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Medicis Pharmaceutical company enters pediatric market

Medicis is the leading independent pharmaceutical company in the United States focusing primarily on the treatment of dermatological conditions. Based in Wilmington, Mass., Ascent is a pharmaceutical company primarily dedicated to the specialty of pediatrics. Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation and Ascent Pediatrics, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agre...

Drug for pediatric brain cancer

Scientists from Canada are reporting promising results from a study of a new drug for children with acute brain tumors. The drug fotemustine, when delivered intravenously every three weeks, was found to be partially effective in shrinking the tumors. The drug is one of a group of drugs called chloroethylnitrosoureas. They were first discovered in 1959 and have since been shown to hel...

Drug for pediatric brain cancer

Scientists from Canada are reporting promising results from a study of a new drug for children with acute brain tumors. The drug fotemustine, when delivered intravenously every three weeks, was found to be partially effective in shrinking the tumors. The drug is one of a group of drugs called chloroethylnitrosoureas. They were first discovered in 1959 and have since been shown to hel...

Support Services found to Dramatically Impact Pediatric Health Care

A new study shows providing behavior and development support to existing health care dramatically improves the quality of pediatric health care and parenting practices.// Researchers from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health followed nearly 6,000 children from 15 sites which was designed to bridge the gap between families and physicians. It places specialists in the pediat...

Pediatricians differ in their opinion of child abuse

Doctors examining the children of suspected child abuse tend to differ widely in their judgment of what// constitutes child abuse. A research reported by the researchers of Penn State College of Medicine say that there exist severe contradictions among the doctors themselves regarding their opinion of whether the child had been abused or not. Conducting the first systematic examination...

Lorenzos oil for prevention of pediatric neurological disorder

Investigations have shown that daily oral doses of Lorenzos oil can prevent the spread of a form of pediatric neurological disorder// called X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD). Researchers from Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore have reported that use of Lorenzos oil have prevented the spread of the disease X-ALD in boys aged 7 years and younger who were diagnosed with the dise...

New Treatment Discovered For Pediatric Cholera

Single dose of antibiotics may be used to treat childhood cholera. Researchers in Bangladesh have found that severe cholera in children can be treated effectively with a single dose // of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin , according to a study published online by The Lancet. Cholera is a major global health problem particularly in children in areas in less-developed countries. In...

Pediatricians Need To Talk To Parents Of Overweight Kids

Researchers from Saint Louis University reported in the journal Pediatrics that pediatricians often miss the opportunity to talk to the parents of obese children and help them identify the problem and treat // it to bring the body weight of children back to normal. Researchers feel that it’s really important that pediatricians identify overweight children during well-child visits and...

A New Diagnostic Approach To Pediatric Interstitial Lung Disease

Chronic interstitial lung disease (ILD) comprises a large, heterogeneous group of rare pulmonary disorders //characterized by diffuse infiltrates, restrictive lung disease, and abnormal gas exchange with considerable mortality and morbidity. ILD presents enormous diagnostic challenges because the differential diagnosis includes more than 100 conditions in both adults2 and children. Rese...

Acute Gastroenteritis Responds To Treatment With Either Gatorade Or Pedialyte

Satish S.C. Rao, M.D, Ph.D., FACG of the University of Iowa and colleagues at the Osmania Medical College in Hyderabad have found that Gatorade and Pedialyte are equally effective as oral rehydration salts in children suffering from and vomiting related to acute viral gastroenteritis.// The researchers have presented their findings at the 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Americ...

FDA Accords Priority Review For Pediatric Crohn's Disease Drug

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided to accord a priority review for the drug REMICADE (R) (infliximab) to be used in the treatment of pediatric// Crohn's disease, the drug's manufacturer Centocor, Inc. announced today. Crohn's disease affects the gastrointestinal tract and causes diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain and weight loss. As of now there is no drug to treat child...

