Pediatrics
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Many premature infants receive reflux medication after NICU discharge
Three-quarters of premature infants who receive gastroesophageal reflux medication are started after being discharged from NICUs, despite...
Article
Most children’s hypertension goes undiagnosed and untreated
Pediatric hypertension is underdiagnosed, and medication guidelines are inconsistently followed.
Article
Flushing Lesion on 4-Month-Old Boy
When he was one month old, this baby developed a lesion on his back. Since then, his parents report, on two separate occasions he's had a whole-...
Conference Coverage
Body-size awareness linked with BMI decrease in obese children, teens
Body-size awareness was associated with a decrease in BMI among obese children and teens.
Conference Coverage
Obesity risk rises when kids aren’t active 1 hour a day
SAN FRANCISCO – The behavioral characteristic that correlated the most with obesity in school-age children was being active less than 1 hour per...
Article
Two migraine prevention drugs prove no better than placebo in children
Amitriptyline and topiramate, commonly used to prevent migraine in adults, were associated with significantly more adverse events than was placebo...
Conference Coverage
ACIP approves changes to HPV, Tdap, DTaP, MenB vaccination guidance
Changes to language dominated the updates at the latest committee vote.
Conference Coverage
Cow’s milk allergy appears to affect more U.S. infants than thought
Cow’s milk protein allergy may occur more often among U.S. infants than the pediatric literature suggests.
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Hypertension in children linked to lower neurocognitive performance
Children with primary hypertension demonstrated significantly lower performance on neurocognitive testing, compared with children without primary...
CE/CME
October 2016: Click for Credit
Topics include: Autism follow-up screening • Gallstone disease and heart risk • HER2-testing guidelines • Weight loss and TNFi efficacy...