Pediatrics - Feb 5, 2018 Edition

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February 5, 2018     Pediatrics     The latest pediatrics news from News Medical

Discovery may offer new therapeutic approach for kids with Prader-Willi syndrome   Stem cell researchers at UConn Health have reversed Prader-Willi syndrome in brain cells growing in the lab, findings they recently published in the Human Molecular Genetics.

Smoking and Breastfeeding   Female smokers usually show less interest in breastfeeding as they believe that formula food is a safer alternative. Infants born to women smokers have shown to be prone to lung infections, SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), and asthma.         Physicians use pyridostigmine to reverse pediatric complications from botulinum toxin therapy   Physicians at the Medical University of South Carolina report the first pediatric use of a treatment to reverse complications from botulinum toxin therapy.

Imaging technique used to identify women at risk of premature labor   Ultrasound is traditionally used on pregnant women to study the anatomy, movement and blood flow of the developing fetus, but University of Illinois at Chicago nurse researchers are using the imaging technique to identify women who are at risk of giving birth prematurely.       Indigenous people suffer higher rates of transportation-related injuries in B.C.   Indigenous people in British Columbia suffered transportation-related injuries at a rate 1.89 times higher than the province's total population between 1991 and 2010, a new University of B.C. study has found.       Poor sleep quality may affect children’s weight and eating habits   Several measures of poor sleep quality were associated with higher body mass index (BMI) in children, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27-30.       Historic study involving Simmons Cancer Center shows effectiveness of CAR-T therapy   A historic study involving researchers from UT Southwestern's Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center demonstrates the effectiveness of CAR-T therapy, which uses genetically modified immune cells to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children and young adults. The research appears in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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