CDC Addresses Rebound of Mycoplasma Pneumonia in Kids
(MedPage Today) -- In the fall of 2023, emergency department (ED)-related visits for Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children rebounded somewhat from a lull during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the numbers were still not as high as before the pandemic, according... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - February 23, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Does the QoL Impact of Food Allergies Affect Girls, Women More?
(MedPage Today) -- Sex or gender may play a role in how food allergies impact a patient's health-related quality of life (QoL), a systematic review of dozens of studies suggested.
Strong evidence from non-interventional studies indicated that... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - February 8, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Bivalent Vax Protected Kids From Symptomatic COVID
(MedPage Today) -- During the 2022-2023 respiratory season, the bivalent COVID vaccines had an effectiveness of 54% against infection and 49% against symptomatic COVID in children and adolescents ages 5 to 17 years, a new study in JAMA showed... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - February 6, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Another PCSK9 Drug Proves Its Mettle for Kids With Inherited High Cholesterol
(MedPage Today) -- For kids with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) uncontrolled by statins, adding alirocumab (Praluent) reduced low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), a randomized clinical trial showed.
The PCSK9 inhibitor... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - February 5, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Health Affects of Diabetes Remission; High-Deductible Plans for Cancer Patients
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - February 3, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Viral Infection, Neuroinflammation Flagged in SIDS Autopsies
(MedPage Today) -- Molecular analyses of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) autopsy material turned up evidence of neuroinflammation, with a specific virus identified in one case, researchers reported.
Among 64 SIDS cases and 15 controls with... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - January 29, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Novel Gene Therapy Allows Kids With Inherited Deafness to Hear
(MedPage Today) -- A small study published Wednesday documents significantly restored hearing in five of six kids treated in China. On Tuesday, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia announced similar improvements in an 11-year-old boy treated... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - January 25, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Newly Unveiled Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis Can Improve Diagnoses
(MedPage Today) -- PHOENIX -- The novel Phoenix sepsis criteria, created by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force, improved diagnosis of pediatric sepsis and septic shock compared with existing criteria... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - January 23, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Inequitable Treatment Persists Across Pediatric Specialties, Review Shows
(MedPage Today) -- Children in racial and ethnic minority groups received poorer healthcare services compared with white kids, a review of quantitative studies showed.
Inequitable treatment persisted across pediatric specialties, including neonatology... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - January 18, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
More Kids Getting Their Hands on Nonprescription Weight-Loss Products
(MedPage Today) -- Nearly one in 10 adolescents across the globe have used a nonprescription weight-loss product, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Across 90 studies, 8.9% of children and adolescents reported using a nonprescription... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - January 10, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Trial: Cleaner Cookstove Fuel Not Enough to Improve Infant Health
(MedPage Today) -- Swapping out liquid petroleum (LP) for biomass cooking fuel during pregnancy made little difference for infant growth or pneumonia rates, two analyses of a randomized controlled trial in low-resource settings revealed.
The cooking... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - January 4, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Shorter Antibiotic Course Noninferior for UTI Recurrence in Kids
(MedPage Today) -- Five days of oral antibiotic treatment for febrile urinary tract infections (UTIs) in kids was noninferior to the standard 10-day course, the randomized controlled STOP trial showed.
The recurrence rate of all UTIs -- febrile... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - December 26, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Dr. Barbie Will See You Now, but Only If You're a Pediatric Patient
(MedPage Today) -- Barbie can be a doctor, but she rarely specializes or works with adults, and she almost never meets clinical safety standards for clothing or personal protective equipment (PPE), a quantitative study found.
Of 80 Barbie medical... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - December 19, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
For Kids, Sleep Study Needed to Parse out the Kind of Snoring That Means Surgery
(MedPage Today) -- Mild obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was not easily distinguishable from primary snoring in children without polysomnography, analysis of randomized clinical trial data showed.
The only clinical and demographic factors significantly... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - December 15, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Very Early ART Can Result in Sustained HIV Suppression in Neonates
(MedPage Today) -- In neonates with acquired in utero HIV infection, administration of antiretroviral therapy (ART) within 48 hours of life can lead to sustained HIV virological suppression by 2 years, a phase I/II proof-of-concept study indicated... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - December 11, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
