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Fox News Flash top headlines for July 31 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Children under five years of age may harbor up to 100 times as much of the coronavirus in their noses and throats as infected adults and older children, according to a study out of […]
Appendicitis is the most common cause for emergency abdominal surgery in childhood, affecting 80,000 children in the United States each year, but nonoperative treatment options are viable. A study performed by the Midwest Pediatric Surgery Consortium, led by Peter Minneci, MD, and Katherine Deans, MD, co-founders and directors of the Center for Surgical Outcomes Research […]
While the majority of parents recognize the importance of sunscreen, they may not always use best practices to protect children from getting burned, a new national poll suggests. One in 10 parents (11%) say they do not have a specific minimum SPF they use and 3% report they do not use sunscreen for their child, […]
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has accentuated long-standing challenges many families face, has put additional stress on parents that could harm the development of their children, according to a new brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Preexisting stressors such as housing and food insecurity, marital discord and dysfunctional parenting are magnified during a […]
For some children, screen time before bed translates to less sleep. According to a study from the Arizona State University Department of Psychology, media use in the hour preceding bedtime impacts how kids sleep, especially children who struggle to self-regulate their behavior. Frequent media use before bed in these children predicted later bedtimes and less […]
One in four households with children have reported a child experiencing hunger as a result of the COVID-19 health crisis, according to the latest CUNY SPH COVID-19 tracking survey. Many New Yorkers continued to report difficulties in getting the food they needed, but of particular concern is the impact on households with children under the […]
Electronic food vouchers provided young Rohingya children in Bangladeshi refugee camps with better health and nutrition than direct food assistance, according to new research led by Cornell University, in conjunction with the International Food Policy Research Institute. The electronic vouchers are provided by United Nations’ World Food Programme to Rohingya families forcibly displaced into refugee […]
Families in regional and rural NSW have gained virtual parenting support through a live trial led by researchers at UNSW Sydney. The findings were recently published in the journal Behavior Therapy. The trial was aimed at young children aged between 1.5 and 4 years old with ongoing behavioral problems, such as persistent tantrums, defiance, and […]
One of the biggest mysteries of the new coronavirus is its relative harmlessness in most children who get infected. At least part of the explanation may be in the cells lining their noses, according to a new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. The researchers […]
Increasing reports of severe COVID-19 illness in children—coupled with the fact that little is known about how and why the disease may behave differently in this younger population—demand that a set of critical steps be taken now to ensure children get the attention they need, according to an article just published in Pediatric Research. The […]