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International study supports dupilumab for treatment of moderate-to-severe asthma in children

A new medication has been added to the treatment options for children with moderate-to-severe asthma. In a late-stage clinical trial, the biologic agent dupilumab reduced the rate of severe asthma attacks and improved lung function and asthma control for children ages 6 to 11. The findings of the international multicenter Liberty Asthma VOYAGE trial, reported Dec. 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine, supported approval of dupilumab for the treatment of moderate-to-severe asthma in this age group by the Food and Drug Administration in October. "This is a really important advance for children with moderate-to-severe asthma and their families," said Leonard Bacharier, MD, an asthma specialist at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and the international lead investigator for the trial. "As asthma gets increasingly severe, the burden becomes substantial, impacting the…

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ANNABEL FENWICK ELLIOTT: Is anyone actually enjoying half term? Or am I alone in counting down the days until it's over? I'll be honest: Having kids is boring

By ANNABEL FENWICK ELLIOTT, COLUMNIST Is anyone actually enjoying half term? Or am I alone in counting down the days until it’s over? This is a dichotomy I’ve been wrangling with for years: loving my children so much I’d willingly walk a barbed-wire tightrope barefoot over a pit of crocodiles to save them from harm, and at the same time dreading extended periods of one-on-one time with them. Weekends used to be something to look forward to before I became a mother. Now, with a ten-month-old girl and a four-year-old boy who’s usually at nursery, I fear those two days. They no longer fly by in a flash but seem punishingly long. Half term is even worse. And don’t get me started on the summer holidays. There are certain things I truly enjoy doing with my son Jasper: baking cakes, putting together puzzles, reading books, watching movies and, best of all, hugging him and covering him in…

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Ofcom wants body stigma, depression content added to UK Online Safety Act

Ofcom has published its first report on content harmful to children online under the Online Safety Act (OSA), which the UK regulator says includes its advice on “whether it is appropriate to make changes to the kinds of content harmful to children set out in the Act,” and specifies recommended changes. The headlining recommendation in the report is the addition of body stigma content and depression content to the list of priority content that is harmful to children. As research has shown the potentially negative effects social media can have on kids, these concerns – mental health and body image – have risen to the top of regulators’ warning lists. The recommendation would require government action before body stigma and depression content become statutory priority harms under the Online Safety Act. “This finding is concerning and shows that further progress is needed to protect…

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‘Quasi-father figure’ found guilty of abusing orphaned children more than 50 years ago

A 92-year-old man has been found guilty of eight counts of indecent assault more than 50 years ago against two orphaned children to whom he was a “quasi-father figure”. A jury at Ennis Circuit Court on Wednesday returned unanimous guilty verdicts on the eight counts of indecent assault, which were alleged to have happened on dates between July 1st, 1973 and January 31st, 1975. The sisters were aged between eight and 10 years during that time, with six counts relating to the older sister and two to the younger. Their parents had died by the time they were aged five and four and they eventually came into the care of the accused and his wife in the early 1970s. Prosecution barrister Sarah Jane Comerford told the trial the man was a “quasi-father figure” to the vulnerable girls at the time he “perpetrated these offences” against them. The man previously paid €30,000 to each woman, and…

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