Most Moms Knew About Safe Sleep for Infants, But Still Engaged in Unsafe Practices
(MedPage Today) -- Despite knowledge of and intention to follow safe sleep guidelines for infants, mothers often engaged in non-recommended sleep practices, a series of small focus groups and surveys showed. Among 25 mothers, 80% reported holding... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - March 26, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news

How the U.S. Is Addressing the Youth Mental Health Crisis
(MedPage Today) -- In part two of this exclusive video interview, MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, talks with Admiral Rachel Levine, MD, the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), about... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - March 21, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news

Child Deaths Rise in U.S.; Water Beads Warning; Cancer Studies Retracted
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. U.S. life expectancy improved in 2022 as COVID-19 and other leading causes of death dropped but deaths among children rose, as did deaths due to drug overdoses... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - March 21, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news

Weight-Based High-Flow Oxygen for Bronchiolitis May Reduce ICU Admissions
(MedPage Today) -- Transitioning from an intensive care unit (ICU)-only high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) protocol to a weight-based non-ICU HFNC protocol was associated with reduced ICU admission rates for hospitalized children with bronchiolitis... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - March 20, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news

Are Your Patients' Allergies Worsening? Climate Change May Be at Play
(MedPage Today) -- 'Tis the season of warmer temperatures, blue skies, and the slow shedding of layers. While I, like many others, welcome this warmer weather, I am also weary of how unseasonably warm the winter has been. This past January was... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - March 17, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news

Trump's Anti-Vax Rhetoric; Amputations After NFL Game; 'Overdose' or 'Poisoning'?
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. "I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate." -- Former President Donald Trump's anti-vaccine comments are alarming public... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - March 11, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news

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