WHO Updates Outdated Pediatric Growth Charts

The World Health Organization (WHO) is in the process of updating the pediatric growth charts. The outdated charts will be replaced with the new one, which will present// the rates at which the babies are supposed to grow, in a more accurate form. The 20-year old charts are said to be based on growth patterns of babies fed formula-milk. The revision is based on growth data from breast...

Pediatricians Resignations Cause Concern at Sale

South-east Victoria Sale Hospital's two pediatricians, Jo McCubbin and Peter Goss have given their resignations with three months notice with three months notice //. However a full time replacement is not expected for at least six months. This has led to concerns among obstetricians at Sale. Sale obstetrician Dr Refaat Guirguis has said that obstetricians would not be able to deliv...

British pediatricians urge parents to administer MMR to children

MMR vaccine has been shrouded in controversy. Now, Britain's reputed pediatricians, nearly 30 of them have called for an end to the raging //debates over this vaccine. Infact they have issued a letter to the public that warns of a threat to young lives by forsaking the triple shots of MMR. They have appealed to the politicians, healthcare experts and the media to defuse the entire...

Mental Health Providers Can Be Successfully Located With Pediatricians

Mental health providers can be successfully located with or in pediatric practices, according to researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and the N.C. Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.// Writing in the journal Clinical Pediatrics, the researchers said, “With the increased need for identification, diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders in pri...

World’s First Pediatric Laparoscopic Liver Surger

Mark Thomas, MD, an assistant professor and transplant surgeon at the University of Cincinnati (UC) is credited with performing the first pediatric laparoscopic liver// surgery. This procedure is a specialized surgery that removes tumors in the liver without first performing an incision. The operation was done on a 2-year-old boy with liver cancer at La Raza Pediatric Medical Hospital in...

Pediatric Dental Care Found Wanting

In Daviess County the dental care for poor children and youth is below par although it is not completely absent. Around 20 elementary schools// in the area can avail free dental check-ups by volunteer dentists. Also the Christian Dental Mission supplies volunteer dentists and hygienists for free programs in the area. But the fact remains that even if elementary students receive care, t...

Doctors Unaware If Pediatric Dosages Are Safe

Drugs prescribed to children are not checked properly for their safety and efficacy, says a new study by Duke University Medical Center researchers. // The drugs that are being indiscriminately prescribed include antidepressants, antiseizure medications and sedatives. The researchers analyzed drugs covered by a "congressionally mandated program known as "pediatric exclusivity," throug...

Videoconferencing, an impetus to Pediatric Oncology

An article in the January 2007 issue of the Pediatric Blood & Cancer investigates the use of videoconferencing in communicating// vital developments in healthcare between industrialized and developing countries, as a way to realize enhancements in patient healthcare. Pediatric oncology has witnessed path breaking strides in survival rates in industrialized countries over the last se...

Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative and Hawaii Biotech Partner Against Dengue Fever

The Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative (PDVI), a program of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), and Hawaii Biotech // , announced today their partnership to help develop and make a Dengue vaccine widely available for the global prevention of Dengue fever, the second most widespread tropical disease after malaria. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease to which over 2 billion...

Pesticides Linked to High Risk of Pediatric Cancers - a Study Unveils

According to a study finding of Ron Matsusaki, a doctor from Canada, rare pediatric cancers have been found in potato-farming community of 14,000 //residents on the western tip of Canada's Prince Edward Island. According to his report, cancers are usually found in patients who live near a toxic waste site. The farming community is known to be severely polluted with pesticides 80 percent...

Pediatricians Stress the Importance of the National Children's Study

In a bid to salvage the National Children's Study- an attempt to study the health and the environment of children in the United States//, Pediatricians have beseeched their congressmen to get their act together, in order to allow the study to take place. The project plan, which is the combined effort of hundreds of scientists since 2000, envisages monitoring almost 100,000 children fr...

Study Reveals 1.6 Million Pediatric Soccer Injuries

Soccer, one of the most prevalent sports in the world, has continued to grow in popularity in the United States. As the number of children participating in organized and// unorganized soccer leagues increases, so does the number of children at risk for injury. A study conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) at Columbus Children’s Hospital is the first...

