May 10, 2021
Researchers confirm effectiveness of early screening tool to identify infants with autism, prompting earlier treatment, but key is parental involvement.
April 16, 2015
…regards to maternal and child malnutrition,” said Evette van Niekerk, in the Division of Human Nutrition, faculty of medicine and health sciences at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Undernourished children have an increased risk of falling sick and greater severity of disease. In South Africa, 16 percent of child (under…
May 22, 2019
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found higher blood pressure and pesticide exposures in children associated with a heightened pesticide spraying period around the Mother’s Day flower harvest. This study involved boys and girls living near flower crops in Ecuador.
October 28, 2013
Having children early and in rapid succession are major factors fueling high infant mortality rates in the South Asian countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan where one in 14 births to young mothers ends with the death of the child within the first year, say researchers at the University…
November 14, 2013
…by parents make their children more likely to use welfare, too? Yes, suggests research coauthored by University of California, San Diego economist Gordon Dahl. The question has been a difficult one and has fueled policy debates for decades. On the one hand, people have argued that “of course it’s cultural.”…
June 13, 2019
…Education program cares for children of faculty, staff and students. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications More Than Child’s Play There’s a unique place on campus that is bustling with activity—complete with block tower achievements, finger painting masterpieces, bold singing performances and loud shrieks of laughter. UC San Diego’s…
February 5, 2015
…5 and 8 million children in the United States have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), yet most cases go undiagnosed. To help address this issue, researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based technique to help clinicians and researchers better detect and…
August 14, 2013
…Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health. The grant will fund a longitudinal study designed to track the developmental trajectory in cognitive, academic and brain measures as very preterm children transition from preschool to grade school. Results will provide the foundation…
June 10, 2015
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have launched a clinical trial to investigate the safety and efficacy of an unprecedented drug therapy for autism.
February 14, 2014
…session of attention modification to decrease overeating in obese children.
