Most (94%) older children and adults with cloacal exstrophy are managed by incontinent diversion or clean intermittent catheterization.| Pediatrics Nationwide
A subset of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma (NBL) and primary adrenal tumors develop an adrenal insufficiency (AI)-like phenotype during treatment.| Pediatrics Nationwide
Cellular trajectories deviate early in hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and hypoplastic right heart syndrome (HRHS) development.| Pediatrics Nationwide
The best language learners on the planet are children — especially babies. Your brain is most active in creating the language center of your brain, connecting neurons and creating the highways and pathways for processing language, during infancy. In fact, language learning begins in utero. The developing brain of a fetus starts to wire language circuitry around the speech sounds and rhythms of its mother’s voice. This process accelerates when a baby is born.| Pediatrics Nationwide
Investigators from Nationwide Children’s Hospital created fratricide-resistant and metabolically-enhanced chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) natural killer (NK) and T cells that have cytotoxic effects on many hematologic tumors.| Pediatrics Nationwide
Jessica Nye, PhD, is a freelance science and medical writer based in Barcelona, Spain. She completed her BS in biology and chemistry and MS in evolutionary biology at Florida State University. Dr. Nye studied population genetics for her doctorate in biomedicine at University of Pompeu Fabra. She conducted her postdoctoral research on the inheritance of complex traits at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.| pediatricsnationwide.org
Lung transplantation (LTx) for cystic fibrosis (CF) may trigger bidirectional, long-distance migration of tissue specific stem cells (TSC), causing a chimeric phenotype which could have implications for host defense capabilities.| Pediatrics Nationwide
A deep classification of epigenetic machinery in rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) tumors finds that the mammalian SWItch/Sucrose Non-Fermentable (mSWI/SNF) complexes are essential for the stabilization of RMS.| Pediatrics Nationwide
Investigators from Nationwide Children’s Hospital developed a tool for nurses to use when assessing a neonate’s wellbeing, called the Nurse Perception of Infant Condition (NPIC) Scale.| Pediatrics Nationwide
Black youth enrolled in Medicaid were more likely to experience a first-episode psychosis (FEP) event and be diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorder but less likely to receive key early intervention services than White youth.| Pediatrics Nationwide