Pediatrics

• CME

• Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergies

• The past 3 decades have seen a significant improvement in the armamentarium available to the pediatric provider to battle environmental allergies. Now with non-sedating oral antihistamines, ocular…...More »
• Keck School of Medicine of USC and Pediatric Annals

• In the Journals

• Bacteremia risk low in febrile sickle cell disease patients

• May 29, 2013
• Febrile children with sickle cell disease are experiencing bacteremia at low rates and have no associated morbidity or mortality when managed as...More »

• Combined support most effective in improving HPV vaccine delivery

• May 28, 2013
• Clinicians and families must work together to effectively promote HPV vaccine series receipt, according to recent study results published in Pediatrics.
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• Combined support most effective in improving HPV vaccine delivery

• Infectious Diseases in Children, June 2013
• Clinicians and families must work together to effectively promote HPV vaccine series receipt, according to recent study results published in Pediatrics.
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• In the Journals

• Secondhand smoke exposure likely to affect kidney function

• May 15, 2013
• Children who were exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke were more likely to have decreased estimated glomerular filtration rates, according to study data...More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• Many suicidal adolescents have access to guns at home

• May 7, 2013
• WASHINGTON — Nearly 20% of youth at risk for suicide presenting to the ED reported guns in or around the house, according to new data presented at...More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• Most high school football players would continue to play despite acknowledged concussion symptoms

• May 6, 2013
• Surveys of high school football players, many of whom were educated about concussion dangers, revealed that they would not report their own concussion...More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• Tdap boosters in adolescents induced good antibody responses

• May 5, 2013
• WASHINGTON — Tetanus-diphtheria booster vaccines induced similar tetanus and diphtheria antibody responses and had similar safety profiles among...More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• NHANES: Teenage pregnancy increased risk for obesity

• May 2, 2013
• According to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, researchers have determined that teenage mothers are more likely to develop...More »

• In the Journals

• Adolescent prolonged fatigue tied to depressive and anxiety disorders

• May 1, 2013
• Prolonged fatigue in adolescents may reflect more severe mood and anxiety disorders, according to recent study results published in American Journal of...More »

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