She took to the app to share an activity that kept her daughter busy for 15 minutes straight “in complete silence”. Bless. Parents of toddlers are always on the hunt for an activity that will keep their kid focussed for more than a few minutes at a time. If the activity is calm and quiet,
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For better or worse, pandemic restrictions are lifting across the country. Masks are coming off, people can gather and travel, and there’s a tentative sense of hope in the air (until the next variant comes along, anyway). There are a lot of “new normals” I won’t miss about the last two years (cutting my own
The first trimester of pregnancy is ROUGH. Honestly, all of pregnancy is rough, and it’s not like there are people lined up to warn you about this. Oftentimes women enter into this life-altering journey with little to no knowledge of how difficult it can be. Don’t get us wrong, any mom will tell you it’s
Image: Shutterstock IN THIS ARTICLE Jaundice is a condition that leads to the yellowing of the skin and eyes. It is common in both babies and adults. However, newborn jaundice might cause concern in parents. Jaundice in your baby occurs mostly due to the overproduction of a pigment called bilirubin in their body (1). The
I’m twenty-six years old and I find myself sitting in a small room across from Dr. Sherry, both of us seated in large, comfortable leather chairs. I’ve got my feet curled up under me, and my cold hands wrapped around a mug of decaf coffee. The clock on the wall reads 11:06am, which means I’ve
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Missouri, Children’s Mercy Kansas City and Texas Children’s Hospital has used a new data-driven approach to learn more about persons with Type 1 diabetes, who account for about 5-10% of all diabetes diagnoses. The team gathered its information through health informatics and applied artificial intelligence (AI)
Children in the Greater Philadelphia area face a number of environmental threats to their health, including lead poisoning, asthma from air pollution, and exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals. Now, with funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Penn Medicine have come together to address these
Ear infections are quite a common occurrence in our little ones, but at what point do you need to be concerned about the frequency? Dr. Maithilee Menezes, otolaryngologist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, discusses ear infections and when to be concerned. Learn about the signs to look for to determine if it’s an inner ear
A team of scientists from Turkey has recently evaluated the diversity and composition of gut microbiota in children diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) and acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). They have observed significant alteration in the gut microbiota composition in children with MIS-C. These changes are associated with autoimmunity, metabolic dysfunction, and obesity. The
Millions of Americans have needed hospitalization for COVID-19 since the pandemic began, including hundreds of thousands in the recent Omicron surge. And on top of the bills for their hospital care, a new study suggests that many of them could face hundreds or thousands of dollars in costs after they leave the hospital. The new
A University of Colorado (CU) Cancer Center researcher has found, through extensive data analysis, that the youngest patients with brain tumors – those ages birth to 3 months – have about half the five-year survival rate as children ages 1 to 19. In research findings recently published in the Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Adam Green, MD,
Children previously infected with COVID-19 develop natural circulating antibodies that last for at least seven months, according to a new study led by researchers at UTHealth Houston. The study was published today in Pediatrics. Researchers examined data from 218 children across the state of Texas between the ages of 5 and 19 who were enrolled
On Friday, March 18, NYU Long Island School of Medicine held its first Match Day, a ceremony that takes place at medical schools across the nation during which it is revealed where graduating students will fulfill their medical residencies. Perhaps few graduating classes have been through as much during their medical education—training to become doctors
Hispanic/Latino youths with limited access to nutritionally adequate food – and especially those whose parents were foreign-born — had worse cardiometabolic profiles than their “food secure” counterparts, according to a study published in Pediatrics. Until now, little was known about the role of food insecurity on youths’ physical health. Given the increase in food insecurity