NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The decline in cognitive function in children with Prader-Willi syndrome can be stabilized with ongoing growth-hormone (GH) therapy, a Dutch team reports in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In African Americans with moderate-to-severe asthma, treatment for a year with an inhaled combination of budesonide and formoterol is safe and reduces asthma…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The neonate with suspected sepsis presents several challenges for clinicians, which are addressed in a newly published Clinical Report from the American Academy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When it comes to accuracy, there is little difference between mercury and aneroid blood pressure measurements in pediatric patients, according to a report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Depending on the treatment they received, survivors of childhood cancer may require long-term follow-up because of an elevated risk of symptomatic cardiac events,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The sedative effects of benzodiazepine exposure through breast milk appear to present minimal risk of central nervous system (CNS) depression in infants, results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When testing indicates fetal lung immaturity at 34 weeks’ gestation or more, administration of antenatal corticosteroids does not reduce respiratory problems in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A combined oral contraceptive containing nomegestrol acetate and 17beta-estradiol (E2) taken in a 24–4-day regimen is somewhat more effective in preventing pregnancy than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It’s safe and beneficial to start small volumes of milk feeds early, between 24 and 48 hours after birth, in babies who are…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Reduced-dose chemotherapy in children with Down syndrome (DS) associated acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome effectively maintains survival, researchers report in a March…