Pediatrics and Disabilities: Child Health Conditions: Publications and Documents
Summary
The Pediatric: Child Health, Disability and Medical Conditions category on Disabled World offers a range of publications concerning the well-being of children, particularly those with disabilities or specific health needs. These articles cover diverse topics such as developmental milestones, childhood illnesses, genetic disorders like Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, and various physical and cognitive impairments. The content aims to provide valuable information, potential insights, and practical knowledge that could be helpful for parents, caregivers, educators, healthcare professionals, individuals with disabilities themselves, and seniors interested in understanding childhood health challenges and related support systems. While not articles listed are explicitly peer-reviewed in a formal academic sense, the information serves as a resource for navigating the complexities of child health and disability.Searching the Database
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| How to Make a Baby Stop Crying Using Transport Response Comparing the effects of the transport response, the relaxed reaction while being carried, with motionless maternal holding or rocking and examining if the effects persist with longer carrying in infants. | ||
| Coaxing Kids Through Vaccinations: Pain Expectation is Pain Reality for Children University of California Riverside researchers examine how expectation of pain influences pain experience in children. | ||
| Types of Genetic Mutations Associated with Nephrotic Syndrome Identified By analyzing most common genetic variants scientists aim at improving diagnosis and treatment for nephrotic syndrome which presents high resistance to drugs and relapse in post-transplant scenario. | ||
| Siblings of Cot Death Victims Have Four Times SIDS Risk Researchers calculated incidence of SIDS in younger siblings compared to the general population and found younger siblings of SIDS victims had four-fold increased risk of SIDS compared to the general population. | ||
| Jaundice in the Newborn Baby Jaundice is actually a symptom not a disease, it is recognized primarily by the yellow discoloration of the skin. | ||
| Increased Risk for Abuse for Children with Specific Birth Defects Research shows children born with cleft lip or palate and spina bifida at increased risk for abuse before the age of 2. | ||
| Childhood Trauma Symptoms and Behavior Information Trauma symptoms manifest very differently in babies and toddlers than in children who are older, adolescents and adults. | ||
| CHOPS Syndrome - New Genetic Disorder Found in Children Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia identify CHOPS syndrome, a new genetic disorder caused by AFF4 gene mutations affecting early human development. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Baby Formula Linked to Higher Arsenic Levels Than Breast Milk Research finds formula-fed infants face higher arsenic exposure than breastfed ones, highlighting risks from formula powder and tap water contamination. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Bad Behavior in Kids Often Points to Later Problems If bad behavior is prolonged or intense, the child may have conduct disorder, or a psychiatric problem that could be a harbinger of antisocial behavior. | ||
| Rihanna and Taylor Swift Music Eases Kids Pain after Surgery Study shows pediatric patients who listened to songs by Rihanna, Taylor Swift and other singers had significant reduction in pain after major surgery. | ||
| Factors Causing Multiple Disabilities Among Children Documented evidence-based statistics pharma-media never wants public to know prove link between fetal iatro-teratogenecity and multiple forms of disabilities among new born and unborn babies. | ||
| Progeria Study Unlocks Keys to Heart Disease in Aging Peer-reviewed study reveals how progeria's toxic protein damages arterial muscle cells, offering insights into both rare disease and normal cardiovascular aging. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Nightmares Can be a Sign a Child is Being Bullied A study finds victims of bullying are at increased risk of experiencing sleep disturbances such as nightmares. | ||
| Toxic Chemicals: Children and the Environment Article looks at some of the toxic substances found in the environment today and their possible effects on children. | ||
| What Age Should Children be Able to Hop on One Leg? Normative data for different exercises like hopping or running enables parents and experts to gauge motor skills of young children objectively and identify abnormalities at an early stage. | ||
| Why Babies Cry: Recognizing Pain, Anger and Fear in Infants Research reveals how infant eye movements and cry patterns differ for pain, anger, and fear, helping parents and caregivers recognize baby crying causes. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Children, Medicaid and Psychiatric Services Children who experience significant forms of psychiatric disabilities may have needs that require services and supports that go beyond their family members abilities to meet. | ||
