Will High-Dose Ifosfamide Become the Go-To Therapy in Recurrent Ewing Sarcoma?
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- High-dose ifosfamide proved more effective at prolonging event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) than topotecan plus cyclophosphamide in relapsed/refractory Ewing sarcoma, according to the rEECur trial... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 5, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Is Race a Factor For Which Children Get Imaging in the ER?
(MedPage Today) -- Racial diversity of patients served by children's hospitals could be related to disparities in diagnostic imaging for kids presenting to emergency departments, researchers found.
Across several dozen U.S. hospitals, Black children... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 4, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
What Happens When Kids Experience a Traumatic Event?
(MedPage Today) -- Three days after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, social worker and child therapist Bonnie Rumilly arrived in Newtown, Connecticut to help with crisis counseling.
It quickly became obvious that this would become... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 1, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Presepsin a 'Robust' Biomarker of Early-Onset Sepsis
(MedPage Today) -- Presepsin holds promise as a biomarker for early-onset sepsis (EOS), a systematic review and meta-analysis confirmed.
Across a dozen clinical trials, presepsin had a pooled sensitivity of 0.93 for the primary analysis of culture... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 1, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Over 1 Million Kids and Young Adults Vaped Every Day in 2019
(MedPage Today) -- Each day between 2017 and 2019, nearly 2,300 adolescents and young adults became new daily tobacco users -- a figure that mirrors statistics from 1989 to 1993.
According to a longitudinal study, the total number of daily vape... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - May 30, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Biden Administration Announces More Steps to Address Formula Shortage
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration continues to try to shore up the baby formula supply, this time by invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) to increase the availability of formula ingredients.
"The Secretary of Health... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - May 19, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
USPSTF Guidance Misses the Mark on Youth Suicide Risk Screening
(MedPage Today) -- With increasing rates of suicide and mental health issues among U.S. youth, and with suicide as the second leading cause of death among people ages 10 to 34, the state of youth mental health has reached crisis proportions. For... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - May 16, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Formula Shortage: What Providers Are Telling Worried Parents
(MedPage Today) -- After a bacterial contamination at a Michigan plant that produces formula for Abbott Nutrition, the leading formula manufacturer in the U.S., killed two infants and sickened two more, nationwide voluntary recalls have left shelves... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - May 13, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
More Intense Pain Tied to Failed Appendicitis Treatment in Kids
(MedPage Today) -- Kids reporting higher levels of appendicitis pain at presentation were more likely to struggle with a non-operative approach during hospitalization, a secondary analysis of a prospective study found.
Among 370 pediatric patients... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - May 2, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Clinical Clues, Possible Culprit Identified in Kids' Mystery Hepatitis Cases
(MedPage Today) -- Adenovirus was detected in the blood specimens of all nine children with acute hepatitis infection identified in Alabama from October 2021 to February 2022, researchers found.
The nine children were 0 to 6 years old and previously... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - April 29, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
In the NICU, High-Flow Oxygen Boosts Intubation Success on First Attempt
(MedPage Today) -- Incorporating nasal high-flow therapy during endotracheal intubation attempts in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) increased the chance of success on the first try, a randomized study found.
In the SHINE trial of just... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - April 28, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
'Great' News on Wrong Diagnoses in Pediatric ICUs
(MedPage Today) -- An estimated 1.5% of diagnoses at four Iowa pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) were wrong, a new study found, and that's good news because it could have been quite a bit worse.
In the restrospective study of nearly 900 randomly... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - April 21, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Guns Have Become the Top Killer of U.S. Kids
(MedPage Today) -- Gun-related deaths increased significantly among children and adolescents in 2020, becoming the leading cause of mortality among youth, researchers said.
The crude rate of firearm-related deaths among individuals ages 1 to 19... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - April 20, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
The Kids Are Not Alright
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Family finances affect children's minds and bodies. As a pediatrician and a medical student, we witness every day how poverty makes kids sicker. The 2021 American Rescue Plan put... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - April 17, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Everybody Loves CHIP, So Why Isn't It Permanently Funded?
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- When Rep. Kim Schrier, MD (D-Wash.), a pediatrician, was asked at the Families USA virtual conference in January about the important healthcare provisions in the Build Back Better Act, there was one item she made... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - April 15, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
