About The Study: The results of this cohort study suggest that simply smartphone acquisition at age 13 was not associated with depression or with obesity, but was associated with insufficient sleep at age 14; however, the amount of smartphone use was associated with higher odds of all 3 outcomes. Behavioral interventions like limiting smartphone time and keeping smartphones out of bedrooms at night may protect adolescents from potential adverse health outcomes. Findings offer insights to guide caregivers on adolescent smartphone use and inform policies aimed at protecting youth, such as delaying smartphone acquisition until age 13. 

Australian guidelines recommending egg be introduced into a child’s diet in the first year of life has seen the number of children with egg allergy drop by 17 per cent, researchers have found.

Research led by The University of Queensland and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute examined 7,200 children in 2 Australian population-based studies, to assess if egg allergy rates had declined since the introduction of 2016 guidelines.

The number of patients living with neurodegenerative diseases that affect movement is rising steadily. Yet a large-scale study from the Paris Brain Institute and the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm shows that this is not an emerging health crisis: the trend conceals very different realities, with direct implications for public health policy and research. The findings are published in Neurology.