Extreme fires will double for today’s children
A forest fire in Greece, 2007. Credit: Carl Osbourn, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Children born today in Europe will live through almost twice as much extreme fire weather as their grandparents. A child born in...
Does drinking juice in childhood increase risk of high blood pressure?
Image credit: pixnio, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Substituting soda, sports drinks and fruit juice with whole fruit may be associated with a lower risk of developing high blood pressure as an adult. Drinking fruit juice and sugar-sweetened beverages from childhood...
New campaign highlights neurodevelopmental disorders
Credit: Caroline Hernandez carolinehdz, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. A new public awareness campaign is seeking to raise understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders. The Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford has today announced the launch of Genes,...