| Child Abuse: Information, Types, Prevention Child Abuse is defined as failing to do something that results in harm to a child or puts a child at risk of harm. Child abuse can be physical, sexual or emotional. Neglect, or not providing for a child's needs, is also a form of abuse. | ||
| Childhood Mental Health Disorders: Types and Information Information regarding childhood mental health disorders that have the potential to disrupt daily life at school at home or in the community. | ||
| Understanding Child Temper Tantrums Information regarding temper tantrums in children and knowing when disruptive behavior is typical or a sign of a serious mental problem. | ||
| Why Children Tend to Get Sick So Often Studies show key cell signals inhibit growth of essential immune cells early in life blocking this signaling could lead to improving an infants response to infection. | ||
| Recognizing Signs of Child Abuse and Neglect Learn the key signs of child abuse and neglect to help protect vulnerable children, including those with disabilities, from unnoticed harm. | ✓ ✓ | |
| How and When to Toilet Train Kids Parents often ask doctors for advice on toilet training young children, and a new article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal summarizes current approaches and evidence to help physicians respond to these queries. | ||
| Treating Children's Eye Infections Without Surgery Medical management may be preferred over surgery for children with orbital cellulitis an acute infection of the tissues surrounding the eye. | ||
| Curing Deadly Childhood Diarrhea Diarrhea is frequently a symptom of another disease such as cholera and rotavirus and turns deadly in children who rapidly lose body fluids. | ||
| Raising a Child to Not be a Bully Parents can play a key role in decreasing the chances that their son or daughter will harass or intimidate other children. | ||
| Infants Wake up Taller Measuring the link between daily growth and sleep show the two are inextricably linked. | ||
| New Anti-Bullying Act Missing Teeth Multiple studies indicate that fat children are the group being most bullied. | ||
| Phelan-McDermid Syndrome and Shank 3 Mutations Phelan-McDermid syndrome is characterized by average to accelerated growth low muscle tone moderate to profound intellectual disability severely delayed speech as well as some dysmorphic feature. | ||
| Combating Childhood Heart Disease Children can develop a condition called heterotaxy in which the heart is severely malformed. | ||
| Tonsillectomy in Children Tonsillectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures in the United States with over 530000 procedures performed annually in children under 15 years old. | ||
| Not All Infant Formulas are the Same - Differential Weight Gain Effects Weight gain of formula fed infants is influenced by the type of formula the infant is consuming. | ||
| Standard of Care for Premature and At-Risk Babies Medical standard of care for premature and at-risk infants in the NICU, including equipment, staffing, MRI-based diagnostics, and therapeutic cooling advances. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Unexplained Childhood Disorders Parents of children with undiagnosed learning disorders developmental deficits and congenital abnormalities face psychological and social challenges. | ||
| Screen Time Over Two Hours and Child Psychological Risk Research finds children with more than two hours of daily screen time face higher psychological difficulty scores, regardless of their physical activity level. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Children's Agitation After Surgery May be Preventable Temporary combativeness after surgery, a complication affecting up to half of anesthetized children may be preventable with drugs. | ||
| Kids With Chronic Illness or Disability More Apt to Be Bullied Students living with a disability or chronic illness are more likely to be victims of bullying at school. | ||
| Unemployment Linked with Child Maltreatment Researchers directly linked an increased unemployment rate to child maltreatment one year later. | ||
| Daycare Puts Children with Lung Disease at Risk for Serious Illness Exposure to common viruses in daycare puts children with chronic lung conditions at risk for serious respiratory infections. | ||
| Absence of Father Linked to Earlier Puberty in Certain Girls Girls in homes without a biological father are more likely to hit puberty at an earlier age. | ||
| Bullying From the Schoolyard to the Workplace Workplace bullying mirrors schoolyard bullying and causes serious mental health issues including anxiety, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder in employees. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Treating Teenage Self Injury Treating patients who engage in a disturbing self-injury behavior known as self-embedding. | ||
| Prenatal Exposure to Pesticides Linked to Attention Problems Children exposed to organophosphate pesticides while still in the womb more likely to develop attention disorders. | ||
