NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a head-to-head trial, latanoprost proved to be noninferior to timolol in the treatment of glaucoma in children, according to a report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children who have a ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) inserted before their 5th birthday have more than a six-fold increased risk of inguinal hernia, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adolescent girls with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) are at considerably heightened risk for sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), researchers report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite promising results in some other lysosomal storage disease, treatment with miglustat does not improve behavioral problems in patients with type III mucopolysaccharidosis,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antenatal indomethacin given to prevent preterm labor is associated with a significantly increased risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants, investigators report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using intra-arterial chemotherapy to treat retinoblastoma can produce a “dramatic response,” but also comes with the risk of both mild and severe side…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Tc-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) renal scanning is not an accurate test for identifying children with dilating vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), suggest results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In pregnancy, antiepileptic drug (AED) polytherapy that includes valproate poses a higher risk of fetal malformations than therapy without this drug, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For preterm infants undergoing venipuncture, oral sucrose and application of EMLA cream has a greater analgesic effect than sucrose alone, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with persistent oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) are unexpectedly at high risk for growth retardation, Israeli researchers report in a May 30th…