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has a strong tradition of responding to the needs of the community. In fact, it is in response to those needs that the hospital opened 121 years ago as a facility dedicated to the care of children.