| Sotos Syndrome - A Rare Genetic Disorder Sotos syndrome is a variable genetic disorder characterized by excessive growth before and after the person is born. | ||
| Brain Cooling Blankets for Oxygen Deprived Newborn Babies Brain cooling therapy using chilled blankets reduces the risk of cerebral palsy and long-term disability in newborns who suffer oxygen deprivation during birth. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Medicating Children for Sleep Disorders Wide array of medication common practice for insomnia in children receiving mental health treatment. | ||
| Effects on Children from Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina effects on children: Resilience and gender. | ||
| Breast Milk Transmits Drugs and Medicine to Baby Information on whether women who taking drugs or medicines should breast feed their babies. | ||
| Radical Changes in Child Welfare Services Needed to Prevent Abuse Radical changes are needed to improve assessments and support for families where there are concerns about parental abuse. | ||
| Pediatric Mobility Aid Related Injuries Association between injury and type of mobility aid result of limitations of children using the various aids. | ||
| Treatment for Children with Vesicoureteral Reflux Treatment for vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) when urine flows backwards into the kidneys from the bladder. | ||
| AAP Advocating for U.S. Pediatricians to Perform Certain Types of Female Genital Mutilation New policy statement issued by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) essentially promotes female genital mutilation. | ||
| Preventing Child Bullying - Parental Involvement Decrease the likelihood your child will become a school bully. | ||
| Advances in Drugs for Childhood Cancer New class of compounds targeting a protein implicated in promoting a variety of cancers. | ||
| Best Treatment for Childhood Epilepsy Anti-seizure medications ethosuximide is the most effective treatment for childhood epilepsy. | ||
| Prenatal Screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy too Costly Is prenatal screening for rare diseases like spinal muscular atrophy too costly. | ||
| Increase in Childhood Chronic Health Conditions Rate of chronic health conditions among children in the U.S. increased from 12.8 percent in 1994 to 26.6 percent in 2006. | ||
| Teens With Suicidal Thoughts - Family Therapy Helps Best Adolescents with suicidal thoughts and depression had reduction of symptoms when treated with family therapy than standard treatment. | ||
| SIDS May Be Caused by Low Production of Serotonin in Brainstem Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) linked with low production of serotonin in the brainstem. | ||
| ADHD and Health Problems for Mixed-handed Children Mixed-handed children more likely to have mental health language and scholastic problems. | ||
| American Babies Born Smaller U.S. infants are getting smaller according to researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. | ||
| It Matters Where Low Income Families with Special Needs Kids Live Caring for a child with special health care needs usually means higher medical expenses for a family. | ||
| Puberty Puts Teens at Risk for Early Heart Disease Research shows Canadian teens in puberty face rising heart disease risks like high blood pressure and cholesterol, urging early lifestyle changes for long-term health. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Internet Addiction in Children Addiction to the Internet can negatively impact school performance family relationships and childrens emotional state. | ||
| Global Preterm Birth Statistics and Mortality Rates Analysis of 13 million annual preterm births worldwide, examining regional mortality rates, risk factors, and health complications in premature infants. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Infantile Scoliosis: Serial Casting Effectively Corrects Spinal Curves in Young Patients Early casting treatments can successfully correct progressive infantile scoliosis, offering a safe, effective alternative to surgery for young children. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Pediatric Care Adverse Drug Events Side effects and accidental overdoses of medications are a common complication of outpatient care in children. | ||
| Screening Lowers Severe Jaundice Risk in Babies Screening all newborns for excessive bilirubin in the blood can significantly decrease the incidence of severe jaundice. | ||
| Childhood Bone Cancer - New Hope Ewings sarcoma an often deadly bone cancer that typically afflicts children and young adults. | ||
| Smoking and Binge Drinking Threat to Teen Health Teens who engage in heavy binge drinking also likely to engage in heavy smoking. | ||
| Delays in UK Child Brain Tumor Diagnosis UK children are suffering from preventable levels of disability particularly blindness and premature death due to poor diagnosis of brain tumors. | ||
