The use of bariatric surgery to treat severe obesity in adolescents, and the racial disparities in access to that treatment, were analyzed in a retrospective study published in Annals of Surgery by researchers at The University of Texas Health ... [Continue Reading]
NHS staff and families accounted for one in six Covid hospital cases, study reveals
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Coronavirus Chronicles — A Mob of Two
The global plague of obesity and the plague caused by SARS-CoV-2 were destined to form a mutual aid society, which is a polite way of saying, a deadly partnership. By combining forces, they can do so much more damage. The virus finds that overweight ... [Continue Reading]
2020 Senate election: What is it and why is it important?
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Specific genes of infant gut bacterium determine its symbiotic function in the infant’s gut
While an infant's genes distinguish her from other newborns, a new peer-reviewed study reports that specific genes of a particular infant gut bacterium determine its symbiotic function in the infant's gut. SOURCE: News Medical Child Health News Feed ... [Continue Reading]
Energy Balance and Exercise
Science Advances is a journal run by a nonprofit group, which recoups its publication costs from authors. It is peer-reviewed, but authors are allowed to suggest reviewers. Would-be authors have made quite a few complaints about “editorial ... [Continue Reading]
The 44 Presidents of the United States who came before Donald Trump
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Early life exposure to air pollution may increase children’s body mass index
Exposure to higher air pollution levels and greater population density during the early months of life may be associated with an increase in children's body mass index (BMI). SOURCE: News Medical Child Health News Feed - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Neuron-based gene expression study reveals insights on fear and its regulation
The expression of a gene called CREB in certain neurons may function as a switch to regulate feelings of fear and its extinction. SOURCE: Children's Health News -- ScienceDaily - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Kid influencers are promoting junk food brands on YouTube — garnering more than a billion views
Kids with wildly popular YouTube channels are frequently promoting unhealthy food and drinks in their videos, warn researchers. SOURCE: Children's Health News -- ScienceDaily - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Coronavirus Chronicles — Partners in Crime
In all the flurry that attends a national crisis, it is easy to overlook an event like the issuance of the 9th edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Report. The new batch of guidelines is expected to be good through 2025. That is, at any ... [Continue Reading]
Isle of Wight tanker: Special Forces take control of ship after ‘hijackers’ threaten the crew
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Universal testing in schools may be needed to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission
Researchers at Simon Fraser University in Canada have warned that within the school setting, even small differences in individuals' contribution, their environment, and their activities to the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome ... [Continue Reading]
Vice-president Mike Pence’s aide Marc Short tests positive for coronavirus
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Donald Trump calls Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen ‘a creep’ and ‘a phony guy’
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Antenatal steroids improve preterm newborn survival in low-resource settings, finds study
The results of a new clinical trial, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that dexamethasone- a glucocorticoid used to treat many conditions, including rheumatic problems and severe COVID-19- can boost survival of premature ... [Continue Reading]
PTSD and alcohol abuse go hand-in-hand, but males and females exhibit symptoms differently
Through intricate experiments designed to account for sex-specific differences, scientists have zeroed-in on certain changes in the brain that may be responsible for driving alcohol abuse among people with PTSD. In studies with rodents, researchers ... [Continue Reading]
Coronavirus Chronicles — Hand in Hand, Obesity and COVID-19
Obesity and COVID-19 are very compatible with each other, as Childhood Obesity News has pointed out before. Reports keep piling up that describe the simpatico relationship between the two plagues. One thing the coronavirus does is force people to eat ... [Continue Reading]
Preventive antimalarial treatments drastically reduce malaria infections among school children
With nearly half of the world's population at risk for life-threatening malaria infections, University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers and their colleagues identified an important public health measure to control the ... [Continue Reading]
Friday morning news briefing: Has Donald Trump left it too late?
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Study raises new questions about viral load in asymptomatic children with COVID-19
New questions are at the forefront as a study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology from nine children's hospitals finds that most asymptomatic children who tested positive for COVID-19 had relatively low levels of the virus compared to ... [Continue Reading]
Malaria-preventive drugs dramatically reduce infections in school children
Use of preventive antimalarial treatments reduces by half the number of malaria infections among schoolchildren, according to a new analysis published today in The Lancet Global Health. SOURCE: Children's Health News -- ScienceDaily - Read entire ... [Continue Reading]
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