MONDAY, March 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Bringing home a baby should be an exciting and blissful time, but for many new parents, colossal out-of-pocket costs for pregnancy and delivery take the joy out of this milestone. Some low-income families spend close to 20% of their annual income on medicalContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left your children confused and frightened, there are several ways to help them feel more secure, a psychologist says. First and foremost: Talk to your kids, and be honest, said Christopher Lynch, director of Pediatric Behavioral MedicineContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Pfizer Inc. announced Tuesday that it has launched a Phase 2/3 clinical trial of its COVID antiviral pill known as Paxlovid in children ages 6-17. A news release from the company said the trial will assess the safety and efficacy of the drugContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Kids who’ve suffered a concussion are at heightened risk of mental health issues in the aftermath, a large new study suggests. The researchers found that compared with their peers, children and teenagers with a past concussion were 39% more likely to be diagnosedContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) — School mask mandates helped protect students and staff last fall as the Delta variant spread, a new government report shows. Ironically, the finding arrived just as many U.S. school districts have dropped masking rules. In the study released Tuesday by the U.S. CentersContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) — There are serious mental harms and high financial costs associated with so-called conversion therapy for LGBTQ people, researchers report. Conversion therapy attempts to make lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people “straight.” Its safety and effectiveness has been discredited in multiple prior studies.Continue Reading
MONDAY, March 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — People who were born with a heart defect have a nearly doubled risk for severe COVID-19 illness or death and need to get vaccinated, wear masks and take other steps to protect themselves, researchers report. Those patients at the highest risk for severeContinue Reading
THURSDAY, March 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Each year, RSV sends as many as 58,000 kids under age 5 to U.S. hospitals, but a vaccine in development may dramatically reduce the risk for severe illness. RSV, short for Respiratory Syncytial Virus, typically circulates in fall, winter and spring, causing congestion,Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you’re a parent using Similac, Alimentum or EleCare infant formulas, here’s updated facts on the ongoing product recall. As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigates, Abbott Nutrition has recalled certain powdered formulas made at its Sturgis, Mich., facility. The products haveContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For reasons that remain murky, new research warns that a spike in social media use during the pandemic might have worsened tic disorders in children. Tics are sudden twitches, movements or sounds that people do repeatedly because they can’t control their body. InContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Fresh data shows that Pfizer’s COVID vaccine is far less powerful at preventing infection among children ages 5 to 11 than teens, a finding that could leave some parents of younger children worried. The vaccine — the only one authorized for that ageContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — First-time moms and new mothers of twins may be among those at greatest risk of postpartum depression symptoms, a large new study suggests. Postpartum depression is a common illness. In the United States alone, about one in eight women report depression symptoms soonContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A drug developed for an autoimmune disease shows promise in treating a potentially life-threatening inflammatory condition in children who’ve had COVID-19, researchers say. The rare condition is called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). It typically develops weeks to months after a childContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Early on in the pandemic doctors observed that some children and teens infected with COVID-19 went on to develop a relatively rare, but potentially life-threatening, complication known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). But new research out of the U.S. Centers forContinue Reading