TUESDAY, Feb. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) — A key to your baby’s asthma risk may be as close as your laundry room. Canadian research shows that an infant’s exposure to household cleaning products in the first few months of life is tied to heightened odds for asthma by age 3.Continue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) — More than a quarter of all opioid overdoses in the United States involve teenagers, and a full fifth of those cases were likely suicide attempts, new research shows. The findings follow an in-depth analysis of nearly 754,000 American opioid poisoning cases that occurredContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Grandparents can be a bad influence on kids’ weight, researchers say. That’s the upshot of an analysis of 23 studies conducted in the United States and eight other countries by a team from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. TheContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) — With stories about the new coronavirus outbreak flooding the media, it’s easy to get scared. And if you’re scared, your kids might be, too — but they don’t have to be. Honesty and directness are key when talking to your child about thisContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Researchers who have pinpointed an antibody linked to life-threatening autoimmune disorders in children say their discovery could lead to faster diagnosis and treatment of these patients. The investigators identified the myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody in their study of 535 children with centralContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Getting your surly teens off the couch might trigger a long-term turnaround in their moods, new research suggests. “Our findings show that young people who are inactive for large proportions of the day throughout adolescence face a greater risk of depression by ageContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Girls are entering puberty about a year earlier than they did back in the 1970s, according to global data on breast development. The age of breast development — which represents the first clinical sign of female puberty — has declined an average threeContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Smartphones, and being on Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok and the like may be taking a big toll on teens’ mental health, a new survey of collected data on the subject shows. Canadian researchers pored over dozens of studies and said the negative effects ofContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Migraine drugs that might work for adults won’t prevent the debilitating headaches in kids and teens, a new study shows. A number of drugs are used to prevent migraines, but treatment of youngsters has largely been based on the results of adult studies,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2020 (American Heart Association News) — Heart problems are often associated with older people. But every year about 1 in 110 children in the United States are born with congenital heart disease, which include a variety of defects ranging from holes in the heart to malformed orContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Suicidal behavior is declining among U.S. teenagers who identify as LGBT, but the problem remains pervasive. That’s the conclusion of two new studies that tracked trends among U.S. teenagers over the past couple of decades. Over the years, more kids have been identifyingContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) — During the late teens and early 20s, young people may booze it up a lot, but they eventually dial it back, right? A new study study confirms that drinking rates do tend to decrease after college age. But on an individual level, itContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Teaching parents how to talk to their babies could help boost their children’s language development, researchers say. The University of Washington study didn’t look at so-called baby talk, which typically consists of silly sounds and nonsense words. Instead, the researchers focused on what’sContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) — “Dabbing” cannabis concentrate is the type of marijuana experimentation most likely to lead teens into frequent and heavy use of the drug, researchers say. “We really wanted to understand whether the type of cannabis that youth experiment with influences the likelihood that theyContinue Reading