Dr. Badi Alatasi

12/05/2026

Mild metabolic changes detected years before pregnancy are associated with increased risk of pregnancy hypertension and pre-eclampsia, highlighting the potential of routine blood tests for earlier identification, prevention, and care planning.

12/05/2026

Analysis of biobank data found common lab markers tied to PTSD across cardiometabolic, immune, and hepatic health, indicating the condition may cause systemwide changes, and could be monitored through routine testing.

30/04/2026

Morning coffee makes you live longer

Discover how a key biological pathway that could explain how coffee helps protect against aging and chronic disease.

27/04/2026

FRIDAY, April 24, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The imaginative power of children is profound, captured in a single oft-used phrase: “Let’s pretend.”Pretend play is s

25/04/2026

Influenza vaccination continues to protect children from influenza-related outpatient visits and hospitalizations, according to post-pandemic data published in Pediatrics. “We have had really severe recent seasons for flu, particularly in children,” Samantha M. Olson, MPH, an epidemiologist in t...

25/04/2026

New hope for congenital hearing loss

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first gene therapy for inherited hearing loss, a one-time treatment that proved to be life-changing for a small number of children in a clinical trial who were born without hearing.

25/04/2026

Mother antibiotic use during breastfeeding

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22/04/2026

Children of mothers exposed to very high vs. background concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances prenatally had elevated asthma incidence, according to results published in PLoS Medicine.“It’s important to keep in mind that we only saw an association at very high levels of p...

21/04/2026

Children who walk fewer steps per day and report longer amounts of screen time at age 11 to 12 years are more likely to develop overweight or obesity at age 13 to 14 years, according to findings published in Obesity. “Clinically, our findings support a twofold approach to adolescent obesity preven...

20/04/2026

Speech Auditory Brainstem Response to Predict Language Delay

OBJECTIVE. Although preterm birth is among the best predictors of language delay, it is not precise enough to make child-level prediction that will enable the prescription of the highly effective early intervention (EI). This study aims to develop and validate predictive models of language delay usi...