Pediatricians Can Effectively Promote Gun Safety
When pediatricians and other pediatric providers are given training and resource materials, levels of firearm screenings and anticipatory guidance about
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FDA Approves First Therapy for Rare Pediatric Immune Disorder
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the regenerative tissue-based therapy Rethymic for patients with congenital athymia, a rare
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Study shines light on child deaths from birth defects
Child deaths from surgical conditions such as birth defects are too high in sub-Saharan Africa compared with high-income countries because
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Bronchitis the Leader at Putting Children in the Hospital
More children admitted to hospitals in 2018 had acute bronchitis than any other diagnosis, according to a recent report from
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SLIT Is Safer for Food Allergy. Why Dont More Doctors Offer It?
This is part 1 of a three-part series. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. For the 32 million
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Focus on Youth Concerns at Well Visits
Taking teens’ strengths, values, and dreams, into account through a previsit questionnaire was acceptable to them and may promote discussions
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Researchers improve method to inhibit viruses that cause childhood respiratory infections
By engineering a short chunk of protein, or peptide, that can prevent the attachment of human parainfluenza viruses to cells,
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US Military Pressed to Act on Wave of Child Injuries in Housing
(Reuters) – Last April, Kate Needham’s one-year-old son Robbie pushed through a screen and plunged from a second story window
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New drug molecules hold promise for treating fatal child disease
Scientists have identified a way to “rescue” muscle cells that have genetically mutated, paving the way to a possible new
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Tablet-Based Sex Trafficking Screening Works for Minors in the ED
(Reuters Health) – Using an electronic tablet to deliver a six-item screening tool to minors in a pediatric emergency department
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