Medical News | Medical Articles - Children's Health - Nov 30, 2018 Edition

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November 30, 2018     Children's Health     The latest pediatrics news from News Medical

What is the Age Apartheid and How Does it Affect Child Development? The term Age Apartheid denotes the segregation of generations in Britain. New reports have revealed that the United Kingdom is one of the most age-segregated places across the globe. The interactions of people outside their home are almost entirely with members of their own age group and this could have destructive effects on society. Read Full Article Here

Reducing childhood obesity could lower burden of pediatric asthma   Ten percent of pediatric asthma cases could be avoided if childhood obesity were eliminated, according to research reviewing medical records of more than 500,000 children published today in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.         Progress in meningitis lags far behind other vaccine-preventable diseases, analysis shows   The global disease burden of meningitis remains unacceptably high, and progress lags substantially behind that of other vaccine-preventable diseases, warns a new analysis published in The Lancet Neurology.

Study: Bias-based bullying does more harm to students than generalized bullying   A new study finds that bias-based bullying does more harm to students than generalized bullying, particularly for students who are targeted because of multiple identities, such as race and gender. What's more, the study finds that efforts to mitigate these harms are less effective against bias-based bullying.       Scientists focus on epigenetics to identify factors involved in Hispanic childhood obesity   Are there changes that affect genes and fuel a person's propensity to develop obesity? That's a question under study at Texas Biomedical Research Institute. Associate Scientist Melanie Carless, Ph.D., is Principal Investigator of a $3 million, four-year grant from the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases to research this hypothesis.       Banning junk food ads to combat childhood obesity   On the November 23rd, London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced that as of February, all advertisements for food high in fat, sugar and salt will be banned from the London’s tube and bus network. The measure is part of the mayor’s plan to decrease child obesity rates.       High school students less likely to select milk, fruit for lunch when fruit juice is available   High school students participating in school meal programs are less likely to select milk, whole fruit, and water when fruit juice is available, which on balance may decrease the nutritional quality of their lunches, according to a new study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut.

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