Jennifer Daru, MD, Chief of Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at California Pacific Medical Center San Francisco, speaking here at the 2009 Pediatric Hospitalist Conference in Tampa, Fla,…
Jennifer Daru, MD, Chief of Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at California Pacific Medical Center San Francisco, speaking here at the 2009 Pediatric Hospitalist Conference in Tampa, Fla,…
Elizabeth Szalay, MD, Professor of Pediatric Surgery, University of New Mexico, discusses the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency in children in the USA. Only 16% of children in…
Elizabeth Szalay, MD, Professor of Pediatric Surgery, University of New Mexico, discusses the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency in children in the USA. Only 16% of children in…
Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, Chief Medical Officer Policy Division for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Executive Director Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative-Effectiveness Research at Health and…
Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, Chief Medical Officer Policy Division for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Executive Director Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative-Effectiveness Research at Health and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that breastfeeding requires no more (or less) resting energy expenditure (REE) than bottle-feeding in preterm infants. This finding runs counter…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Transfusion of two rather than one unit of partially HLA-matched umbilical cord blood (UCB) appears to reduce the risk of relapse in leukemia…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hospitalized children with impending cardiac arrest have better survival when cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is started during bradycardia rather than after the onset of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with chronic kidney disease have a high prevalence of masked hypertension, often in association with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), research findings indicate.…