Low-Dose Atropine Eye Drops Flop for Slowing Kids' Myopia
(MedPage Today) -- Treating U.S. children with an investigational low-dose (0.01%) formulation of atropine eye drops didn't delay worsening of nearsightedness, a randomized clinical trial found.
Over 24 months, kids using the once-nightly drops... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - July 13, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Retirement Projections Suggest Looming Pediatric Eye Doc Shortage
(MedPage Today) -- Nearly half of all U.S. states may be at risk of low access to pediatric ophthalmologists in the next 5 years due to retirement, a forecasting model suggested.
In a model where pediatric ophthalmologists started at age 35 and... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - July 10, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Two Noninvasive Ventilation Modes Win for Riskiest NICU Newborns
(MedPage Today) -- The known advantages of certain noninvasive respiratory support techniques prevailed for extremely preterm newborns following extubation and for those with more severe respiratory failure, subgroup analyses of the NASONE trial... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - July 7, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Young Cancer Survivors at Increased Lifetime Risk of Mental Health Disorders
(MedPage Today) -- Children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer (CAYAs) remained at increased risk for mental health disorders after the remission of their cancer, according to results from a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Compared... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 29, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Shorter Antibiotic Course Not as Effective for Children With UTIs
(MedPage Today) -- Abbreviated antibiotic treatment didn't measure up for children with urinary tract infection (UTI), the SCOUT trial found.
Stopping antibiotics when symptoms improved after an initial 5-day course yielded a 4.1% rate of persistent... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 26, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Serious Complications Uncommon After Primary Lens Implantation in Children
(MedPage Today) -- A third of intraocular lens (IOL) implants for nontraumatic glaucoma in children required reoperation for visual axis opacification (VAO) within 5 years, most often in eyes that did not have anterior vitrectomy, a large cohort... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 23, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
U.S. News Releases 'Best Children's Hospitals' Amid Ongoing Criticism
(MedPage Today) -- As U.S. News & World Report rolled out its annual list of "Best Children's Hospitals," the outlet also received new pushback on its rankings.
On Tuesday, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced that he had sent... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 22, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
None of Your Patients Are Safe From Wildfires
(MedPage Today) -- By now, we have all walked through the smoke or seen the pictures. Plumes from over 400 Canadian wildfires engulfed the East Coast last week, shrouding the New York City skyline in thick, orange smoke that made the Statue of... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 13, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
The State of Teen Mental Health
(MedPage Today) -- In this video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, sits down with Jessi Gold, MD, MS, an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Amanda... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 13, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Antibody for Infant RSV Prevention to Face FDA Panel
(MedPage Today) -- An FDA advisory committee on Thursday will consider whether to recommend a shot of a monoclonal antibody against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to prevent lower respiratory tract disease in both infants and in at-risk children... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 7, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Breathing Support Type Matters for Preventing Extubation Failure in the PICU
(MedPage Today) -- Postextubation use of certain modes of noninvasive respiratory support was associated with fewer incidents of extubation failure in critically ill children, a meta-analysis found.
Compared with conventional oxygen therapy, both... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 6, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Where Do LGBTQ+ Youth Have Access to Mental Health Services?
(MedPage Today) -- Of all mental health facilities that serve youth in the U.S., only 28% offered LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer)-specific mental health services in 2020, a small increase from 25% in 2014, according to data... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 5, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
CDC: Children's Brain Infections Rose Last Winter, But Remained Rare
(MedPage Today) -- Pediatric intracranial infections spiked recently and were associated with significant morbidity but remained rare, according to CDC researchers monitoring cases across the country.
Hospitalization data through March 2023 from... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 2, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
What Happens When We Classify Kids' Weight as a 'Disease'?
(MedPage Today) -- On January 9 of this year, the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) published their "Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Obesity." With this guidance, the AAP is advising... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - May 27, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Cardiorespiratory Monitoring Can Be Telling of Outcomes in Extremely Preterm Infants
(MedPage Today) -- Physiologic data from cardiorespiratory monitoring may provide prognostic information about the clinical outcomes of extremely preterm infants, the Prematurity-Related Ventilatory Control (Pre-Vent) study found.
The endpoint... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - May 26, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
