May 29, 2022
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
Data from 44 hospitals in 26 states show that suicide or self-injury and depressive disorders were the primary mental health reasons children received emergency department (ED) or hospital inpatient care after statewide school closures were enacted during the first part of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-adolescent-females-vulnerable-mental-health.html
May 28, 2022
The U.S. News and World Report – Robert Preidt
Do you have a child who refuses to eat anything green? Rewarding them for trying new vegetables may make them more willing to eat them, a new study claims. “It’s important to start eating vegetables from a young age,” said lead researcher Britt van Belkom, from the Youth, Food and Health program at Maastricht University’s Institute for Food, Health and Safety by Design in the Netherlands.
Read More: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-05-09/theres-a-secret-to-getting-kids-to-eat-vegetables
May 28, 2022
Medical X-Press – Meredith Cohn
There are thousands of children across Maryland who not only haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19, but also lack protection from influenza and the kinds of diseases that routine shots long ago made scarce, such as measles and chickenpox.
Read More: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-kids-covid-vaccines.html
May 27, 2022
Rise and Shine – Staff Writer
It seems like everyone has a fitness tracker these days. Even kids are wearing them. But are fitness tracking devices okay for children? There’s no denying that they can help you track your child’s activity levels, but there are downsides to them too.
Read More: https://riseandshine.childrensnational.org/are-fitness-trackers-good-for-children/
May 27, 2022
Harvard Health – Claire McCarthy, MD
The International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohorts Consortium Outcomes Study has been collecting data on almost 40,000 people from the United States, Finland, and Australia. They started enrolling them as children in the 1970s through the 1990s, and have been following them ever since.
Read More: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heart-healthy-habits-for-children-and-teens-lengthen-lives-202205262753
