Pediatrics
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Bone growth affected by ketogenic diet in children with epilepsy
Major finding: Participants on the ketogenic diet demonstrated a mean bone mineral density lumbar Z-score decrease of 0.1756 units/year. Bone loss...
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IVF tied to small rise in mental retardation rate
Major finding: Compared with children born after spontaneous conception, those born after any IVF procedure had a significantly increased risk of...
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Encephalitis travel vaccine recommendation expanded to children
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Concussion recovery takes longer if children have had one before
Major finding: The median duration of concussion symptoms was 12 days in children and teens who hadn’t been concussed before, 24 days in those who...
Conference Coverage
Education not enough: Student attitudes on concussion are poor
Major finding: Many of the 120 high school football players who participated in a survey-based study (70%) were knowledgeable about concussions,...
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Promising autism drugs progress through pipeline
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DSM-5 criteria 'at odds' with early autism diagnosis
Major finding: Of 237 children who had been diagnosed with ASD by age 3 based on DSM-IV criteria over a 7-year period, only 35% met the criteria...
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Hypertension hurts memory, attention in children
Major finding: Teens with hypertension scored worse on measures of memory, attention, and executive function than did those who were normotensive....
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Study supports laws requiring cyclists to wear helmets
Major finding: States with mandatory bicycle helmet laws had only 84% of the deaths per population that states without helmet laws had, after...