Tag: Pediatrics

A study of 1,101 U.S. children with obesity finds that accurate weight perception and parental awareness drive weight loss intentions ...

Medicaid Spending Held Steady as Care Coordination Program Served Children With Chronic Disease

A five-year analysis of a comprehensive care coordination program for Medicaid-enrolled children with chronic conditions found stable expenditures during grant ...

Every Day of Waiting Counts: Decade-Long Study Reveals Why Children Miss Specialist Appointments

A 10-year audit of over 156,000 pediatric referrals in Singapore found that each additional 30 days of waiting raised the ...

When Tuberculosis Reaches the Skin: A Teenager’s Chest-Wall Infection Offers Hard Lessons

A case report from Indonesia describes how an adolescent boy's inadequately treated tuberculosis resurfaced as rare scrofuloderma extending to the ...

AI Model Flags Which Food-Allergic Babies Will Develop Asthma by School Age

A prospective study of 447 food-allergic infants reports a cost-sensitive ensemble model that predicts school-age asthma with an AUC of ...

Hepatitis B Vaccine Response Holds Steady in Children with G6PD Deficiency, Study Finds

A cross-sectional study in southern China found no statistically detectable difference in hepatitis B vaccine antibody persistence or reported post-vaccination ...

Fatty Liver Disease Affects One in Five Children Worldwide, Landmark Scan Study Finds

An international study of more than 9,300 children across 17 countries finds that fatty liver disease affects about one in ...

Childhood Obesity and Eczema: Systematic Review Probes a Growing Immune Link

A systematic review from McMaster University synthesizes studies linking childhood obesity with atopic dermatitis, revealing both biologically plausible connections and ...

Childhood UTI Bacteria Show Soaring Ciprofloxacin Resistance in Six-Year Hospital Study

A six-year analysis of over 10,000 pediatric urine isolates at a Turkish tertiary hospital finds ciprofloxacin resistance in E. coli ...

One in Twelve Asian Children May Have Functional Constipation, Major Review Finds

A meta-analysis of 17 studies covering more than 175,000 young people estimates that 8 percent of Asian children and adolescents ...

Blood Test for Tuberculosis Shows Strengths and Gaps in Chinese Children

A large Chinese study of 448 children and young adults finds the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus blood test useful for diagnosing ...

Giving Kids Glasses Boosts Quality of Life, One-Year Myopia Study Finds

A one-year Chinese cohort study found that fitting myopic children aged 3 to 12 with full-correction spectacles significantly improved quality-of-life ...

Rapid Sputum Test Proves Highly Accurate for Detecting Tuberculosis in High-Risk Children

A six-year South African study found that the Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra test on induced sputum achieved over 90 percent sensitivity ...

Blood Test Combining Cytokines and Vitamin D Could Flag Complex Febrile Seizures in Children

Chinese researchers have built a nomogram from serum interleukin-1 beta, interleukin-6, and vitamin D levels that distinguishes complex from simple ...

Autistic Children With Sound Sensitivities Show Distinct Brain Signature to Speech Timing

A large study of Chinese children finds that autistic children with auditory atypicalities show an exaggerated brain response to changes ...

Virtual Family Rounds in the NICU Show Real Benefits a Clinical Trial Alone Missed

A mixed methods implementation evaluation of a randomized trial found that virtual family-centered rounds in the neonatal intensive care unit ...

Stuffy Noses, Restless Nights: Allergic Rhinitis Disrupts Sleep Arousal in Children with Breathing Disorders

A Taiwanese study of 643 children provides the first evidence that allergic rhinitis is linked to impaired arousal regulation in ...

Machine Learning Maps How Environment and Immunity Shape Childhood Eczema Risk

A machine learning analysis of 217 South African AmaXhosa children has identified one protective and two susceptibility clusters linking rural ...

Deadly Bloodstream Infections Strike One in Four Children with Central Lines, Study Finds

A four-year Iranian cohort study found that 25.2 percent of hospitalized children with central venous catheters developed bloodstream infections, 22.0 ...

Septic Shock Strikes Four in Ten Children With Suspected Infections in Rural Uganda