Recently added articles from Pediatric News:

Data watch.(News)

Apr 01, 2008 ... <Pre> DATA WATCH Among Adolescents, Black Females Have Highest Prevalence of OverweightMales age Females aged 12-19 years12-19 years Blacks ...

FDA warns of potential fatalities from misuse of prescription cough product.(News)

Apr 01, 2008; Mechcatie, Elizabeth ... Deaths and life-threatening side effects associated with the misuse of a long-acting, prescription cough medicine that contains hydrocodone have prompted the Food and Drug Administration to issue a public health advisory about the dangers of the product when not used properly. ...

AAP forum calls for media blitz on value of vaccines.(Infectious Disease)

Apr 01, 2008; Schneider, Mary Ellen ... Educating the public about the benefits of vaccination is the top priority of the grassroots leadership of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The leadership of the AAP's chapters, sections, councils, and committees met at the Annual Leadership Forum in March to recommend ...

Calif. pediatricians seek solutions to primary care crisis: providing a medical home is a key focus.(News)

Apr 01, 2008; Schneider, Mary Ellen ... Dr. Donald Miller, a pediatrician in Oceanside, Calif., tries to go the extra mile for patients and their families by providing them with a medical home. Some aspects are as simple as offering evening and weekend appointments and creating a flexible scheduling policy that allows ...

W.Va. project aims to aid CV health.(News)

Apr 01, 2008; Brunk, Doug ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Year after year, West Virginia ranks near the bottom in state-by-state surveys of cardiovascular health and healthy lifestyle. In 1995, the age-adjusted rate of heart disease was 328 / 100,000, which is 21% higher than the national average and ...

Pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver boosts cardiovascular risk.(News)

Apr 01, 2008; Jancin, Bruce ... COLORADO SPRINGS -- Pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is strongly associated with multiple cardiovascular risk factors, often in excess of clinical thresholds for considering pharmacotherapy, Dr. Stephen Cook said at a conference of the American Heart Association. ...

ACIP: rabies vaccine, IG supplies will be 'less than ideal'.(News)

Apr 01, 2008; Tucker, Miriam E. ... ATLANTA -- Supplies of human rabies biologicals for pre- or postexposure prophylaxis in the United States are "manageable, but are expected to be less than ideal" over the next few years, Charles E. Rupprecht, V.M.D., said at the winter meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization ...

Mandated Ill. hep B vaccination tops 90% goal.(Infectious Disease)

Apr 01, 2008; Bell, John R. ... A 1997 state requirement that all children in Illinois receive the hepatitis B vaccine series in order to enter the fifth grade has not only raised the rate of vaccination to more than 90% in a group of Chicago-area high school students but also has narrowed the vaccination disparity ...

Infection control begins with shots, clean hands.(Infectious Diseases)

Apr 01, 2008; Splete, Heidi ... Consistent handwashing, staff immunizations, and common sense are the keys to preventing and controlling infections in an office practice, said Dr. Jerome O. Klein, a professor of pediatrics at Boston University. Physicians in office practice have two obligations: to prevent ...

No vaccine-autism link in feds' ruling.(ID Consult)

Apr 01, 2008; Pichichero, Michael E. ... I would like to clear up some of the confusion surrounding a recent federal government ruling that vaccines might have contributed to autismlike symptoms in a child with underlying mitochondrial disorder. The media have portrayed this as an acknowledgment of a link between vaccines and ...

Longer needle, thigh site better for fifth DTaP vaccination.(Infectious Diseases)(Clinical report)

Apr 01, 2008; Bell, John R. ... Use of a 25-mm needle was associated with less risk of redness and pain than was use of a 16-mm needle among children receiving their fifth diphtheriatetanus-acellular pertussis vaccine, according to results from a prospective randomized trial. The results also suggested that ...

HPV infection documented at 18% in teen girls, study shows.(Infectious Diseases)

Apr 01, 2008; Sullivan, Michele G. ... CHICAGO -- Cancer- and genital wart-associated HPV was the most prevalent sexually transmitted disease among teenage girls, affecting 18% of participants in the first large study of STDs in this population. Overall, 26% of 14- to 19-year-olds were infected with at least one STD ....

Mass. curtails free vaccines for older children.(Infectious Diseases)

Apr 01, 2008; Anderson, Jane ... Massachusetts health authorities, facing huge demands for vaccines to prevent meningitis, diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis, and chickenpox, have asked the state's pediatricians to limit use of the shots in older children under the state's free vaccine program. Although state ...

FDA approves two-dose rotavirus vaccine.(Infectious Diseases)

Apr 01, 2008; Mechcatie, Elizabeth ... The Food and Drug Administration approved the Rotarix vaccine on April 3, making it the second vaccine approved for the treatment of rotavirus in the United States. The oral live-attenuated vaccine, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, is approved for the prevention of ...

Fever in child less than 2 years old? Think UTI.(Infectious Diseases)

Apr 01, 2008; Kirn, Timothy F. ... INCLINE VALLEY, NEV. -- Urinary tract infection is so common in children younger than age 2 years that a physician should almost always get a urine culture when working up a fever in a child that age, Dr. Nathan Kuppermann said at an emergency medicine conference sponsored by the ...

DTaP vaccine now cleared for all five doses.(Infectious Diseases)

Apr 01, 2008; Mechcatie, Elizabeth ... The diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine manufactured by Sanofi-Pasteur was approved last month for use as the fifth consecutive dose of the vaccine series in children aged 4 through 6 years, following four previous doses of the same vaccine. The vaccine, ...

Tincture of time may not be enough.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

Apr 01, 2008; Marks, Kevin ... With regard to the article on developmental delay issues by Dr. William G. Wilkoff ("Biding One's Tongue," Letters From Maine, January 2008, p. 26), I think it's safe to say I am one of those pediatricians who equate early intervention with motherhood and apple pie. The case in ...

Does amoxicillin really fail vs. strep?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

Apr 01, 2008; Scholten, Roger ... I'm curious, as I'm sure many are, about recurrent group A streptococci in some of our patients ("Amoxicillin Failure in Strep Throat," ID Consult, September 2007, p. 10). The theory expressed by Dr. Michael E. Pichichero brings up some interesting possibilities with regard to ...

Keep youngsters safe--from hysteria.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

Apr 01, 2008; Baumgartner, Karl M. ... Boy, was I grateful to read Dr. William G. Wilkoff's column regarding lead exposure ("Heavy Metal Tales," Letters From Maine, February 2008, p. 24). It was nice to hear a little levelheaded thinking about a safety issue. As I dutifully wade through all of the journals and ...

Weighty mysteries.(Letters From Maine)

Apr 01, 2008; Wilkoff, William G. ... Since I had seen her last year, my 5-year-old patient Tiana had gained so much weight that I almost didn't recognize her. I knew that when I looked at her growth curve it would now include a steep upslope. The change had not caught her mother, Mafia, by surprise. Tiana's weight was the ...