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Youth who are going to develop psychosis can be identified before their illness becomes full-blown 35 percent of the time if they meet widely accepted criteria for risk, but that figure rises to 65 to 80 percent if they have certain combinations of risk factors, the largest study of its kind has shown. Knowing what [...]

California received a C average on health and education for the 9.5 million children in the state, according to the annual State of the State’s Children report card released on Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The report card, scored by researchers at Children Now, covers a range of issues, including health insurance, obesity, asthma, [...]

California received a C average on health and education for the 9.5 million children in the state, according to the annual State of the State’s Children report card released on Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The report also found racial and ethnic health disparities among children in the state. The report card, scored by [...]

Immigrant children are five times as likely as U.S-born children to suffer from lead poisoning in New York City, according to a new Health Department study, and the risk is highest among the most recent immigrants. The new study of children tested for lead poisoning in 2002, published online in the American Journal of Public [...]

Highly publicized events such as school shootings arouse public interest in the effects of media violence exposure on children, yet there is still considerable public debate about whether to take this issue seriously. A recent article in Social Issues and Policy Review summarizes the research on the effects of media violence and convincingly demonstrates the [...]

Children whose mothers have a history of abuse by intimate partners have higher health care needs than children whose mothers have no history of abuse, according to a study conducted at Group Health, a Seattle-based health plan. These needs – expressed in terms of the cost of providing care and use of health services – [...]

Newly published research in the journal Science confirms that institutionalized orphans placed into foster care have much better intellectual development than those who remain behind. The authors say the results have implications for countries “grappling with how best to care for abandoned, orphaned and maltreated young children.” A team of researchers including Nathan Fox, a [...]

Although hundreds of studies link media violence to aggression in children and adolescents, most public policy attempts to reduce children’s media violence exposure in the U.S. have failed. Efforts to restrict children’s access to violent video games have been struck down by the courts as infringing on children’s First Amendment rights. Three Iowa State University [...]

Childhood exposure to severely disadvantaged communities is linked to decreased verbal ability later in childhood, a lasting negative effect that continues even after moving out of the neighborhood, according to research that will be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Living in “concentrated disadvantage” decreases later verbal test scores [...]

New research commissioned by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme, a programme of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), is investigating whether the use of pulse oximetry as a screening test for congenital heart disease, could help save the lives of more newborn babies. Life threatening and significant heart defects apparent at birth account [...]