New Guideline: Vaccinations OK With Few Tweaks for Rheum Patients
(MedPage Today) -- Nearly all available vaccines can be given to people with rheumatologic diseases, according to a new, detailed guideline from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), though the timing for their administration and dosing of... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - January 5, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Kids' Unintentional Exposures to Edible Cannabis on the Rise
(MedPage Today) -- Pediatric exposures to edible cannabis products increased more than 10-fold in recent years, according to a retrospective analysis of the National Poison Data System.
From 2017 to 2021, unintentional ingestions of cannabis edibles... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - January 3, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
No, the Baby Formula Shortage Still Isn't Over
In this report, we follow up on what has happened since the worst of the shortages, as well as what experts say should happen to prevent... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - December 28, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Families Push Research Forward in Rare Diseases
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Kathy Stagni... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - December 26, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Skin Patch Helped Young Kids With Peanut Allergies
(MedPage Today) -- LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Epicutaneous immunotherapy administered through a patch applied to the skin (VP250) led to better responses compared with placebo for peanut allergies in toddlers, the phase III randomized EPITOPE study showed... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - November 15, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Sublingual Film Delivers Epinephrine
(MedPage Today) -- LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A sublingual film may be able to deliver epinephrine as effectively as intramuscular injections and provide an alternate pathway for urgent treatment of allergic anaphylaxis, a researcher suggested here... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - November 15, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
COVID Vaccine Mandates in the Spotlight at the AMA's Interim Meeting
(MedPage Today) -- Should states be encouraged to require COVID-19 vaccination for public school and college students once FDA fully approves the vaccines? Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) were divided Sunday on the question.... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - November 14, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Gen Vape: How Clinicians Can Help Their Young Patients Quit
(MedPage Today) -- In this video, Chasity Shelton, PharmD, of the University of Tennessee (UT) Health Science Center in Memphis, discusses the various health risks associated with adolescent vaping, and offers healthcare providers advice on how... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - November 10, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
FDA Panel Backs Novel Combination Inhaler for Asthma in Adults Only
(MedPage Today) -- An FDA advisory panel on Tuesday gave near unanimous backing to a novel two-drug combination inhaler for use in adults with asthma, while rejecting the product for younger children.
By a 16-1 margin, the FDA's Pulmonary-Allergy... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - November 9, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Telehealth Training May Address Shortages for Pediatric Mental Health Services
(MedPage Today) -- COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- An initiative designed to cross-train social work students to provide mental health services remotely to children and adolescents increased confidence and interest in providing those services after... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - November 7, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
COVID Spread Through Floors, Walls; Infant Pillow Warning; Paul Pelosi Discharged
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SARS-CoV-2 aerosols likely spread through the walls and floors at a quarantine hotel in Taiwan. (Emerging Infectious Disease)
Initial results from an ongoing clinical study showed... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - November 4, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Where Will All the Sick Children Go?
(MedPage Today) -- On January 20 of this year, Tufts Medical Center announced it would be closing all inpatient pediatric care as of July 1. The current pediatric areas would be given over to adult services. The plan was to maintain the level 3... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - November 1, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
'Rogue Nurse' Faces Murder Charges; Pediatric Bed Shortage Grows; WHO's Fatal Fungi
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A former nurse at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina has been charged with murdering multiple patients by administering lethal doses of insulin... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - October 26, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Divide on When to Start Anti-Psychotic LAIs; Restraint Toll; Wilderness Tx Failures
(MedPage Today) -- LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Notable studies presented at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) annual meeting included posters on the divide among clinicians on the appropriate time to begin treatment with long-acting... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - October 24, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Gender-Affirming Chest Surgeries Increase by Nearly 5x in Teens
(MedPage Today) -- Numbers of gender-affirming chest surgeries among transgender adolescents jumped 389% from 2016 to 2019, researchers reported.
Drawing on data from the Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample, an estimated 1,130 chest reconstructive... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - October 17, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
