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Free dental care for children in Cornwall
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/free-dental-care-for-children-in-cornwall
University of Plymouth news: Parents across Cornwall are asked to take advantage of NHS dental treatment for their children at paediatric clinics run by the University of Plymouth Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at its Dental Education Facility in Truro
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Invisibly Blighted: The digital erosion of childhood
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/pr-opinion/invisibly-blighted-the-digital-erosion-of-childhood
Andy Phippen, Professor of Social Responsibility in IT at the University of Plymouth, says we all have a role to play in young people’s responsible use of technology
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Funding to support investigation in to new treatments for malnourished children
Plymouth University news: An international research fund led by the Medical Research Council has awarded funding to a group including researchers from Plymouth University, to find new treatments for severely malnourished children
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Myopia control clinic
The University of Plymouth's Centre for Eyecare Excellence (CEE) myopia control clinic. A specialist clinic that offers evidence-based optical treatments to slow down myopia in children and young adults.
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Researcher secures funding to further investigate treatment for neuro-tumours
Dr Sylwia Ammoun has secured £112,071 from Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity and Sparks to research into hereditary condition Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2). Her work could offer hope to the thousands of, mainly young, people affected by NF2.
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Study links obesity in the young to lowering of the age of puberty
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/study-links-obesity-in-the-young-to-lowering-of-the-age-of-puberty
University of Plymouth news: A new link has been identified between obesity in childhood and the lowering age of puberty.
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Survey of toddlers' teeth shows ticking time bomb
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/pr-opinion/opinion-survey-of-toddlers-teeth-shows-ticking-time-bomb
Plymouth University news: After the publication by Public Health England of the first ever survey of oral health in three-year olds, Dr Gail Rees and Dr Robert Witton examine the consequences
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Funding for toddlers’ oral health pilot study
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/funding-for-toddlers-oral-health-pilot-study
Plymouth University news: The Medical Research Council has provided funding for a pilot study which aims to address the ongoing problems in children's oral health, especially in communities of social deprivation
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Unique EarlyBird study set for historic third phase
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/unique-earlybird-study-set-for-historic-third-phase
Plymouth University news: EarlyBird has uniquely followed a group of 300 children from the age of four or five to early adulthood, and its findings could hold the key to understanding how the way we live in childhood may affect our health as adults
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Enabling Sailing
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/enabling-sailing
Plymouth University news: Student Forrest Worthington uses his final year project to modify a sailing dinghy to make it available to disabled children
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