FDA approves third dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for kids between 5 to 11 years Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli18 May 2022 9:21 AM ISTThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to include the use...
Vaginal delivery and longer labor duration tied to food sensitization in infants: Study Medha Baranwal17 May 2022 10:30 AM ISTJapan: Vaginal delivery (VD) is associated with an increased risk of food sensitization (FS) in infancy, a recent study in Annals of Allergy, Asthma...
Stress, anxiety and depression during pregnancy may hinder toddler's cognitive development Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli17 May 2022 10:15 AM ISTThis is the first study to shed light on an important link between altered in-utero fetal brain development and the long-term cognitive development...
Case report- Is bowel resection always essential for treating recurrent intussusception in children? Medha Baranwal16 May 2022 7:15 PM ISTChina: Researchers from China have reported the first successful surgical treatment of intestinal lymphoid hyperplasia (ILH)-induced pediatric...
Effectiveness of Pfizer vaccine considerably lower among kids against omicron variant of COVID-19: JAMA Dr. Shravani Dali16 May 2022 12:00 PM ISTNew studies have demonstrated that the estimated effectiveness of BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine among children and adolescents with Omicron is...
More Intense Pain predicts Failure of treatment with antibiotics in kids with Appendicitis: JAMA Dr. Shravani Dali15 May 2022 10:00 PM ISTMore Intense Pain predicts Failure of treatment with antibiotics in kids with Appendicitis, according to a recent study published in the JAMA. ...
Obesity among kids and adolescents associated with high blood pressure: Study Dr. Shravani Dali15 May 2022 7:30 PM ISTAlmost half of the children and adolescents who were enrolled in a paediatric weight management program for obesity also had high BP, according to...
Kids on vegetarian diet are no diiferent than children who eat meat Dr. Nandita Mohan14 May 2022 10:15 AM ISTA study of nearly 9,000 children found those who eat a vegetarian diet had similar measures of growth and nutrition compared to children who eat meat....
Obesity during pregnancy to cause lifelong cardiovascular disease in offspring Dr Priyanka Ahuja14 May 2022 10:00 AM ISTMaternal obesity impairs heart health and function of the foetus according to a new study in mice. The study, published in The Journal of...
Increasing screen time negatively impacts eyes, general health in kids: Study Dr Akriti13 May 2022 10:00 AM ISTDigital screen time was found to have increased for children and adolescents in all the studies examined during the pandemic. The data suggests that...
Parental type 1 diabetes can impact offsprings' cognitive development: PLOS Medicine Medha Baranwal13 May 2022 9:45 AM ISTDenmark: Offspring of mothers with type 1 diabetes (O-mT1D) achieved lower test scores compared to offspring of parents from the background population...
Furosemide has safety issues in all preterm infants at risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli12 May 2022 1:30 PM ISTDENVER: A randomized controlled trial has evaluated the safety of furosemide in preterm infants at risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and found...
