Inequities in childhood cancer research: A scoping review.

An integral part of understanding and then designing programs to reduce childhood cancer inequities includes adequate representation of people with cancer in research, including children. A scoping review was carried out to understand how cancer research is oriented toward inequities and to identify who has participated in childhood qualitative cancer research. A systematic search identified 119 qualitative studies that met inclusion criteria, with most studies taking place in high-income countries (n=84).

A Heart for the Care: Affect, Kin, and Care Work in a Zambian Hospital.

At the only standalone pediatric hospital in Zambia, patient wellbeing often rests in the hands of bedsiders. Bedsiders are caregivers, often family, who sit at the patient's bedside, feeding, cleaning them, and running medical errands. Bedsiders are critical human infrastructure for the hospital and its staff.

Childhood growth and education migration among ethnic Tibetan children from Nepal.

Background: Ethnographic work among high altitude populations has shown that children are highly mobile-the most recent expression of this is the educational migration of children born at high altitude to boarding schools at lower altitudes. The impact of these patterns of migration on size for age are unknown.

Aim: We investigated the association between growth in weight and height and educational migration in ethnic Tibetan children living in and out of their natal communities.

Maternal birth weight is associated with milk epidermal growth factor in Filipino women.

Objectives: Lactational programming, through which milk-borne bioactives influence both neonatal and long-term biological development, is well established. However, almost no research has investigated how developmental stimuli during a mother's early life may influence her milk bioactives in adulthood. Here, we investigated the association between maternal birth weight and milk epidermal growth factor (EGF) and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) in later life.