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Needless abdominal CT scans can be avoided in children, study says
Feb. 1, 2013 A study of more than 12,000 children from emergency departments throughout the country in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) has identified seven factors that can help physicians determine the need for a computed tomography (CT) scan following blunt trauma to the abdomen.
Just 11 percent of adults, 5 percent of children participate in medical research in U.S.
Jan. 31, 2013 Medical research is vital to the advancement of health care, but many medical research studies have too few people who participate
Antibiotics cut death rate for malnourished children
Jan. 30, 2013 Severely malnourished children are far more likely to recover and survive when given antibiotics along with a therapeutic peanut-based food than children who are simply treated with the therapeutic food alone, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St
Do common painkillers cause kidney failure in children?
Jan. 25, 2013 Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen and naproxen, are commonly used to treat pain and reduce fever in children. However, the use of NSAIDs has been shown to cause acute kidney injury (AKI) in some children.
Beta carotene may protect people with common genetic risk factor for type-2 diabetes
Jan. 22, 2013 Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have found that for people harboring a genetic predisposition that is prevalent among Americans, beta carotene, which the body converts to a close cousin of vitamin A, may lower the risk for the most common form of diabetes, while gamma tocopherol, the major form of vitamin E in the American diet, may increase risk for the disease. The scientists used a “big data” approach to hunt down interactions between gene variants previously associated with increased risk for type-2 diabetes and blood levels of substances previously implicated in type-2 diabetes risk
Smoke-free law linked to large fall in child asthma hospital admissions
Jan. 21, 2013 The introduction of smoke-free legislation in England was immediately followed by a fall in the number of children admitted to hospital with asthma symptoms, a new study has found. NHS statistics analysed by researchers at Imperial College London show a 12.3 per cent fall in admissions for childhood asthma in the first year after the law on smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces came into effect in July 2007.
Potential to prevent, reverse disabilities in children born prematurely, study suggests
Jan. 17, 2013 Physician-scientists at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital are challenging the way pediatric neurologists think about brain injury in the pre-term infant
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