New Pediatric Continuous Glucose Monitors Approved

The FDA has just approved two new devices from Medtronic for children and teenagers (ages 7-17), diagnosed with diabetes. REAL-Time Continuous Glucose// Monitoring (CGM) devices will soon be available in specially designed pedi models of the already approved MiniMed Paradigm? REAL-Time System and Guardian? REAL-Time System. Medtronic REAL-Time CGM therapy is clinically proven to help...

Most Pediatricians Do Not Hire Professional Interpreters for Bilingual Patients

Seventy percent of pediatricians rely on patients' family members rather than interpreters to provide language services, //according to a study by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Baltimore Examiner reports. For the report, lead author Dennis Kuo, a general pediatrics fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and colleagues surveyed 1,829 physicians from the American Academy of...

Shockwave Lithotripsy is Effective for Pediatric Urolithiasis

Shockwave Lithotripsy has been found to be an efficacious modality for pediatric urolithiasis, according to a recent review. The literature also shows that good results are obtained even with large stone// burdens, irrespective of stone location. Wadhwa, et al reviewed the outcomes of shockwave lithotripsy in the pediatric population in their center in New Delhi, India. They assessed t...

New, Less Painful Wound Treatment for Pediatric Patients

Negative pressure wound therapy is a new innovation in treating severe and complex wounds in children that decreases the need for frequent and stressful// dressing changes. A new study in Wound Repair and Regeneration shows that this technique has a wide range of applications with children, and can be life-saving. “This wound therapy is usually delivered via a vacuum system which appl...

Remicade(R) Get Approval for First and Only Biologic Treatment for Pediatric Crohn's Disease

HORSHAM, Pa. and KENILWORTH, N.J., Centocor, Inc. and Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) today announced that the European Commission has approved a new indication for REMICADE(R) (infliximab) allowing for the treatment of severe, active Crohn's disease (CD) in pediatric patients aged 6 to 17 years, who have not responded to conventional therapy including a corticosteroid, an immuno...

Most Pediatric Chemotherapy Mistakes Reach Patients

The vast majority of chemotherapy errors identified in children reach patients, according to one of the first epidemiological studies of cancer drug errors in children . Published in the July 1, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study concluded that the antimetabolite class of chemotherapeutic agents are most likely associated with errors, a...

Pediatric Seizure Study Underway in US to Decide Between Diazepam and Lorazepam

A nationwide study has been launched in US to determine which of the two current medications for pediatric seizures, diazepam and lorazepam, is more effective. Childhood seizures pose a serious problem for doctors. Epilepticus or continuous unrelenting seizures can lead to brain damage or even death if not treated. Now there are two drugs currently prescribed to tackle e...

Pediatric Cancer Stem Cell Identified

Dr. Leonard Zon (Childrens Hospital Boston) and colleagues have identified the cancer stem cell for rhabdomyosarcoma, the most common soft-tissue sarcoma of childhood. 'Identifying the cancer stem cell and the evolutionarily conserved genetic programs underlying self-renewal in ERMS will likely lead to new insights into how to destroy these cell types in established malignancies,'...

New, Less Painful Wound Treatment for Pediatric Patients

Negative pressure wound therapy is a new innovation in treating severe and complex wounds in children that decreases the need for frequent and stressful dressing changes. A new study in Wound Repair and Regeneration shows that this technique has a wide range of applications with children, and can be life-saving. This wound therapy is usually delivered via a vacuum system which appl...

Pediatric Use of ADHD Drug may Affect Developing Brain

The use of Ritalin, a stimulant similar to amphetamine and cocaine which is one of the most prescribed drugs for the attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), by young children may cause long-term changes in the developing brains, according to a study of mice by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. "The changes we saw in the brains of treated rats oc...

Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis

In the first systematic multi-year analysis of malpractice claims solely against pediatricians , the answer is neither yes nor no by the researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine report in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics. "We studied pediatricians and malpractice because while the medical malpractice issue is extremely stressful and gets a lot of press, and we...