March 17th, 2021A five-day course of high-dose amoxicillin will do just as well for children six months to 10 years old with common pneumonia, found research from McMaster University.
"Several studies have proven that adults with pneumonia do fine with short...
Blood pressure measurements in children and adolescents should be taken from both arms after new research showed substantial differences could be seen depending on which arm was used. The study, led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute...
March 10th, 2021Peanut sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) was associated with significant desensitisation in toddlers, ages one- to four-years, with no safety issues, a US randomised trial showed.
During the placebo-controlled trial, cumulative tolerated dose in...
A Finnish study in Nature Communications has found an association between antibiotic use in the first few days of life and reduced height and weight in boys in early childhood.
In the study, a team led by scientists from Finland and Israel looked...Paediatrics
Kindergarten readiness forecasts a later protective edge in emerging adulthood and suggests that youngsters who begin school with the right preparedness gain a lifestyle advantage, found a study based on data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of...
September 30th, 2020Introducing high doses of gluten from four months of age into infants’ diets could prevent them from developing coeliac disease, a study has found. These results from the Enquiring About Tolerance (EAT) Study by researchers from King’s Guy’s...
An Australian study of 8- to 11-year olds reveals an association between heavy television use and poorer reading performance, as well as between heavy computer use and poorer numeracy.
Lisa Mundy of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in...
June 17th, 2020The siblings of infants who have died suddenly and unexpectedly run 10 times the risk of dying in the same way, indicates a long-term analysis of monitoring data. Such deaths remain rare, but affected parents need extra help to cut the risks of...
April 22nd, 2020
Researchers compared teacher and parent evaluations of children who started kindergarten in 1998 – six years before Facebook launched – with those who began school in 2010, when the first iPad debuted. Results showed both groups of kids were...
April 1st, 2020
An infant's development and attachment to their parents is not affected by being left to 'cry it out' and can actually decrease the amount of crying and duration, researchers from the University of Warwick have found. In the paper they deal with an...
March 18th, 2020
A study has found exclusive breastfeeding for the first three months was linked with a lower risk of respiratory allergies and asthma when children reached 6 years of age. In the study of 1,177 mother-infant pairs, a third of the children were...
March 4th, 2020
A study led by Brigham Young University public health researchers finds the number of calories kids consume from post-game snacks far exceeds the number of calories they actually burn playing in the game. "Kids are getting inundated with snack...
A University College London study has found that an additional 60 minutes of light activity (such as walking or doing chores) daily at age 12 was associated with a 10% reduction in depressive symptoms at age 18.
"Our findings show that young...Paediatrics
A study is the first to look at the link between children's fingertip injures and abuse or neglect. The researchers used a New York state database that tracks medical discharge records to identify 79,108 children from infancy to 12 years old who...Paediatrics
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Safe Passage Study on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) found that combined exposures to alcohol and tobacco have a synergistic effect on SIDS risk, given that dual exposure was associated with...
January 8th, 2020
A systematic review and meta-analysis led by St Michael's Hospital of Unity Health Toronto found children who drank whole milk had 40% lower odds of being overweight or obese compared with children who consumed reduced-fat milk.
The research...
