Written by Joyce Smith, BS. This study offers a brief, tailored behavioral sleep intervention for children with ADHD and sleep problems that not only improves sleep but also the severity of ADHD symptoms, behavior, daily functioning, quality of life, and working memory, six months after randomization. (more…)
Written by Jessica Patella, ND. This study found that both active and passive smoking, and E-cigarette smoking were positively associated with asthma in the past 12 months in Korean adolescents. However, for lifetime asthma, the study found associations that were significant for active and passive smoking, suggesting a need for evaluating the effects of active and passive E-cigarette smoking as well. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Study finds that associations between screen time and lower psychological well-being were larger among adolescents than younger children. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Prenatal or infant exposure to eleven pesticides, including glyphosate, chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and permethrin, were associated with increased odds of developing autism spectrum disorders in children. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Consumption of fish contaminated with heavy metals during pregnancy may cause the immune systems of offspring to produce antinuclear antibodies and juvenile idiopathic arthritis. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS This study clarifies why children should be exposed to as low RF radiation as possible at school and at home and suggests that wired connections for both the Internet and telephone communications should be preferred to minimize children’s exposure to wireless radiation.
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Written by Chrystal Moulton, Staff Writer. Combined supplementation with B12 and folic acid significantly improved gross motor and problem solving skills in young children between 6-30 months. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Survey analyses of 2,670 middle and high school students across the United States revealed that students who experienced both bullying at school and cyberbullying were more than 11 times as likely to attempt suicide compared to those who had not been bullied.
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Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Researchers, using chaos theory to analyze the biological changes in the brain that drive fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, found that teenagers who were exposed to alcohol while in the womb showed altered neural networks (brain connections) that were consistent with impaired cognitive performance.
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Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Twenty sessions of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of the twenty-four participating autistic children significantly improved autistic symptoms, with a lasting effect of six months. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. This study found that school-age children, who have been prenatally exposed to alcohol, performed significantly lower than typically developing peers particularly in math, reading and spelling. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Comparing an original open-label trial of MTT to a two-year follow-up study revealed that significant improvements in ASD symptoms of participants carried over and even improved further at the end of the two-year follow-up. (more…)
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Three months of alpha lipoic acid supplementation significantly improved vascular tone and clinical and metabolic risk factors, offering a potential beneficial effect on cardiovascular health in overweight and obese youth. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. A 16-week supplementation with the prebiotic oligofructose-enriched inulin significantly altered the intestinal microbiota and decreased body weight and fat and IL-6 levels in the participating obese and overweight children. (more…)
Written by Chrystal Moulton, Staff Writer. Beta-glucan enriched yogurt was demonstrated as a safe and effective way to improve hematological parameters for adaptive immunity in children aged 3-5 years.
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Written by Jessica Patella, ND. This study demonstrates an association between having and adhering to age-appropriate bedtimes during childhood and adolescent body mass index. (more…)
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Compared to placebo, supplementing with a beverage containing 30 grams of wild blueberry significantly improved performance on a series of cognitive tests examining memory and attention in the participating seven to ten year old school children. (more…)
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Microbial Transfer Therapy significantly decreased symptoms of abdominal pain, indigestion, diarrhea, and constipation and increased the relative abundance of Bifidobacterium and Prevotella, bacterial species in the eighteen participating children with autism spectrum disorder compared to the control group. (more…)
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Children who supplemented with probiotic Streptococus salivarius K12 experienced a significant decrease in streptococcal and viral pharyngitis and/or tonsillitis along with significantly less missed school days and days requiring antibiotic treatment. (more…)
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. This study demonstrates an inverse relationship between prenatal residential proximity to agricultural use of potentially neurotoxic pesticides and poorer neuro-development in 7-year-old children. (more…)
