Pediatrics (all articles)
Many predicted some kind of ‘Covid slide’ in learning. Test results show how bad it is.
29 Aug, 2021 | 18:55h | UTCMany predicted some kind of ‘Covid slide’ in learning. Test results show how bad it is – CNN
Report: Learning during COVID-19: Reading and math achievement in the 2020-21 school year – NWEA
Related:
Unvaccinated, unmasked teacher infected more than half of students in class with Covid-19, CDC reports.
29 Aug, 2021 | 18:52h | UTC
The Lancet Series: Active ingredients for addressing youth anxiety and depression.
27 Aug, 2021 | 09:05h | UTCHomepage: Active ingredients for addressing youth anxiety and depression – The Lancet Psychiatry (free registration required for all articles)
See commentary: The benefits and harms of antidepressants for youth depression and anxiety #ActiveIngredientsMH – The Mental Elf
Identifying and integrating active ingredients for mental health
Commentary on Twitter
Sleep, SSRIs, and the mind's eye. All in the new, FREE Active Ingredients for addressing youth anxiety and depression Series from @wellcometrust #mentalhealth https://t.co/lyO1R25zrY pic.twitter.com/KaVmk9x3L2
— The Lancet Psychiatry (@TheLancetPsych) August 20, 2021
Commentary/Podcast: are the AAP guidelines for the evaluation and management of the well-appearing febrile infant the answer to a never ending story?
27 Aug, 2021 | 08:40h | UTCOriginal guideline and commentary: Commentary on the Latest AAP Guidelines for the Febrile Neonate.
Systematic review: The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on child and adolescent mental health.
25 Aug, 2021 | 08:58h | UTCRelated: M-A: Child and youth mental health problems have doubled during COVID-19. (several articles on the subject)
Preventing stillbirth: What’s the latest evidence?
25 Aug, 2021 | 08:38h | UTCPreventing stillbirth: What’s the latest evidence? – Evidently Cochrane
Special collection: Stillbirth prevention and respectful bereavement care – Cochrane Library
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
New @CochraneLibrary Special Collection on #stillbirth prevention and respectful bereavement care: https://t.co/NW37SaUhr3 1/5#stillborn #babyloss #miscarriage #pregnancyloss #infantloss #pregnancyandinfantloss pic.twitter.com/mzIe3Sttwk
— The Cochrane Library (@CochraneLibrary) August 24, 2021
Thirty-Day Outcomes of Children and Adolescents With COVID-19: An International Experience – “Despite negligible fatality, complications including hospitalization, hypoxemia, and pneumonia were more frequent in children and adolescents with COVID-19 than with influenza”.
24 Aug, 2021 | 09:51h | UTCRelated:
Kawasaki Disease and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: An Overview and Comparison.
AAP Guidance: Post-COVID-19 conditions in children and adolescents.
Cohort study: Risk factors for long covid in previously hospitalized children.
Deaths from COVID ‘incredibly rare’ among children.
Perspective | How should schools and daycare treat colds in the covid age? It’s complicated. – “Will every sniffle and cough be treated as potential Covid until proven otherwise?”.
24 Aug, 2021 | 09:53h | UTCHow Should Schools And Daycare Treat Colds In The Covid Age? It’s Complicated. – Romper
Study commentary: How risky for developing psychosis are ‘At Risk Mental States’ in youths?
24 Aug, 2021 | 08:45h | UTCHow risky for developing psychosis are ‘At Risk Mental States’ in youths? – The Mental Elf
Original study: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Psychosis Risk in Children and Adolescents With an At-Risk Mental State – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary on Twitter
Wouldn't it be great if we could identify teens at risk for psychosis & then prevent it?
Trouble is we can't- lit review shows that most "at risk" teens aren't really at risk/predictive tools don't predict accurately.
And the "At Risk" label can burden teens with stigma & meds. https://t.co/1SiBH5tQRz
— Allen Frances (@AllenFrancesMD) August 23, 2021
Review: Managing diabetic ketoacidosis in children.
