Highlights Archive

Date	Article
May 2019	PSAs Feature Kids With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
April 2019	Is That Medication Safe When Breastfeeding? San Diego Doctors On High Alert For Measles Prenatal Anti-Anxiety or Sleeping Pills and ADHD in Preschoolers Group B Streptococcus and Platelets: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Surge Of Kawasaki Disease Continues In San Diego County
March 2019	How the Microbiome Could Be the Key to New Cancer Treatments Proof of Pimple: Mouse Model Validates How "Good" and "Bad" Bacteria Affect Acne Quiet Heroes: Caregivers of Children with Disabilities Face Big Pressures, Rewards Middle-school Screening Uncovers Diabetes, High Cholesterol DNA that Doesn't Encode Genes May Still Influence Inflammatory and Infectious Disease Risk
February 2019	What is Kawasaki Disease?: 16 California Children Diagnosed With Condition That Can Cause Heart Failure Only Women Speakers at Microbiome Conference Drugs That Modify Gene Expression Show Promise For Autism
January 2019	What Every Mom Should Know About Using Marijuana While Breastfeeding Pregnant Women Taking Probiotics May Have Different Breast Milk Novel Autism Mouse Model Based on an Epigenetic Gene Developed Maternal Programming During Pregnancy Induces Long-Term Postpartum Obesity Cystinosis Research Foundation Announces Federal Drug Administration Approval for First Human Clinical Fecal Transplants More Successful from "Super-Donors" Pregnant Women Taking Probiotics May Have Different Breast Milk Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They're Saying
December 2018	Mother's Depression Might Do the Same to Her Child's IQ Environmental Factors May Influence Kawasaki Disease Incidence
November 2018	Complex Sugars and Microbiome in Mother's Milk Influence Neonatal Rotavirus Infection New Research Identifies Genetic Variants Linked Separately to ADHD and Autism Speech Issues Scientists Re-create Baby Brain Readings in a Dish Save the Germs
October 2018	Four Children Admitted to San Diego With Rare Airborne Illness Mother's Depression Might Do the Same to Her Child's IQ Researchers to Study Binge Eating Disorder Treatment in Veterans
September 2018	Resistance Threatens Recent Success Seen in Battle Against Malaria THC from Marijuana Stays in Breast Milk for Up to 6 Days
August 2018	Researchers Identify Potential Diagnostic Test for Kawasaki Disease
July 2018	UC San Diego Researchers Receive Funding to Pursue Novel Stem Cell-based Treatments
June 2018	Neanderthal 'minibrains' Grown in Dish Researchers Uncover Possible Link Between Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease
May 2018	Big Data from World's Largest Citizen Science Microbiome Project Serves Food for Thought This Simple Technique Gives C-Section Babies All the Benefits of a Vaginal Delivery Repurposed Drug For Zika
April 2018	What's Living In You? More Than Half Your Body is Not Human How Are the Bacteria in Our Guts Related to Each Other? New Technique Provides Insight Mother's Depression Might Do the Same to Her Child's IQ Skin-to-Skin to Breastfeeding: Jacobs Medical Center Receives Baby Friendly Designation
March 2018	What Do Spacecraft, Newborns and Endangered Shellfish Have in Common? Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cells Amplify Allergic Asthma Responses
February 2018	Children Affected by Prenatal Drinking More Numerous than Previously Estimated
January 2018	The Milk Moonshot- Lars Bode 8 Reasons Parents Don't Vaccinate (And Why They Should) These Advances in DNA Research Could Change Crime-Fighting Forever
December 2017	UC San Diego Researcher Named Semi-Finalist for Women's Safety XPRIZE
November 2017	A Steady Increase in Women Leading the Biggest Research Grants
October 2017	Genetic Adaptations to Life at High Altitude Transplanted Hematopoietic Stem Cells Reverse Damage Caused by Neuromuscular Disorder
August 2017	Help UC San Diego Scientists Study Link between Body Bacteria and Autoimmune Diseases Novel Stem Cell-Derived Model Created of Inflammatory Neurological Disorder Mapping the Human Microbiome Single Strep Bacteria Protein Sets Off White Blood Cell's Early Warning System UC San Diego Scientists Invent New Tool for the Synthetic Biologist's Toolbox Can I Test the Health of My Gut Microbiota? From ancient tribes to modern civilization, what do our microbiomes say about us? Are Dogs Probiotic?
May 2017	Hospital bacteria move from staff to patients Breast milk donor bank to debut in San Diego Paediatrics: Are human milk oligosaccharides the magic bullet for necrotizing enterocolitis? How Breast Milk May Help Babies Fight Off A Deadly Infection
April 2017	The Human Impact of Machine Learning in Medical Diagnostics & More In Four Related Papers, Researchers Describe New and Improved Tools for Stem Cell Research Birth Weight is Risk Factor for Fatty Liver Disease in Children Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Awards Winner in Pediatrics
March 2017	What Does Congenital Zika Syndrome Look Like? A Dose of Research With tweaks, brains in a dish may yield clear clues to autism Iron Deficiency in Infancy Can Lead to Risky Behaviors in Adolescence Why I Stayed on My Anti-Anxiety Meds During My Pregnancy Researchers Create Model of Anorexia Nervosa Using Stem Cells "Match Day" at UCSD Risk for Anorexia Could Be Genetic: Study Mother's Milk Bank Drive a Huge Success
February 2017	UC San Diego Researcher to Study Most Effective Treatment for Kawasaki Disease Snapshots of Life: Picturing the Developing Windpipe Potential New Drug Class Hits Multiple Cancer Cell Targets, Boosting Efficacy and Safety
January 2017	Patients with type 1 diabetes may need to check ketones more often Unraveling a Human Mystery - a $10.5 Million Dollar Donation Teaching Computers to Recognize Sick Guts—Machine Learning and The Microbiome Unraveling the Complexity of Mother’s Milk San Diego-Based Illumina Says The $100 Genome Is Only A Few Years Away Mini-brains made from teeth help reveal what makes us sociable Check out the December 2016/January 2017 Peds E-Newsletter here!
December 2016	8 Things We Learned About Human Nature in 2016 Blood Test May Help Identify Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Advances in pediatric inflammatory skin disease PSA to Surfers: Protect Yourself from Superbugs
November 2016	What molecules you leave on your phone reveal about your lifestyle Our perpetually vigilant internal guardian Andeans with Altitude Sickness Produce Massive Amounts of Red Blood Cells
October 2016	Let Researchers Try New Paths UC San Diego School of Medicine Researchers Receive $5 Million in Type 1 Diabetes Grants Zika Virus Infection Alters Human and Viral RNA A Human (And Humane) Quest To Find Therapies For Autism Disorders Dog Fecal Matter Microbiome Predicts Canine Inflammatory Bowel Disease MicroRNA Specifically Kills Cancer Cells with Common Mutation
September 2016	Biocom Life Science Catalyst Winners Named
April 2015	Dr. Rob Knight Receives the Prestigious Massry Prize