FRIDAY, Feb. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Lockdown drills have become a shudder-inducing part of American life, preparing kids to lie low and keep quiet if a gunman chooses to roam their school. But a new study finds these drills help children who’ve been exposed to violence, helping them feelContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Talking about the “good old days” might elicit eye rolls from teenagers, but it could be the key to boosting a preschooler’s language skills, a new study finds. Reminiscing about past events with preschoolers presents young kids with high-quality speech as good asContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Television has been wryly referred to as the “electronic babysitter,” but a new study argues TV or other media could stunt a child’s language development. Children plopped in front of videos for hours on end tend to use phrases and sentences with fewerContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Mercury levels in tuna haven’t changed since 1971, despite efforts to reduce emissions of the toxic metal into the environment, researchers report. Their analysis of nearly 3,000 tuna samples caught in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans between 1971 and 2022 revealed stableContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A shift in parenting early in a child’s development might help curb the symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), new research suggests. When a preschooler exhibits an “excitable or exuberant” temperament, dialing down a “controlling” style of parenting in favor of what’s knownContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More than two dozen toddlers and at least 128 pregnant women received RSV vaccines they should not have gotten, U.S. health officials say. The mixup, reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, follows approval this winter of two vaccines againstContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There is no significant link between premature birth and autism, new research out of Israel suggests. Findings from the study of more than 100,000 deliveries were presented Tuesday at a meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine in National Harbor, Md. AContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Maternal syphilis rates have tripled in recent years, putting thousands of newborns at risk for infection, a new U.S. government report shows. Left untreated, syphilis can damage the heart and brain and cause blindness, deafness and paralysis. When transmitted during pregnancy, it canContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) — Two of the most common pregnancy complications for women, high blood pressure and gestational diabetes, could jeopardize the future heart health of their children, a new study suggests. Researchers found that the children of women who developed either or both of those conditions duringContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Nearly 1 in every 10 women infected with COVID during pregnancy will go on to develop long COVID, a new study says. A little more than 9% of pregnant women developed long COVID six or more months after their initial infection, according toContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Think twice if you’re pregnant and craving a packaged pastry or a take-out burger and shake. That indulgence can do more than cause unwanted weight gain. A new study shows that phthalates, chemicals associated with plastics, can shed from packaging and even fromContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Kids are more likely to lie to their parents if their parents have been lying to them — even with positive “white” lies, a new study shows. But researchers found a difference between encouraging white lies and “instrumental” lies that involve false threatsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — American teenagers cite stress as the leading reason they might get drunk or high, a new report reveals. That only underscores the need for better adolescent mental health care, according to the research team behind the study. Better “access to treatment and supportContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Preterm births linked to “hormone-disruptor” chemicals in plastics cost the U.S. health care system billions of dollars, a new study claims. Daily exposure to phthalates — chemicals used to manufacture plastics — might be tied to nearly 56,000 preterm births in the UnitedContinue Reading