Pediatrics
Conference Coverage
Oral HPV infections sharply lower for vaccinated youth
HPV vaccination appears to confer a high level of protection against oral infection with oncogenic virus types.
Opinion
Adolescents and sleep, or the lack thereof
Do your adolescent patients know how sleep deprived they are?
News
Declines in frequent binge drinking vary in some teen subgroups
Reductions in frequent binge drinking vary in some subgroups of U.S. teens.
Conference Coverage
Marijuana-related visits to Colorado ED steadily increasing
ED and urgent care visits related to cannabis among teens in Colorado doubled from 2009 to 2015.
Conference Coverage
HPV vaccine training video improved provider knowledge, confidence
SAN FRANCISCO – How can watching a video improve pediatric providers' ability to counsel patients about the HPV vaccine?
Conference Coverage
Intravenous tPA ups mortality in children with acute ischemic stroke
BOSTON – The results show that studies of the efficacy of ischemic stroke treatment in adults can’t necessarily be extrapolated to children.
Conference Coverage
Asthma step-up therapy in children improves outcomes
Strategies that step up pharmacotherapy, as opposed to working on medication adherence alone, may be beneficial for some patients.
News
Infants’ responses to multiple vaccines affected by maternal antibodies
Maternal antibodies may blunt infant response to immunizations.
Conference Coverage
Children’s asthma risk reduced with prenatal vitamin D supplementation
Maternal vitamin D supplementation may reduce children’s risk of asthma or allergies.
Conference Coverage
Time to therapy for gram-positive bacteremia reduced from 60 hours to 4 hours
The time to establish effective antibiotic therapy was reduced from 60 hours prior to the use of multiplex PCR to 4 hours for MRSA.