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MRI scans reveal disparate impact of poverty and other ‘toxic stress’ on brains of Black children

01.02.2023

Stressful experiences during early childhood — particularly economic strife — appear to act as a toxic stressor that can alter regions of the brain tied to the processing of stress …

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Pharma

The drug was meant to save children’s lives. Instead, they’re dying

25.01.2023

Emily was combing her baby daughter’s hair when she first felt the lumps. It was a week before Christmas, and her youngest daughter, Isadora, had been feverish and listless, unwilling …

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Health

A new study links social media use to changes in teen brains. Is that a bad thing?

19.01.2023

Today’s teens and tweens have never known a world without social media. There are still a lot of open questions about how sites like TikTok and Instagram may shape their …

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Health

Mental health benefits of gender-affirming hormones for teens persist for two years in new study

19.01.2023

Trans and nonbinary teenagers who receive gender-affirming hormones experience less depression and anxiety and more satisfaction with life than before the treatment, according to a new study published Wednesday in …

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Coronavirus / Health

Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

12.01.2023

The percentage of U.S. kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable dip into the 2021-2022 school year, health officials said Thursday, amid disruptions related to Covid-19 …

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Pediatricians recommend weight-loss drugs and surgery for children with obesity

09.01.2023

Children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13, according …

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Health / In the Lab

In a first, children with rare genetic diseases get mitochondrial transplants from their mothers

21.12.2022

At a far distant point in Earth’s ancient past, two separate, single-celled life forms — an archaeon and a bacteria — became one in an act either of symbiosis or …

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Health

CVS, Walgreens limiting purchases of children’s drugs amid cold and flu season shortages

20.12.2022

Caring for sick children has become extra stressful recently for many U.S. parents due to shortages of Children’s Tylenol and other medicines. Doctors and other experts say the problem could …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Reducing the threat of vaccine-preventable diseases starts with kids

20.12.2022

Americans have been warned — again — about lax attention to routine vaccinations. This time the warning comes from measles, an age-old, vaccine-preventable disease, with an outbreak in central Ohio …

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