Researchers Identify Cause of Serious Brain Bleeding Condition in Premature Newborns
Salt and water transporters on immature neurons cause brain tissue shrinkage and blood vessel rupture.
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Mass General for Children Investigators Propose Modified Criteria for Identifying Anaphylaxis in Infants and Young Children
Findings support the need for enhanced training of healthcare professionals to recognize and treat anaphylaxis in infants and young children.
Connect to Capacity: Newborn Medicine
Paul Lerou, MD, chief, Newborn Medicine, Mass General for Children (MGfC), and Sergei Roumiantsev, MD, associate chief, MGfC Division of Newborn Medicine, have been working to improve capacity challenges since 2015.
Research Spotlight: How Often Were Adults With Down Syndrome Listed as Do-Not-Resuscitate During the COVID-19 Era?
Stephanie Santoro, MD, Director of Quality Improvement Research for the Down Syndrome Program at Mass General for Children, is senior author of a recent study in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part C, Retrospective Review of Code Status of Individuals with Down Syndrome During the COVID-19 Era.
Research Spotlight: Caregiver Perception of Care Integration in a Single Specialty Clinic for Down Syndrome
How do caregivers view the care integration in a single specialty clinic for Down syndrome?
Study Shows that United States and other Countries Can Do More to Improve Quality of Life for People with Down Syndrome
Responses from 50 countries were analyzed and each country was ranked on how well it supports people with Down syndrome across five domains of wellbeing.
Study Shows that United States and other Countries Can Do More to Improve Quality of Life for People with Down Syndrome
An international group of investigators, led by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, conducted the first-ever survey to measure the quality of life of people with Down syndrome around the world.
“Puffs per month” provide a more accurate picture of adolescents’ exposure to nicotine from e-cigarettes
A recent study indicates that assessing the number of puffs of e-cigarettes taken per month provides a more accurate picture of adolescents’ exposure to nicotine. The research, which was published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research and led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), suggests that “puffs per month” can more accurately capture the nature of e-cigarette binging and the extent of youth tobacco addiction.
Research Spotlight: Evaluating the Implementation of a Pediatric Healthy Lifestyle Program in Primary Care Settings
Meg Simione, PhD, an investigator at Mass General for Children, and colleagues recently published a paper in JAMA Network Open, titled Evaluating the Implementation of the Connect for Health Pediatric Weight Management Program.
Researchers at Mass General for Children Identify a Bacterial Strain that Demonstrates a Potentially Protective Role in Celiac Disease
Researchers identified five microbial strains that appeared to play a protective role against the development of celiac disease, an autoimmune condition that occurs in roughly one percent of the US population.
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