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Here are Healio's top peer-tested stories from the International Liver Congress 2022, which highlight updates on the outbreak of acute hepatitis in children, hepatitis elimination strategies, antiviral combinations and more.
An outbreak of acute, severe hepatitis of unknown etiology in children has grown to 894 cases across 33 countries, according to data presented during a media briefing.
“As of June 20, we now have 894 probable cases reported in 33 countries in five WHO regions,” Philippa Easterbrook, MD, senior scientist at the Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programs
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The design of integrated adolescent mental health care design should address needs and preferences of patients and parents/guardians. Read more ...
Children under ten in London are set to be offered polio booster vaccines after the virus returned to the UK for the first time in 40 years. Health chiefs declared the national... Read more ...
Police have interviewed the parents of a baby who was found dead at a home in Sydney's west. Read more ...
The vanishing-message app introduced its first parental controls on Tuesday - but parents still won't be able to read their children's conversations. Read more ...
Chelsea Mooney was 17 when she died in a Camhs unit last year, following a self-harm incident. Read more ...
Behavioral scientists have long researched how to help children cope with extreme adversity - such as poverty or exposure to violence. Yanping Jiang, a researcher at the... Read more ...
We see a lot of talk about states wanting to "secede" from the United States, but apparently Americans aren't waiting for it to happen and are taking matters into their own... Read more ...
Before young children learn to speak, crying is their only means of vocal communication. But do adults know when a baby is in pain as opposed to being mildly uncomfortable? A... Read more ...
Cystic fibrosis remains an incurable genetic disorder which impairs lung function and significantly reduces life expectancy. Read more ...
The current study reports some of the scientific, ethical, and legal considerations that will support the inclusion of pregnant women in future research. Read more ...