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Children with cancer may benefit from having a cat or dog ‘pen pal’
Interacting with animals seems to provide emotional support to young people with a serious illness, even when the contact is via letters and not face to face
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Clown visits may shorten the amount of time children spend in hospital
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Long covid causes very different symptoms in children versus teenagers
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Is youth mental health really worse today than it was decades ago?
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Mind
Self-centred, spoiled and lonely? Examining the only child stereotype
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We’re ignoring easy ways to encourage children to be physically active
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How much exercise do children really need 鈥� and what type?
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AI can identify a child’s sex based on their brain activity
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Baby-led weaning makes little nutritional difference vs spoon-feeding
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Should weight loss drugs be used to treat obesity in children?
Two major US healthcare organisations have offered contradictory advice about the use of weight loss drugs in adolescents with obesity, underscoring just how little we know about the effects of these medications
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Technology
The truth about social media and screen time’s impact on young people
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Humans
Evidence of consciousness in newborns has implications for their care
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Gene therapy enables five children who were born deaf to hear
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Periods are starting younger and we’re struggling to pin down why
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