NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children and adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis who have a clinical response to treatment with the biologic agent abatacept experience a significant improvement…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When children with overactive bladder have a poor response to medical therapy, a course of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) applied to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Early, prehospital administration of nebulized 5% saline to infants with acute bronchiolitis reduces illness severity significantly without undue side effects, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The quadrivalent measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine is associated with twice as many febrile seizures as same-day vaccination with separate MMR and varicella vaccines, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Few pediatric patients with complex febrile seizures have acute bacterial meningitis if other signs and symptoms are absent, clinicians at Children’s Hospital Boston,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The distress of multiple venipunctures in hospitalized pediatric patients can be avoided by obtaining blood samples through a peripheral venous catheter placed for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combining oral and injectable antihistamines or corticosteroids appears more effective for treating acute urticaria in children than using just one treatment modality, Taiwanese…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The addition of prophylactic phenobarbital to whole-body cooling reduced seizures in newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in a small observational study. According to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Incidental findings on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are seen in a significant minority of children, although most of these findings are…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nonintravenous midazolam (Versed) is better at ending status epilepticus than diazepam (Valium) in children and young adults, and is just as safe, according…