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Children can experience ischemic strokes, which occur when there is blockage of blood flow in a major artery, or hemorrhagic strokes, which is caused by a ruptured blood vessel in the brain. These two types of strokes are equally common in children, whereas most adult strokes are ischemic.
Baylor College of Medicine (Pediatria) - Mar, 24 Maggio 2011
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Pediatricians from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and elsewhere have discovered a link between low levels of vitamin D and anemia in children. The findings, presented on May 1 at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Denver, Colorado, show that vitamin D deficiency may play an important role in anemia.
Johns Hopkins Hospital (Pediatria) - Mar, 10 Maggio 2011
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Since the first Paris Appeal conference, thousands of scientists and citizens have signed the consensus statement, demonstrating their concern about the effects of a deteriorating environment on public health. The 2011 congress focused on children’s health and environment sought to bring home the message to both policy-makers and the public about the urgency to act now. HEAL stressed the need for cutting exposure to harmful chemicals in order to better protect children.
Health and Environment Alliance (Pediatria) - Mar, 3 Maggio 2011
http://www.env-health.org/
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the use of Menactra in children as young as 9 months for the prevention of invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, C, Y and W-135. Menactra already is approved for use in people ages 2 through 55 years.
Food and Drug Administration (Pediatria) - Mar, 26 Aprile 2011
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Passport for Care, an innovative, web-based system that guides health care for pediatric cancer survivors, is poised to have an even wider impact as it is now being made available to the more than 220 institutions of the Children's Oncology Group. The Passport for Care website allows oncologists to enter a survivor's basic medical history—including type of cancer and treatment including any chemotherapy, radiation or surgery. With the click of a mouse, the Passport for Care program then generates individualized health care recommendations for the long-term survivor based on the most up-to-date COG survivorship guidelines.
Texas Children's Cancer Center and Hematology Service (Pediatria) - Lun, 18 Aprile 2011
http://www.txccc.org/content.cfm?menu_id=119
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Hospitals can reduce the risk of life-threatening bloodstream infections in children with peripherally inserted central venous catheters by assessing daily the patient’s progress and removing the device as early as possible, according to a new Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study published online March 31 in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Johns Hopkins Hospital (Pediatria) - Lun, 4 Aprile 2011
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Once a medical rarity in children, inflammatory bowel disease today is increasingly common in kids, but many of them may not be diagnosed in a timely manner, according to experts from the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Johns Hopkins Children’s.
Johns Hopkins Hospital (Pediatria) - Lun, 4 Aprile 2011
http://www.hopkinshospital.org
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The traditional therapy for asthma in children implies the use of ion therapy based on inhaled cortisones, but when this therapy is insufficient, which is the next step? Three different therapies have been examined in 165 children (between 6 and 17 years of age) who had had no satisfying control after 2-8 weeks with inhaled fluticasone (100 μ twice a day). Subjects have been randomized in double blind and triple crossover to receive each of the following therapies for 16 weeks: inhaled fluticasone up to 250 μ twice a day; lower-dose fluticasone plus a long-acting beta-agonist at the dose of 50 μ a day; low-dose fluticasone plus an antagonist of leukotriene-receptors at the dose of 5-10 mg a day.
MedNews (Pediatria) - Lun, 14 Marzo 2011
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The commonest form of childhood epilepsy is, no doubt, the one characterized by absences, and for its treatment, valproic acid, ethosuximide and lamotrigine are more frequently used. With a double-blinded randomized trial, these three drugs have been compared in 453 children (averagely 7 years of age) affected by absence epilepsy, confirmed by an electroencephalogram. The dosage of drugs has been changed every 4 weeks according to clinical symptoms, and the primary outcome has been set as an overall of efficacy and tolerability.
MedNews (Pediatria) - Lun, 7 Marzo 2011
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In 2005, the American Academy of Pediatrics declared that there are no sufficient data to advise circumcision in newborns as a routine practice. After that date, further data have been made available, clearing up the aspects of the matter.
MedNews (Pediatria) - Mar, 25 Gennaio 2011
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