Three-year-old Elizabeth Zakutansky was born with a rare genetic condition that causes multiple seizures. Her neurologist, a top expert on treating her condition, practices at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, less than an hour’s drive from the Zakutanskys’ home in…
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Parents report lower rates of child car seat use in ride-share
A national survey of parents revealed that most parents who used ride-share services did so with their children, but only half of the respondents reported that children who were 8 years or younger traveled in the recommended child car seats…
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A Single-County Measles Outbreak Cost Millions, Study Finds
A measles outbreak that infected 72 people in Washington State cost approximately $3.4 million, including costs of the public health response, medical treatment expenses, and productivity losses, according to a study published online March 12 in Pediatrics. With measles outbreaks…
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Shorter Course of Antibiotics Effective for Kids With Community-Acquired Pneumonia
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A five-day course high-dose amoxicillin works as well as a standard care 10 day course for previously healthy children with community-acquired pneumonia who do not require hospital admission, according to results of the SAFER trial….
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COVID-19 Isolation and an Infant’s Immune System
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Queirra Fenderson, a first-time mom in Fort Washington, MD, gave birth to her daughter, Arya, at the end of December 2019. On the advice of their…
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Caregivers Could Use HIV Self-Testing for Hard-to-Reach Kids
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Caregivers living with HIV could use at-home testing to monitor the children in their households, according to researchers in Zimbabwe. HIV self-testing has been effective in low-resource countries, and it could help in locations where…
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UK Variant Not Causing Worse Illness in Children
(Reuters) – The coronavirus variant first identified in the UK does not cause more severe disease in children than variants circulating earlier in 2020, a single-center study suggests. Doctors at King’s College Hospital in London compared 20 children hospitalized for…
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Scientists study how a single gene alteration may have separated modern humans from extinct hominins
As a professor of pediatrics and cellular and molecular medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Alysson R. Muotri, PhD, has long studied how the brain develops and what goes wrong in neurological disorders. For almost as…
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1 in 4 kids who get antibiotics in children’s hospitals are prescribed the drugs incorrectly
The overuse of antibiotics poses an increasing threat to children who develop — or already have — drug-resistant infections that are difficult or impossible to treat, and can cause extended hospitalization, disability and even death. At any given time, about…
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