| Pesticides Linked to Childhood Cancer in Washington Cancer Center finds a higher level of common household pesticides in the urine of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. | ||
| Infants Should be Screened for Developmental Hip Dysplasia Infants with Developmental Hip Dysplasia are often at risk of developing arthritis of the hip as a young adult. | ||
| Why Parents Miss Children's Immunizations Study shows there are several factors that contribute to children missing immunization visits. | ||
| Breakthrough Work On Salt Iodization to Prevent Brain Damage 2009 Pollin Pediatric Research Prize Awarded to Dr. Basil S. Hetzel for discovery that maternal iodine deficiency can cause brain damage in newborns. | ||
| Drug Inhibits Acute Leukemia Cell Growth Researchers find drug that inhibits acute leukemia cell growth - Pre-clinical study shows 50 percent reduced tumor cell burden. | ||
| Sandhoff Disease: General Information Sandhoff disease is a rare genetic lipid storage disorder resulting in the progressive deterioration of the central nervous system. | ||
| Rett Syndrome: Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis and Care A progressive neurologic disorder affecting girls, Rett syndrome causes loss of purposeful hand use, motor regression, and MECP2 gene mutations in most cases. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Infantile Pompe Disease: General Information Pompe disease is a rare, inherited, often fatal disorder that disables the heart and muscles caused by mutations in a gene that makes an enzyme called alpha-glucosidase. | ||
| Metachromatic Leukodystrophy: Diagnosis, Treatment, Information Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is a hereditary degenerative disease transmitted as an autosomal recessive due to sulfatase, a deficiency with excess accumulation of sulfated lipids responsible for metachromasia in various tissues. | ||
| Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome Information Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS) is a rare inherited disorder caused by a deficiency of the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase. | ||
| Krabbe Disease: Facts and Information Krabbe disease is a rare, inherited condition that affects the myelin that covers and protects your nerve cells, causing neurological issues. | ||
| Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD) Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD) is a rare, inherited neurological disorder that causes progressive loss of vision, muscular control, and mental skills. | ||
| Gaucher Disease: General Overview Gaucher disease is an inherited metabolic disorder in which a fatty substance called glucocerebroside accumulates in the spleen, liver, lungs, bone marrow, and brain. | ||
| Farber's Disease: Infantile Type 1 and FD Type 4 Farber's disease is included in a group of inherited metabolic disorders called lipid storage diseases when excess amounts of lipids build up to harmful levels. | ||
| Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal Syndrome (COFS) Cerebro oculo facio skeletal syndrome is a pediatric genetic degenerative disorder that involves the brain and the spinal cord that begins before birth. | ||
| Short-rib Polydactyly Syndrome Gene Identified Many things go awry in short-rib polydactyly syndrome the fetus develops extra fingers and toes and its skeleton does not grow. | ||
| Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Children This article discusses the key features of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FASD). | ||
| Osgood-Schlatters Disease: Causes, Diagnosis and Treatments Osgood-Schlatters Disease is often found among young athletes, mainly boys and girls between 10-16 years of age. Symptoms can include pain, swelling, and inflammation. | ||
| Decline in Child Kidney Function Identified Kidney impairment the cause of kidney disease and race are linked to proteinuria the presence of protein in the urine. | ||
| Cleft Lip and Palate in Infants: Causes and Treatment Facts on cleft lip and palate in infants, including how the condition forms during the first trimester, why it happens, and how surgery corrects it. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Severe Pediatric Epilepsy Disorder Cause Found Convulsive seizures in a form of severe epilepsy are generated from within the memory-forming hippocampus. | ||
| Childhood Arthritis - Too Many Children Face the Pain The Arthritis Society uses Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month in March to heighten awareness. | ||
| Information on Classifying Concussions in Children Doctor Yeates of Nationwide Childrens Hospital followed nearly 200 children with concussions for a year. | ||
| SIDS: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Information Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, also known as SIDS is the sudden, unexplainable death of a child who was in a healthy condition. | ||
| Common Childhood Cancer Types Information on common childhood cancers, including leukemias and forms of liver cancer that occur in children. |
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