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...
A small Italian trial into infant colic found that drops containing a particular probiotic strain reduced the duration of daily crying by more than 50% in 80% of the 40 infants who received the probiotic once daily for 28 days, with...Paediatrics
Children's average daily time spent watching television or using a computer or mobile device increased from 53 minutes at age 12 months to more than 150 minutes at 3 years, according to an analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of...
November 13th, 2019
Boosting the milk of premature babies with healthy bacteria may have helped half the number of serious gut problems and infections, according to research led by the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, and involving the University of East...
August 28th, 2019Four in 10 parents say they are very or somewhat likely to move their child to a different provider if their doctor sees families who refuse all childhood vaccines, according to a US national poll.
Most children in the US receive recommended...
