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Egg-allergic children who undergo egg oral immunotherapy and achieve sustained unresponsiveness eat more egg and have fewer symptoms five years later

AAAAI: Egg Oral Immunotherapy Shows Sustained Benefit in Children

All children with sustained unresponsiveness ingested concentrated and baked egg
From 2013 to 2017

Rate of Opioid Rx Stable After Pediatric Outpatient Surgery

However, maximum available take-home dose steadily declined from 2013 to 2017
Exposure to several chemicals before and after birth appears to be associated with a decrease in lung function later in childhood

Environmental Exposures Before, After Birth Tied to Lung Function

Exposure to parabens, phthalates, and perfluoroalkyl substances tied to lung function at ages 6 to 12 years
A breakfast-in-the-classroom initiative increases participation in the federal School Breakfast Program but has an unintended consequence of increasing the incidence and prevalence of obesity

Classroom Initiative Ups Participation in School Breakfast

But program has unintended consequence of increasing incidence, prevalence of obesity
Mothers with a history of having a child taken into care by child protection services have an increased risk for inadequate prenatal care in a future pregnancy

Prenatal Care Inadequate for Moms With Child Taken Into Care

Moms whose first child is placed in care have higher rates of inadequate prenatal care in next pregnancy
Between 1997 and 2014

1997 to 2014 Saw Large Hike in Screen Time for Ages 0 to 2

Television accounted for most screen time in children aged 0 to 2 and 3 to 5 years in 2014
The U.S. government may have to take steps to reduce vaccine exemptions for children if states do not do it

FDA Head Says Feds May Intervene to Cut Vaccine Exemptions

If states do not change lax vaccine laws, federal authorities may be forced to take action
Children with amblyopia have significantly lower mean peer acceptance and physical competence scores at age 3 to 7 years

Lower Self-Perception Observed in Children With Amblyopia

Mean peer acceptance, physical competence scores lower at ages 3 to 7 compared with controls
For children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Obesity Linked to Adverse Events in Children With Leukemia

Obesity ups risk for treatment-requiring hypertension, insulin-requiring hyperglycemia
Children with recurrent tonsillitis have smaller germinal centers

Smaller Germinal Centers Identified in Recurrent Tonsillitis

Group A Streptococcus-specific CD4+ germinal center T follicular helper cells underrepresented