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Risk prediction models including factors such as maternal smoking status, body mass index, and parity, can help predict small-for-gestational age (SGA) during pregnancy, a recent Japan study has found.

While children with brain tumours already suffer from impaired neurocognitive functions, radiotherapy appears to worsen these impairments, a new study has found.

In the paediatric population, children with obesity are especially vulnerable to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a study has found.

Spells, tremors, and irritability are common and early findings in infants with vitamin B12 deficiency, a recent Norway study has found. Prenatal exposure to nitrous oxide, typically given during labour, may be a risk factor.

Daily use of somatropin, a recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH), led to significantly improved growth outcomes, particularly height standard deviation scores (HT-SDSs), in prepubertal children with idiopathic short stature (ISS), according to a recent study.

When it comes to treating children with cerebral palsy, neurodevelopmental therapy (NDT) appears to produce smaller improvements in motor function compared with activity-based and body structure and function interventions, according to a study. Furthermore, NDT is no better than control, and higher-dose is not more effective than lower-dose NDT.

Treatment with a nonhallucinogenic phytocannabinoid, cannabidivarin, is well tolerated in children with Rett syndrome (RTT), according to data from a phase 1 trial. Moreover, it improves seizure control in those whose disease is caused by methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) pathogenic variants.