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A first-of-its-kind surgery has gone through a young woman’s eye socket to remove a cancerous tumor wrapped around her spine. Surgeons threaded a thin lighted tube called an endoscope down through the 19-year-old woman’s eye socket to remove a rare, slow-growing bone tumor known as a chordoma, doctors said after the successful procedure. “The tumor…  read on >  read on >

Children have an increased risk of high blood pressure if their moms suffered from health problems during pregnancy, a new study says. Children had higher blood pressure if their moms had obesity, gestational diabetes or high blood pressure while pregnant, researchers reported May 8 in JAMA Network Open. The presence of just one of these…  read on >  read on >

Children and young adults formerly covered by Medicaid are losing access to medications needed to control conditions like depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, asthma and epilepsy, a new study says. Young people need to take these meds regularly to get the best results, as interruptions can cause flare-ups of their chronic health problems, researchers said. Interruptions in…  read on >  read on >

Any parent who has been jolted awake by the squeals of a toddler with an ear infection knows that relief won’t be swift — or sure. Kids often build resistance to the usual days-long antibiotic treatment regimen so the painful infections can come roaring back. But Cornell University researchers report encouraging results from animal tests…  read on >  read on >