Pediatrics
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How new dietary guidelines affect health care providers
While the new dietary guidelines, released jointly by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department Agriculture, are geared...
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Consider reimmunizing with MMR after HIV-infected children undergo antiretroviral treatment
Reimmunization with a single dose of MMR in children with HIV who have undergone antiretroviral therapy in most cases leads to seroconversion to...
Conference Coverage
Redefining care model could improve pediatric obesity prevention, treatment
Plenty of barriers exist to the provision of comprehensive care for obese children, and effective solutions are few, particularly in the preschool...
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Does poverty predetermine pediatric obesity?
Childhood obesity and poverty are increasingly linked, socioeconomic data indicate.
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Novel polio vaccine strains promise improved post-eradication safety
Newly developed polio vaccine strains could replace currently used risky inactivated vaccines, thereby allowing for safer vaccine production in a...
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LAIV, IIV almost equally effective against influenza
Inactivated influenza vaccine and live attenuated influenza vaccine show no significant difference in effectiveness against most strains of...
Conference Coverage
Subtly elevated maternal glucose linked to increased risk of tetralogy of Fallot
Nondiabetic women with second-trimester subclinical elevated blood glucose have a sharply increased risk of tetralogy of Fallot.
Conference Coverage
AES: Seizure freedom attainable for most epilepsy patients
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Preschool ASD prevalence estimates lower than grade school estimates
Estimated prevalence of autism spectrum disorder among 4-year-olds falls short of the estimated prevalence among 8-year-olds in a recent study...
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CDC sounds alarm over marketing of e-cigs to teens
The CDC is calling for stricter regulations on e-cigarette marketing now that data indicate more than two-thirds of U.S. teens are exposed to ads...
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Stimulant use may raise psychosis risk for children of those with mental illness
Young patients with ADHD who take stimulants and have a family history of severe mental illness might be at greater risk for developing psychotic...