ADHD takes a toll well into adulthood
The first large, population-based study to follow children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) into adulthood shows that ADHD often doesn't "go away," and that children with ADHD are more likely to have other psychiatric...
Double-jointed adolescents at risk for joint pain
A prospective study by U.K. researchers found that adolescents who are double-jointed—medically termed joint hypermobility—are at greater risk for developing musculoskeletal pain as they get older, particularly in the shoulders, knees, ankles and feet....
Heavy moms-to-be at greater risk of c-section
Researchers from Norway found that women with a pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) of 40 had an increased risk of vacuum extraction delivery or Cesarean section (C-section). Findings that appear in Acta Obstetricia et...
Rare diseases terrifying for new parents
Mother Pieta Harris was elated, then terrified of what lay ahead, when her daughter Matilda was born 14 months ago. Born with a rare neurological condition called Disorder of the Corpus Callosum (DCC), Matilda...
Low vitamin D linked to food allergies
A lack of vitamin D increases the likelihood of food allergy in infants, according to new research by the Institute.
Researchers found infants who are vitamin D insufficient were three times more likely to have...
Hospital burden for kids with intellectual disabilities
New research from the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has shown that children with an intellectual disability or autism are up to ten times more likely to be admitted to hospital than unaffected...
Signs of heart disease seen in newborns of overweight mums
The walls of the body’s major artery - the aorta - are already thickened in babies born to mums who are overweight or obese, finds a small study published online in the Fetal and...
Children more exposed to alcohol promotion than adults
Children in Britain are more exposed to alcohol promotion than adults and need much stronger protection, warn experts.
In an editorial to coincide with publication of the UK’s first independent alcohol strategy, Professor Gerard Hastings...
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV
The number of pregnant and breastfeeding women in Malawi with HIV who started life-saving antiretroviral treatment increased by more than 700 percent in one year, according to a study in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality...
Higher levels of toxic metals found in children with autism
In a recently published study in the journal Biological Trace Element Research, Arizona State University researchers report that children with autism had higher levels of several toxic metals in their blood and urine compared...
