Paediatric Health Related News
World Microbiome Day and dietary biotics in infant nutrition
Today marks World Microbiome Day, here Nutricia and academic publisher Wiley present a new book to highlight the expanding role of dietary biotics in...
Child safety: personal care products sends children to emergency room
Did you know that every two hours a child is sent to the emergency room due to personal care products? Discover how dangerous products...
Maximising vaccine effectiveness for children using genome-wide genotyping
Published in Cell Reports, genetics influence how protective childhood vaccines are, and researchers have found a way of maximising vaccine effectiveness using genome-wide genotyping.
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Following a comprehensive smoking ban, child deaths in Brazil have fallen
According to researchers, strengthening the legislation regarding the smoking ban in Brazil between 2000 and 2016 averted over 15,000 child deaths for those under...
Neuroblastoma treatment: new synthetic molecules boosting efficacy of therapy
According to researchers, newly developed synthetic molecules that deliver drugs to an aggressive tumour in children could be an improved version of neuroblastoma treatment.
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Discover the promising new Noonan syndrome treatment
According to researchers at Université de Montréal and CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Canada, there may be a new Noonan syndrome treatment on the horizon.
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Sleeplessness crisis: The hidden health crisis and what it really means for today’s children
2018 was the year that experts pronounced children’s lack of sleep as a ‘hidden health crisis’, after NHS England statistics revealed thousands of children...
Did you know that chronic constipation in children occurs in picky pre-schoolers?
Published in the Journal of Paediatrics, the first study of its kind found that chronic constipation in children who are picky eaters leads to...
Did you know that maternal gestational diabetes is linked to diabetes in children?
According to research published in CMAJ, diabetes in children is more likely to occur if the mother of the child experienced maternal gestational diabetes.
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What do you know about congenital heart defects and later-life illness?
Health Europa presents recent research into the long-term effects of congenital heart defects on both infants and their mothers.
Congenital heart defects – which include...