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Potential New Cancer Gene Identified

...kitt's lymphoma is one of the three major types of pediatric non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, representing 40% of that group. According to the American Cancer Society, aproximately 57,000 children are diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma per year in the United States, representing about 6% of cancers in children. Whi...

Medicis Pharmaceutical company enters pediatric market

...o announce our carefully planned entrance into the pediatric market with a transaction we expect to be accretiv...and innovative organization, which can provide the pediatric community with creative and valuable products. " Ascent's portfolio of specialty pharmaceutical pe...

Dangers of Low Calcium Intake

...the midst of a calcium crisis. Osteoporosis is a pediatric disease with geriatric consequences. With low calcium intake levels during these important bone growth periods, today's children and teens are certain to face a serious public health problem in the future. Children are drinking more soft drinks and...

Medications linked to xerostomia and caries

...t would be consistent with the patterns he sees in pediatric asthma patients,” Dr. Salinas notes. “Use of albuterol to control acute asthma tends to decrease as kids get older and as many as 75 percent of children who had asthma when they were younger than age 5 will outgrow it.” ...

FDA changes rules on testing drugs for children

...t up a grant program to allow taxpayer dollars for pediatric studies of drugs their makers, despite the incentives, won't do. During a two-year suspension of the older mandate, the FDA will assess if the new law takes care of the problem....

Drug for pediatric brain cancer

... further study of fotemustine for the treatment of pediatric brain tumors and suggest the need for more studies involving the drug alone or possibly in combination with other agents....

Drug for pediatric brain cancer

... further study of fotemustine for the treatment of pediatric brain tumors and suggest the need for more studies involving the drug alone or possibly in combination with other agents....

Acupuncture in Paediatric care

...ef of pain. However, it has not reached mainstream pediatric treatment yet. Very few acupuncturists treat children and not many pediatricians are familiar with acupuncture. Acupuncture could be effectively used for children who suffer from chronic, recurrent, or severe pain such as migraine, chronic abdomi...

Lamictal as add-on therapy for children with epilepsy

...ated the efficacy of the drug as add-on therapy in pediatric patients who were still having frequent partial seizures (at least four per month) despite optimal doses of other anti-epilepsy drugs (AEDs). The study was a 18 week placebo controlled study in which 200 patients aged between 2 and 15 years, who were...

Adult COPD or asthma could be effectively treated with Xopenex

...zer at dosage strengths of 0.31 mg and 0.63 mg for pediatric patients and as 0.63 mg and 1.25 mg for patients 12 years of age and older. Xopenex brand levalbuterol HCl inhalation solution is indicated for the treatment or prevention of bronchospasm in patients 6 years and older with reversible obstructive airw...

Babies Brains Are more Fragile

...es. While accidental falls are a frequent cause of pediatric trauma, they are also a common explanation given by caretakers in suspected abuse cases," Margulies says. Her research may eventually help child abuse investigators distinguish between accidental falls and injuries suffered by children whose heads a...

Reducing Medication Errors

...place of hand-writing the orders. They studied the pediatric population because the potential for adverse drug events is three-times more likely in children than adults. The computerized process was used on two medical wards and compared with hand-written orders on one medical and two surgical wards. In the s...

Nitrous Oxide for Kids

...of the more painful emergencies that we treat, say pediatric emergency specialists. According to specialists there’s a myth that children don’t experience as much pain as adults. Adults are much more likely, somewhere around two to one, to get pain medications for fracture pain. When medication is given to kid...

Link Between Migraines and Behavioral Disorders

... of the study show there is a relationship between pediatric migraines and ODD. Researchers say children with migraines were more likely to have ODD than children who did not experience migraines. Children with ODD typically have trouble accepting rules, are often argumentative, and have difficulty relating ...

Finding relief from Excruciating Headaches a challenge

...headaches isn't always easy. The director of the pediatric headache clinic at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children in Baltimore says that at least half the young patients who come to see him suffer from chronic daily headaches. Often, it is a matter of trying various migraine medications. Among...

Support Services found to Dramatically Impact Pediatric Health Care

...g health care dramatically improves the quality of pediatric health care and parenting practices.// Researche...ilies and physicians. It places specialists in the pediatric practice to provide enhanced services such as home visits, telephone help lines, educational materia...

Common Medication Errors in Children

...chers have found , medication errors that occur in pediatric intensive care units are more common // than prev...d more than 11,800 children who were admitted into pediatric intensive care units to determine the prevalence of medication errors. They defined an error as any ...

Migraine Found To Be Linked To Behavioral Disorders

... of the study show there is a relationship between pediatric migraines and ODD. Researchers say children with migraines were more likely to have ODD than children who did not experience migraines. Children with ODD typically have trouble accepting rules, are often argumentative, and have difficulty relating t...

Preventing cavities in children

...he prevalence of obesity. They urge pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners and dieticians to discuss these guidelines with parents....

Effective Treatment Option For Dehydrated Kids

...ration. However, a recent survey reveals that most pediatric emergency medicine physicians do not use this therapy instead they use intravenous methods, which are performed by injecting the fluid directly into a vein. In a study conducted to evaluate the two methods patients received either oral rehydration t...

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