News & Updates

The duration of exclusive or any breastfeeding does not appear to influence the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in infants, according to a study.

Children with hypertension have a higher likelihood of experiencing major adverse cardiac events (MACEs) for the next 13 years compared with their healthy counterparts, as reported in a study.

Children conceived through assisted reproductive technology (ART), particularly fresh or frozen embryo transfer (ET), were more likely to develop leukaemia than those conceived naturally, according to a recent study.

Children and adolescents with overweight and obesity may be predisposed to low back pain, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Intravitreal aflibercept therapy appears to be safe and efficacious in the management of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) through 2 years of age when compared with laser therapy in children who are born preterm or with low birth weight, according to 2-year data from the nonrandomized FIREFLYE trial.

Increased exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the first 2 years of life has been linked to poor attention capacity in childhood.

In children and adolescents, cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness appears to have a protective effect on the risk of incident mental disorders, according to a study.

Children who were exposed antenatally to betamethasone as opposed to placebo are not necessarily at a disadvantage in terms of neurodevelopment outcomes, as shown in a follow-up to the Antenatal Late Preterm Steroids (ALPS) trial.

A recent study has identified three components of familial and potential genetic liability to alcohol use disorder (AUD), namely a nonspecific risk of common internalizing and externalizing disorders, a moderately specific risk of externalizing disorders, and a highly specific AUD risk.