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Youth with neurodevelopmental conditions experience rare but elevated mortality rates

Young people with neurodevelopmental conditions face substantial and preventable health inequalities, a University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study has found.

Pediatrics

Network analysis maps how children receive emergency care across the US

A Northwestern Medicine-led study has established the first pediatric-specific atlas of acute care regions across the United States, offering the clearest picture of how children access emergency and inpatient services to ...

Pediatrics

Programs aimed at reducing pollution can benefit infant health

Because policies to address pollution are costly to implement and impose social burdens, it is important to understand the full benefits of pollution-reducing programs. An article in Health Economics provides compelling evidence ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

How teen friendships may predict self harm

Most of us know what it's like to be a teenager at school—and how it feels to fit into (or fall outside of) a school's social hierarchy. This typically includes some version of the popular kids, the loners and the in-betweeners, ...

Pediatrics

How marijuana policy design could better protect teens

As more states legalize recreational marijuana, a new paper from Tonya Dodge, associate professor of psychology at George Washington University, warns that current marijuana regulations may leave adolescents vulnerable.

Health

Integrating children's health into climate adaptation measures

A Weill Cornell Medicine investigator and other members of a technical advisory group to the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund have outlined measures that nations can take to ensure that children's ...

Pediatrics

Keeping pediatrics afloat in a sea of funding cuts

As Medicaid funding cuts enacted through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are expected to reduce health coverage among adults, researchers and clinicians from Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and Ariadne Labs argue ...

Pediatrics

29% of infants immunized against RSV in 2023 to 2024 season

Overall, 29% of infants born during October 2023 to March 2024 were immunized against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) during the 2023 to 2024 respiratory virus season, according to research published in the Aug. 21 issue ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Rethinking phototherapy: Why skin color matters for infant jaundice

Jaundice is one of the most common medical issues in newborns, affecting nearly 80% of full-term infants in their first days of life. The condition occurs when excess bilirubin, a yellow pigment formed as red blood cells ...

Inflammatory disorders

Inhibiting programmed cell death to treat a rare childhood disease

A team of researchers at the University of Cologne's Center for Biochemistry, together with the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome, Italy, have discovered a fundamental biological mechanism that directly connects the ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Few depressed teens getting treatment, study finds

Fewer than half of all adolescents with major depressive episode (MDE) received mental health care in the US in 2022, with the odds of specialist treatment being even lower among marginalized groups, according to a study ...

HIV & AIDS

Setback in the fight against pediatric HIV

For more than 20 years, Harvard infectious disease specialist Roger Shapiro has fought HIV on the ground in Botswana, where the rate of infection exceeded 30% in some areas of the country in the 1990s.

Pediatrics

Sleep problems in early teens associated with future self-harm

Self-harm in young people is a major public health concern, rates are rising, and the adolescent years present a critical period of intervention. Another modern challenge facing adolescents is sleep deficiency, with global ...

Pediatrics

Tdap, MenACWY coverage increased in teens from 2023 to 2024

From 2023 to 2024, coverage with one or more doses of the tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) and the quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MenACWY) increased, while human ...