For National Birth Defects Prevention Month, Dr. Catherine Spong calls attention to the ongoing needs of Zika-affected families and for the enhancement and expansion of research efforts to monitor the virus’s effects on childhood into young adulthood.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that the blood protein tau could be an important new clinical biomarker to better identify athletes who need more recovery time before safely returning to play after a sports-related concussion.
Children of obese parents may be at risk for developmental delays, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health.
Parents previously investigated for child abuse, showed more positive responses to their baby’s social and emotional needs after completing a home-visit program, according to a study supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Drugs capable of activating silenced genes improve survival and growth outcomes in a mouse model of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a rare and incurable childhood disease that can lead to life-threatening obesity.
Infants whose mothers smoked cigarettes throughout pregnancy had higher levels of an inflammation marker called interleukin-8 at birth, according to an NICHD study.