Pediatrics News

• New Health Cybersecurity Rule: What Docs Should Know A proposed federal rule would require hospitals and physicians’ groups to beef up health cybersecurity measures to protect patient privacy and prevent ransomware attacks. Some changes could be expensive, experts said.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• Long-Term Budesonide Shows Sustained Efficacy in EoE Long-term budesonide orodispersible tablets effectively maintained remission in patients with eosinophilic esophagitis and demonstrated a favorable safety profile.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• Leaving ED Without Being Seen Entails Increasing Risks Researchers call for long-term, consistent funding for primary, emergency, hospital, and long-term care.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Why Aren’t More PCPs Offering Contraceptive Services? Experts say the primary care workforce is well suited to meet patients’ contraceptive needs but the numbers of primary care physicians offering prescriptions and procedures is strikingly low.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• New Trial Seeks to Pin Down Pediatric PAH Treatment Phase 3 open-label study will compare two protocols for children with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• RSV Vaccines and Treatments Face Global Access Hurdles Vaccines and monoclonal antibodies are reducing RSV hospitalizations, but high costs and limited access in low-income countries hinder global epidemiology changes.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Cost Barriers Influence Adherence to Asthma Care According to a recent study, financial constraint was a major contributor to nonadherence to medications in adults with asthma in the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Med Students: Ready for Residency, but Not Career New survey results showed that some med students feel confident heading into the next phase of learning but not so much in their eventual jobs.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Meta-Analysis Finding of a Fluoride-IQ Link Controversial Review finds an inverse association and a dose-response link between fluoride and IQ; editorialists disagree on the results and conduct of the study.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• MSWS 2024 Inflammation Now the Key Target for Seborrheic Dermatitis Topical antifungals, although often effective, are being discouraged in the early treatment of seborrheic dermatitis now that inflammation is considered key to the underlying pathology.
  Medscape Medical News, January 06, 2025
• US Surgeon General Urges Cancer Warnings for Alcoholic Drinks -Alcoholic drinks should carry a label warning consumers about their cancer risks, the U.S. Surgeon General said in an advisory on Friday, noting that their consumption...
  Reuters Health Information, January 03, 2025
• Brain Changes in Youth Who Use Substances: Cause or Effect? New research challenges the idea that substance use explains structural brain changes in youth, a theory that underlies current brain disease models of addiction.
  Medscape Medical News, January 03, 2025
• RSV Vaccine Protects Older Adults From Severe Disease The RSVpreF vaccine demonstrated 91% effectiveness against RSV-related lower respiratory tract disease in older adults during the first 5 months of use.
  Medscape Medical News, January 02, 2025
• Teen Lungs Thrive With Prompt HIV Care in Childhood Early antiretroviral therapy in children with perinatal HIV alleviated HIV-related lung function abnormalities and safeguarded lung health throughout their teenage years.
  Medscape Medical News, January 02, 2025
• Drugmakers to Raise US Prices on Over 250 Medicines Starting Jan. 1 Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 250 branded medications including Pfizer COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, Bristol Myers Squibb's cancer cell therapies and...
  Reuters Health Information, December 31, 2024
• Novartis Gene Therapy Helps Children With Rare Muscle Disorder in Study Swiss drugmaker Novartis said on Monday its gene therapy helped improve motor function in children with a rare muscle disorder that leaves patients too weak to walk, talk...
  Reuters Health Information, December 30, 2024
• Tildrakizumab Shows Durable Response in Scalp Psoriasis Patients with scalp psoriasis responded well to tildrakizumab at 52 weeks.
  Medscape Medical News, December 30, 2024
• Axolotl Shows Promise in Unlocking Skin Regeneration Secrets After studying the axolotl for 8 years, researchers are developing a line of cosmeceutical and over-the-counter products containing urodele collagen extract derived from the creature’s neotenic tissue.
  Medscape Medical News, December 30, 2024
• Pediatric Central Line Skin Reactions Lack Rx Protocols A small survey reveals that most dermatologists consulted for central line dressing-related adverse skin reactions in children said standardized protocols are lacking.
  Medscape Medical News, December 26, 2024
• Parents of Children With AD Suffer Related Sleep Loss A study revealed that parents of children with atopic dermatitis experience less than optimal sleep and are more reliant on sleep aids.
  Medscape Medical News, December 24, 2024