A parents' guide to keeping kids safe online in the summer holidays
Parenting over the summer holidays, especially when juggling work and childcare, comes with significant challenges. One of those is screen time and staying safe online.
https://medicalxpress.com/news..../2025-08-parents-kid
Immunologic surveillance study provides new insights into post-pandemic return of respiratory viruses
The first paper from a multi-year clinical research study has been published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The article "Dynamics of endemic virus re-emergence in children in the USA following the COVID-19 pandemic (2022–2023): a prospective, multicentre, longitudinal, immunoepidemiological surveillance study," demonstrates how the approach can improve modeling to better predict future outbreaks.
https://medicalxpress.com/news..../2025-08-immunologic
Getting young and old people to dance together boosts health and reduces age discrimination
As the global population ages, the number of people aged 65 and older is projected to rise significantly over the next 25 years. But while we're living longer, we're also becoming more socially divided by age. Age segregation is on the rise and fewer people are regularly interacting with those outside their own generation.
https://medicalxpress.com/news..../2025-08-young-peopl
Co-designed school-based recommendations to support First Nations youth living with type 2 diabetes
A new study by the Menzies-led DIABETES Across the LIFECOURSE: Northern Australia Partnership (the Partnership) has identified seven co-designed recommendations for schools to better support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people living with type 2 diabetes.
https://medicalxpress.com/news..../2025-08-school-base
Brain wiring in early childhood could hold key to flagging future ADHD risk
A new study by researchers at Simon Fraser University is shedding light on how the brain's wiring in early childhood lays the foundation for attention skills—a key step toward characterizing healthy developmental patterns that could help identify young children at risk for attention-related challenges like ADHD.
https://medicalxpress.com/news..../2025-08-brain-wirin
