children

May 5, 2016May 5, 2016

Northwestern Scientist Wins Award to Develop Safer Treatment for Pediatric Crohn’s Patients

Two Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine scientists, Jeffrey Savas and Arun Sharma, have won the 2015 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards for projects into autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Crohn’s disease in ... Read more

February 17, 2016February 17, 2016

Children with Ulcerative Colitis May Be Safely Treated with Multimatrix Mesalamine

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A study from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reported that children and adolescents with ulcerative colitis (UC) reacted to multimatrix mesalamine treatment in ways similar to adults, with the ... Read more

January 28, 2016September 14, 2016

Gut Microbiota of Children May Be Adversely Affected by Antibiotics

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Antibiotic use in early childhood interferes with normal development of the intestinal microbiota, according to researchers at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in the study “Intestinal microbiome is related to lifetime ... Read more

October 21, 2015October 21, 2015

Study Shows that Different Treatments for Children with Crohn’s Disease Do Not Entirely Restore Healthy Gut Microbiota

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In a recent study published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, a team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania performed an analysis of the gut microbiota of children ... Read more

September 10, 2015September 10, 2015

CHOP Researchers Discover Genetic Variants Linked to Very Early Onset IBD in Children

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A study led by researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) revealed specific genetic variants carried by children with very early onset of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The study ... Read more

March 18, 2015March 18, 2015

Younger Immigrant Children in Canada Found to Be at Higher Risk for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) in Canada recently showed that children of immigrants to Canada have an increased ... Read more