24 Aug, 2021 | 08:46h | UTCManaging Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Children – Annals of Emergency Medicine
[Preprint] SARS-CoV-2 aerosol transmission in schools: theoretical effectiveness of different interventions – “Combined interventions (i.e., natural ventilation, masks, and HEPA filtration) were the most effective (≥ 30-fold decrease)”.
22 Aug, 2021 | 23:50h | UTCSARS-CoV-2 aerosol transmission in schools: the effectiveness of different interventions – medRxiv
Related: The right way to protect our children and return to in-person learning – CNN
Commentaries on Twitter
Interesting modelling study for schools: (theoretically) most effective is open windows, then masks, then HEPA filter. Would be good to do real world tests though. https://t.co/MDFNqNNUI3 pic.twitter.com/xGSodClipO
— Paul Glasziou (@PaulGlasziou) August 21, 2021
This is not real evidence supporting real policy choices as they are really carried out in the real world.
Instead, this is theoretical bioplausibility spun into a full paper.
I hope folks can still tell the two aparthttps://t.co/znwtiaKZ2g
— Vinay Prasad, MD MPH ?️? (@VPrasadMDMPH) August 20, 2021
NICE Guideline: Antenatal care.
19 Aug, 2021 | 08:53h | UTCAntenatal care – National Institutes for Health and Care Excellence
Nine in ten children with ADHD may experience symptoms into young adulthood.
19 Aug, 2021 | 08:45h | UTCNine in Ten Children With ADHD May Experience Symptoms Into Young Adulthood – Psychiatric News Alert
Original study: Variable Patterns of Remission From ADHD in the Multimodal Treatment Study of ADHD – The American Journal of Psychiatry
Doubts raised about cooling treatment for oxygen-deprived newborns.
19 Aug, 2021 | 08:38h | UTCDoubts raised about cooling treatment for oxygen-deprived newborns – Nature
Original study: RCT: Therapeutic hypothermia may cause harm in moderate or severe neonatal encephalopathy in low-income and middle-income countries.
Opinion | Go Ahead. Vaccinate the Kids. The risk of vaccinating children will never be zero, but the alternative is so much worse.
18 Aug, 2021 | 08:50h | UTCGo Ahead. Vaccinate the Kids. – The Atlantic
[Preprint] Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early child cognitive development: initial findings in a longitudinal observational study of child health.
16 Aug, 2021 | 01:11h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
Preprint on the development of children born before and during the pandemic in the US.
"We find that children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic."
1/https://t.co/NInexSUDAi— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) August 15, 2021
Opinion: “fear of covid-19 in kids is getting ahead of the data”.
16 Aug, 2021 | 01:09h | UTCFear of COVID-19 in Kids Is Getting Ahead of the Data – The Atlantic
Opinion: A call to revise the diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder—diagnoses are for helping, not harming.
16 Aug, 2021 | 00:48h | UTCA Call to Revise the Diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder—Diagnoses Are for Helping, Not Harming – JAMA Psychiatry (free for a limited period)
Commentary on Twitter
Can giving someone a diagnosis (more accurately, a diagnostic label) cause harm? Undoubtedly; an example is discussed in this article https://t.co/13RysG9Yxa In rehabilitation, the term 'functional disorder' often stigmatises, & many labels generate unfair expectations in others
— Derick Wade (@derickwaderehab) August 14, 2021
Changes in food purchases after the Chilean policies on food labelling, marketing, and sales in schools: a before and after study.
16 Aug, 2021 | 00:39h | UTCCommentary: Sugary drink consumption plunges in Chile after new food law – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Related:
UK National Food Strategy: Tax sugar and salt and prescribe veg, report says.
