E-cigarette use may increase the risk of other types of tobacco use
It appears that if high school students smoke e-cigarettes, they are more likely to start smoking regular cigarettes, study results show.
The students were asked whether they had ever tried... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 11, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Pediatric telehealth programs are growing, diversifying
MINNEAPOLIS – More pediatric subspecialists are using telehealth as a tool to treat patients, a new study shows.
From 2011 to 2015, the number of inpatient specialties using pediatric telehealth... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Prepare early for peer review hearings to avoid negative outcomes
CHICAGO – Being targeted for a peer review can be unnerving for physicians, but proper preparation can help doctors smoothly navigate the process and increase their chances for a favorable... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Children receiving Japanese encephalitis vaccine tolerated it well
Children given the inactivated Vero cell–derived vaccine (IXIARO) to prevent diseases caused by Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) tolerated it well, Dr. Shauna Butler and her associates at the San... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
High school students’ health risk behaviors mixed, CDC says
Data from the latest National Youth Risk Behavior Survey show that although many harmful behaviors are declining among high school students across the United States, work still needs to be done to... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 9, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Distress or depression in a 12-year-old girl?
A 12-year-old girl presents for a well-child visit but is withdrawn, and her mother reports recent behavioral changes. Symptoms suggest a possible depressive disorder. The physician did not... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 9, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Enlist appropriate psychological consults for gender dysphoria
ORLANDO – Old notions about transgender and transsexual individuals are changing, driven by the emergence of transgender identity, scientific evidence, political activism in those communities, and... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 9, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Adolescent obesity rose slightly, again
Nearly one in five young people in the United States are obese, and proportionally more adolescents have been obese during every time period measured since 1994, according to an analysis published... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 7, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
USPSTF updates recommendations for syphilis screening
Because syphilis infection rates have increased over the last decade, health care providers should screen patients for the disease more frequently to detect and treat it earlier and more effectively,... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 7, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Infants fed with large bottles gain more weight
Infants from low-income families fed with large-size bottles were significantly heavier at age 6 months than infants fed using smaller bottles, according to Dr. Charles Wood of the University of... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 7, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Weather or not
There was an outdoor equipment designer for a well-known Maine-based outfitter who was fond of saying that there was no such thing as bad weather, just bad or inappropriate clothing. The origin of... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 4, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Hungry and obese
Does it seem strange to you that while on one hand we hear from multiple sources that a troubling number of adults and children are going hungry, but on the other hand data from the <a... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 2, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Behavioral interventions better than sleep education for infants
Graduated extinction and bedtime fading significantly reduced nocturnal wakefulness in infants and maternal stress, according to Michael Gradisar, Ph.D., of Flinders University, Adelaide, South... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 2, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Rooming in cuts costs and improves care for neonatal abstinence syndrome
A neonatal abstinence syndrome program that focused on rooming in significantly decreased hospital costs, drug use, and length of hospital stay, based on data from a program in a single hospital in a... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 2, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Two-step UTI screening cuts catheterization rate in half
After implementation of a quality improvement initiative to more effectively screen febrile children for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in the emergency department, catheterization rates dropped... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - June 2, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
