Children with more green space near their homes have significantly stronger bones, a study has found, potentially leading to lifelong health benefits. Scientists found that…
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Cutting air pollution improves children’s lung development, study shows
Reducing air pollution could improve lung function development in children and cut the numbers of young people with significant pulmonary impairments, research suggests. The impact…
View More Cutting air pollution improves children’s lung development, study showsParents report struggle to find antibiotics as UK strep A cases rise
Parents are reporting serious difficulties in obtaining antibiotics for their sick children, amid concerns over UK-wide shortages after rising strep A infections. While the government…
View More Parents report struggle to find antibiotics as UK strep A cases riseRace to control ‘tripledemic’ as cases of RSV in children sweep US and Europe
Before Covid, few people had heard of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Increasingly, though, this common cause of pneumonia and bronchiolitis (airway inflammation) is filling up…
View More Race to control ‘tripledemic’ as cases of RSV in children sweep US and EuropeChildren at risk of strep A in England could be given preventive antibiotics
Primary schoolchildren at risk from a severe form of strep A could be given preventive antibiotics as a blanket measure, in a move described as…
View More Children at risk of strep A in England could be given preventive antibioticsNew NHS genetic testing service ‘could save thousands of children’ in England
Very sick babies and children will be diagnosed and start treatment more quickly thanks to a “revolutionary” new genetic testing service being launched by the…
View More New NHS genetic testing service ‘could save thousands of children’ in EnglandChildhood hepatitis surge ‘probably linked to two common viruses’
Simultaneous infection with two common viruses is thought to explain a recent surge in childhood hepatitis cases, which has led to 12 UK children requiring…
View More Childhood hepatitis surge ‘probably linked to two common viruses’Hearing mother’s voice can lessen pain in premature babies, study suggests
Premature babies appear to feel less pain during medical procedures when they are spoken to by their mothers, researchers have found. Babies that are born…
View More Hearing mother’s voice can lessen pain in premature babies, study suggests