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Saturday morning UK news briefing: Today’s top headlines from The Telegraph
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Study finds unacceptable mental health service shortfalls for children in high-income countries
Most children with a mental health disorder are not receiving services to address their needs--according to a new study from researchers at Simon Fraser University's Children's Health Policy Centre. SOURCE: News Medical Child Health News Feed - Read ... [Continue Reading]
Report highlights global shortfalls to end HIV infections among children and young women
In the final report from the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free initiative, UNAIDS and partners warn that progress towards ending AIDS among children, adolescents and young women has stalled and none of the targets for 2020 were met. SOURCE: News ... [Continue Reading]
Obesity and Schools — Who’s In Charge?
There are around 100,000 public schools in the USA and, says Brendan Pelsue: […] individual municipalities, are, in most cases, the legal entities responsible for running schools and for providing the large majority of funding through local tax ... [Continue Reading]
Friday morning UK news briefing: ‘Needless’ isolation of children
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Chemotherapy drugs can induce mutations that lead to relapse in pediatric ALL patients
Chemotherapy has helped make acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) one of the most survivable childhood cancers. SOURCE: News Medical Child Health News Feed - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Geneticists pinpoint how a mutation causes devastating childhood cancer and successfully target tumor cells with tailored drug
Geneticists have discovered how a specific genetic mutation (H3K27M) causes a devastating, incurable childhood cancer, known as diffuse midline glioma (DMG), and -- in lab studies working with model cell types -- successfully reverse its effects to ... [Continue Reading]
Obesity and Establishments
This is by no means comprehensive coverage of the law as it pertains to obesity. The object is to look at a few selected moments in history because they are typical, or atypical; and the other object is to grasp the big picture. A publication from ... [Continue Reading]
Thursday morning UK news briefing: Pingdemic disrupts food supplies
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Use of topical fluorides for caries prevention in primary teeth
Alexandria, Va., USA - Parach Sirivichayakul, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, presented the poster "Preventing Approximal Caries in Primary Teeth With Topical Fluorides" at the virtual 99th General Session & Exhibition of the International ... [Continue Reading]
Breastfeeding, even for a few days, linked to lower blood pressure in early childhood
Babies who were breastfed, even for a few days, had lower blood pressure at 3 years of age than children who had never been breastfed. Toddlers who had been breastfed had lower blood pressure regardless of their body mass index or their mothers' ... [Continue Reading]
Scientists link frailty and neurocognitive decline in childhood cancer survivors
Scientists have shown that frailty contributes to neurocognitive decline in young adult survivors of childhood cancer. SOURCE: Children's Health News -- ScienceDaily - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Defining Obesity Under the Law
After the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) had been in effect for a while, it was amended in 2008, but still some members of Congress believed that various judicial decisions had “improperly narrowed the broad scope of protection” ... [Continue Reading]
Wednesday morning UK news briefing: What counts as a critical worker?
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Study looks into COVID-19 partial school closures and mental health problems among students
A new study published in JCPP Advances has compared the wellbeing of UK students who remained at home for schooling during the first lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic with those who accessed school in person. SOURCE: News Medical Child Health ... [Continue Reading]
More than 1.5 million children lost a primary or secondary caregiver due to the COVID-19 pandemic
More than 1.5 million children around the world are estimated to have lost at least one parent, custodial grandparent, or grandparent who lived with them due to death related to COVID-19 during the first 14 months of the pandemic, according to a new ... [Continue Reading]
Antibiotic prescriptions for kids plummet during pandemic
A new study finds that medications prescribed for children dropped by more than a quarter during the first eight months of the pandemic compared to the previous year, with the steepest declines in infection-related medicines like antibiotics and ... [Continue Reading]
Tuesday morning UK news briefing: Goodbye carrot, hello stick as jab rollout slows
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Children of obese mothers at increased risk of fatty liver disease
Children and young people whose mothers had a BMI greater than 30 during early pregnancy are at an increased risk of fatty liver disease. SOURCE: News Medical Child Health News Feed - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Monday morning UK news briefing: PM urged to end ‘pingdemic’
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Survival for babies born with congenital anomalies depends on place of birth
Survival for a baby born with a birth defect – otherwise known as a congenital anomaly – is dependent on where you are born, a new study reveals. SOURCE: News Medical Child Health News Feed - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
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