Vitamin D levels in the womb may modify the association between maternal pre-eclampsia and hypertension in childhood, found a Johns Hopkins study.
Children appear to...Weekly Roundup
Almost 2m babies are stillborn every year – or 1 every 16 seconds – according to the first ever joint stillbirth estimates released by UNICEF, the World Health...Coronavirus
For every 1,000 people infected with the coronavirus who are under the age of 50, almost none will die. For people in their fifties and early sixties, about five will...
July 22nd, 2020The candidate coronavirus vaccine AZD1222, being developed by University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, generated an immune response in a study of roughly 1,000...
An analysis of data from more than 1,300 women followed prospectively through pregnancy found that women with lower levels of the essential mineral manganese in early...
June 17th, 2020Most of the registered clinical trials of potential treatments for COVID-19 underway as of late March were designed in ways that will greatly limit their value in...
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) rapidly became a public health emergency of international...Coronavirus Watch
An analysis of publicly available data on infections from the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that causes the respiratory illness COVID-19 yielded an estimate of 5.1 days...
November 6th, 2019
Inoculation with the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine did not impair children’s overall immunity. Importantly, it also prevented measles from depleting...
September 25th, 2019
A diet that involved reducing animal food consumption by two-thirds – – generally had a lower climate and water footprint than the more traditional lacto-ovo...
