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Dispensing Drug Dosage To Children Through Computers

...computerized provider order entry system (CPOE) on pediatric chemotherapy orders, researchers compared 1,259 ha...s co-investigator Robert Arceci, M.D., director of pediatric oncology for The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, where more than 200 children receive cancer tre...

Childhood Arthritis May Lead To Fracture At Later Part Of Life

...ile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is the most common pediatric rheumatic disease, affecting approximately one in 1,000 US children. It was already known that low bone mass occurs in patients with JIA, because of risk factors such as chronic inflammation, delayed puberty, malnutrition, weakness, inactivity and ...

Innocent Expression of Compassion, Children Draw For HIV kids

...ther-to-child transmission; to enable high quality pediatric treatment for children in distress; and to offer maximum protection and support for the children affected by HIV/Aids. The drawing competition was motivated with a desire to understand the level of awareness in the student about HIV/Aids; to enable...

Children Need Different Dosage In Cardiac Arrest

..., states, "Although there are many in the field of pediatric emergency medicine who advocate the use of the Broselow tape for providers, we demonstrate that it is only after Los Angeles County instituted system-wide changes with education that there was any benefit. Merely handing the length-based measuring ta...

Arthritic Drug Approved For Use In Children With Crohn’s Diseas

...herapy that has been approved for the treatment of pediatric Crohn's disease. The officials said that the drug helps in reducing the signs and symptoms of the disease and helps to maintain remission in children suffering from moderate or severe form of Crohn’s disease, and those who have not responded to regul...

A Mother Passes On A Rare, Terminal Brain Disease To Her Three Children

...uffer. Dr Jayaprakash Gosalakkal, the consultant pediatric neurologist treating the brothers at Leicester Royal Infirmary, said: that they are exploring the possibility of bone marrow transplants and also the possibility of stem cell treatment. But he cautioned that the investigation is still in its very ear...

Socioeconomic Status Plays A Role In Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

...ren. ‘Similar to results found in studies of other pediatric diseases, the results of this study support the theory that Medicaid status is associated with more disability and lower HRQOL, even in the absence of apparent differences in health care resource utilization,’ the authors state. They add that these d...

Adults Needs to be Educated About the Dangers of Elevated TVs

...hor Dr. Robert Todd Maxson, assistant professor of pediatric surgery at UT Southwestern and medical director of the pediatric trauma service at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. Researchers reviewed 26 cases handled by the C...

Lawn Mower injuries - children needs precaution

.... 'Physicians in plastic surgery, microsurgery, pediatric surgery, and orthopaedics are at the forefront in repairing these injuries and see, firsthand, how devastating they can be for children and their families,' said ASPS President Bruce Cunningham, MD. 'It is equally important for us to aid in the preve...

Gene Variations Raise the Risk of Childhood Cancer Survivors

...mine if these results hold up,' said Dr. Aplenc, a pediatric oncologist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 'We hope these findings will provide a scientific foundation for safer, more effective cancer treatments for children.' Dr. Aplenc’s research abstract was featured in a news conference at the A...

Number of Children, Teens Being Treated for Mental Disorders is on Rise

...roved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for pediatric patients. Mark Olfson, M.D., M.P.H., College of ...be safe and effective for some mental disorders in pediatric patients, further research is needed to confirm this and provide detailed information about benefits...

Hunt for Chromosomal Errors Which Cause Genetic Diseases

...mercially available gene chips have been used by a pediatric research team to scrutinize all of a patient’s chr...adelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new g...

Passive Smoking Worsens Allergies

...rgic disease. Allergy/immunology specialists are pediatric or internal medicine physicians who have elected an additional two years of training to become specialized in the treatment of asthma, allergy and immunologic disease. Established in 1943, the AAAAI has more than 6,000 members in the United States, C...

Pediatricians Resignations Cause Concern at Sale

...ld not be able to deliver premature babies without pediatric support. Dr Guirguis voiced his regrets about Dr Goss's resignation and hoped that the hospital could convince Dr McCubbin at least to stay on. "I hope that the new pediatrician would come sooner than the six months, maybe in three months, in whi...

Proteins – A New Way to Treat Children's Muscle Diseas

...aviolet light), or water deprivation. Mrs. Elst, pediatric immunologist at the University Medical Centre Utrecht, said, 'We have shown for the first time that HSP60 plays an active part in the control of the inflammatory process in JDM. Thus, therapy aimed at the expansion of T-cells with regulatory capaciti...

Further Studies Needed To Completely Understand About Ventricular Fibrillation

According to a large national pediatric study conducted by Vinay Nadkarni, MD, and Peter A...hat this study questions the existing paradigms in pediatric cardiac critical care. Previously it was thought that abnormal rhythms during cardiac arrests were u...

Researchers Have Linked Rett Syndrome to Mitochondrial Gene

...ery excited about this paper," says Bruce Cohen, a pediatric neurologist who specializes in mitochondrial diseases at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Cohen, who did not take part in the work, says it validates the suspicions of a few researchers who have argued that malfunctioning mitochondria pla...

Voluntary Error-Reporting System Ensures Patient Safety

...Among these: ? A computerized ordering tool for pediatric chemotherapy that reduces medication errors in chi... care unit, and currently used system-wide for all pediatric patients(for more information, see http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/pages/news/archivedetails.cfm?new...

Cancer Causing Protein May Heal Alzheimers

...ypes of cancer, including brain, breast cancer and pediatric tumors and were known to promote tumor growth and aid the spread of cancer. While searching for ways to attack Id's cancer-causing properties, Iavarone and Anna Lasorella, assistant professor of pediatrics and pathology at the Institute, discovered ...

US Emergency Rooms ill prepared for Disasters

... surveyed the condition of hospital-based ER care, pediatric emergency care and out-of-hospital emergency medical services it was found that patients often have to wait hours and sometimes even days to get a hospital bed, ambulances are turned away from full ERs about 500,000 times a year. According to the rep...

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