Fiscal policies for diet and the prevention of noncommunicable diseases – World Health Organization
The Lancet taskforce on NCDs and economics (free series and commentaries)
To improve global health, tax the things that are killing us – Financial Times (policies, articles and commentaries)
Reducing cardiovascular disease burden through targeted dietary policies (study and commentaries)
Fiscal policies for the prevention of diseases (study and commentary)
U.S. Study: Ultraprocessed Foods Now Comprise 2/3 of Calories in Children and Teen Diets.
16 Aug, 2021 | 00:41h | UTCTrends in Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods Among US Youths Aged 2-19 Years, 1999-2018 – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Intake of Ultraprocessed Foods Among US Youths: Health Concerns and Opportunities for Research and Policy (free for a limited period)
News release: Ultraprocessed Foods Now Comprise 2/3 of Calories in Children and Teen Diets – Tufts University
Commentaries:
If You Think Kids Are Eating Mostly Junk Food, A New Study Finds You’re Right – NPR
Related:
Cohort Study: Association Between Consumption of Ultra-processed Foods and All Cause Mortality
Research: Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods and Cancer Risk
Randomized Trial: Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain
Ultra-Processed Foods and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in the Framingham Offspring Study
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
Breaking, our new research in @JAMA_current:
Ultraprocessed foods the majority of calories for US children – and going up: now 2/3 of kcal!From 1999 to 2018, the % of calories from ultraprocessed foods eaten by US children increased, from 61% to 67%.https://t.co/Y4DjAqrIug
— Dariush Mozaffarian (@Dmozaffarian) August 10, 2021
Kawasaki Disease and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: An Overview and Comparison.
13 Aug, 2021 | 10:01h | UTCRelated:
Cohort study: Six month follow-up of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children.
Clinical Update: Acute covid-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
Cutaneous findings in SARS-CoV-2-associated Multisystem Inflammatory Disease in Children (MIS-C)
SR: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children related to COVID-19
European guideline and expert statements on the management of narcolepsy in adults and children.
13 Aug, 2021 | 09:02h | UTC
RCT: Evaluation of Moderna mRNA vaccine in adolescents.
12 Aug, 2021 | 09:58h | UTCEvaluation of mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine in Adolescents – New England Journal of Medicine
Related:
Commentaries on Twitter
The mRNA-1273 vaccine was effective in preventing #COVID19 in 12-to-17-year-olds. Immune response was similar to young adults. https://t.co/aC3Dmjqe2T pic.twitter.com/9RxgHApW29
— NEJM (@NEJM) August 11, 2021
The @moderna_tx covid vaccine trial in 3,732 teens, placebo-controlled, published today @NEJM with both excellent safety profile and efficacy vs covid, and immune response as least as good as young adults https://t.co/PVmhjwgwsU pic.twitter.com/3uCmteaWNx
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 11, 2021
M-A: Child and youth mental health problems have doubled during COVID-19.
10 Aug, 2021 | 10:03h | UTCCommentary: Child and youth mental health problems have doubled during COVID-19 – The Conversation
Original study: Global Prevalence of Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Children and Adolescents During COVID-19: A Meta-analysis – JAMA Pediatrics
Editorial: Addressing the Global Crisis of Child and Adolescent Mental Health – JAMA Pediatrics
Related:
More data on the harmful effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of adolescents.
COVID has caused ‘mass trauma,’ worsening mental health globally.
COVID’s mental-health toll: how scientists are tracking a surge in depression
WHO: COVID-19 disrupting mental health services in most countries
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
Many are rightfully sounding the alarm to a youth #mentalhealth crisis. Our meta-analysis of 29 studies w >80,000 youth worldwide in @JAMAPediatrics, shows 1 in 4 youth had elevated depression or anxiety during #COVID19. A thread ? https://t.co/etIdZTHnme
— Dr. Sheri Madigan (she/her) (@sherimadigan) August 9, 2021
NICE Guideline | Management of Acne Vulgaris.
10 Aug, 2021 | 09:00h | UTCAcne vulgaris: management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence