The American Academy of Pediatrics advised the best way to manage asthma in children is to eliminate household triggers. Doctors said reducing exposure to dust mites, mold, and second-hand smoke can be as effective as medications in controlling the disease.
Physicians at Cornell said children with autism have significantly more mutations in their DNA. Doctors found children with autism spectrum disorder had more than twice as many potentially harmful mutations than their unaffected siblings.
A new study suggested a deadly complication from measles is more common than previously thought. Researchers found the neurological disorder SSPE can lay dormant in infected children and become fatal years later. Doctors said children who don’t get vaccinated are putting other children, especially infants, at risk.
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1 Pediatrics
2 PLOS Genetics
3 Infectious Diseases Society of America