Pediatrics

• Prevention key to help protect patients from zoonotic diseases

• July 29, 2011
• During warmer weather, when exposure to both wild and domesticated animals potentially increases, sharing the latest information on animal-borne diseases...More »

• Alternate benchmarking measures evaluated for UTI

• July 20, 2011
• Looking at the ICD-9 codes may be another way to help test accuracy benchmarks for patients who have urinary tract infections, according to data published...More »

• DMSA renal scan no replacement for VCUG in young children with first UTI

• July 20, 2011
• Acute-phase dimercaptosuccinic acid renal scanning should not replace voiding cystourethrography when evaluating infants and young children for a febrile...More »

• Case Challenges: Dermatology

• A Premature Girl with Pallor and Rash

• Pediatric Annals, June 2011, Volume 40 Issue 6
• A 32-week girl was born by preterm delivery with birth weight of 1,600 g to a gravida 1 para 0 (G1P0) 26-year-old Hispanic mother. The mother’s past...More »

• Health officials report spike in imported measles cases

• May 27, 2011
• Importations of measles into the Western Hemisphere continue, and the United States have seen an “unusually large number of importations” during...More »

• Researchers link school closings to decrease in H1N1 transmission in Mexico

• May 27, 2011
• School closings and other social distancing measures were linked to a nearly 30% reduction in influenza A/H1N1 transmission in Mexico during 2009,...More »

• Antibiotics once thought harmful to children in utero now deemed safe by obstetricians, gynecologists

• May 26, 2011
• The National Birth Defects Prevention Study released in 2009 reported that sulfonamides and nitrofurantoins were associated with several birth defects...More »

• FDA officials warn against food thickener for preemies

• May 26, 2011
• FDA officials are discouraging parents of premature infants from feeding them a food-thickening agent, after receiving 15 reports of necrotizing...More »

• Challenges remain for evaluating OME diagnosis and treatment

• May 25, 2011
• Compliance rates for diagnosis and treatment of otitis media with effusion varied among practices, according to recent study results.
  However, the...More »

• African dwarf frogs linked to Salmonella infections in children

• May 23, 2011
• A type of frog commonly kept in household aquariums has been linked to more than 200 Salmonella typhimurium infections during the past year, many of which...More »

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