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Countering COVID-19 Impacts on Children From Low-Income Households

May 27, 2020
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Baltimore, MD — The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the social, educational and health care disparities already plaguing the nearly 40 million Americans the U.S. Census Bureau estimates are living...

Preclinical Study Offers Hope for Hirschsprung’s Disease

May 24, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — Babies with Hirschsprung’s disease are born with an incomplete or absent gut nervous system. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles investigator Dr. Tracy Grikscheit, runs a...

Coronavirus Infection in Children — It May Not Start With a Cough

May 13, 2020
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Lausanne, Switzerland — Children suffering from sickness and diarrhoea, coupled with a fever or history of exposure to coronavirus, should be suspected of being infected with COVID-19, recommends a...

Paediatric Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) X-Ray, CT in Review of New Lung Disorders

May 12, 2020
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Leesburg, VA — Although the clinical symptoms of new paediatric lung disorders such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), swine-origin influenza A (H1N1), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS),...

Study Shows Drug Saves Lives of Kids Fighting Deadly Immune Disease

May 7, 2020
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Cincinnati, OH — After 20 years of trying, modern medicine remains unable to lower the roughly 40 percent mortality rate for the severe childhood immune disease called HLH (haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis),...

Molecular Basis of Rare Neurological Disorder Reveals Potential Treatment

May 4, 2020
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Chevy Chase, MD — Like people, neurons need to talk to one another. But instead of turning thoughts into words, these cells convert electrical signals into chemical ones. For nearly 30 years, biochemist Edwin...

Promising New Treatment for Recurrent Paediatric Brain Cancer

April 28, 2020
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Houston, TX — Two paediatric brain cancers that are challenging to treat if they recur, medulloblastoma and ependymoma, are the target of a clinical trial using a new type of therapy. A multi-institutional,...

Finding Genetic Ripple Effects in Single-Cell Environment

April 23, 2020
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Cincinnati, OH — Although advances in genetics and genomics reveal numerous disease-associated gene mutations, physicians and researchers still wrestle with the tricky challenge of linking those mutations...

COVID-19 Possibly Striking More Children Than Expected

April 20, 2020
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Tampa, FL — The number of children infected with the coronavirus is far more extensive than what is currently reported — a hidden detail that could vastly underestimate the demand on health care...

Mystery Solved, Rotavirus VP3 is a Unique Capping Machine

April 20, 2020
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Houston, TX — After eluding researchers for more than 30 years, the VP3 protein of rotavirus has finally revealed its unique structure and function to a team led by scientists at Baylor College of...

Premature Birth Linked to the Mother’s Vaginal Microbiome

April 8, 2020
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Lausanne, Switzerland — Pregnant women who deliver early are more likely to have a diverse community of vaginal bacteria, finds a new study published in Frontiers in Microbiology. These findings also...

Inherited Mutation can Predispose Children to a Type of Brain Tumour

April 2, 2020
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Memphis, TN — Investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and the German Cancer Research Center have identified ELP1 as a novel predisposition...

Scientists Modify CAR-T Cells to Target Multiple Sites on Leukaemia Cells

April 2, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — In a new pre-clinical study published this week in the journal Leukemia, the research team of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles investigator Dr. Hisham Abdel-Azim, worked with...

Targeting a Transporter to Treat SHH Medulloblastoma

April 1, 2020
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Memphis, TN — Investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have found that the ABCC4 transporter is critical to the SHH signalling pathway in the brain tumour medulloblastoma. This...

Mother/Infant Skin-To-Skin Touch Boosts Baby’s Brain Development and Function

March 25, 2020
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Boca Raton, FL — As the world prioritizes social distancing to stop or slow down the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), a new study by researchers at Florida Atlantic University demonstrates that mother-infant...

Research Finds Cancer Drug Resistance Genes and Possibly How to Limit Their Effects

March 10, 2020
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Memphis, TN — St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have discovered a gene associated with about half of glucocorticoid resistance in children with the most common pediatric cancer....

Biomarker in Saliva Predicts Childhood Obesity Risk

March 9, 2020
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Nashville, TN — A molecular marker in saliva is associated with the emergence of childhood obesity in a group of preschool-aged Hispanic children. The intriguing discovery, reported in the journal BMC...

Researchers Help Discover New Genetic Variants that Cause Heart Disease in Infants

March 9, 2020
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Tallahassee, FL — Florida State University researchers working in an international collaboration have identified new genetic variants that cause heart disease in infants, and their research has led...

Rare Disease in Children: Key Role of Protein Revealed

March 3, 2020
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Quebec City, Canada — Professor Stéphane Lefrançois, a researcher at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), is working on Batten disease, a neurodegenerative genetic disease that...

Social Isolation During Adolescence Drives Long-Term Disruptions in Social Behaviour

February 21, 2020
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New York, NY — Mount Sinai Researchers find social isolation during key developmental windows drives long term changes to activity patterns of neurons involved in initiating social approach in an animal...

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