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LARCs remain best contraception for teens
CHICAGO – Only 4% of teens using contraception choose LARCs, the most effective contraceptive choice.
Pediatric News Turns 50
Group B streptococcus
Intrapartum testing for GBS colonization and intrapartum antibiotics of colonized and high-risk women has dramatically reduced early-onset GBS...
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Skills training improves psychosocial outcomes for young cancer patients
Developing skills in stress management, goal setting, positive reframing, and benefit finding led to improved psychosocial outcomes over standard...
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ACIP recommends third MMR dose, if outbreak risk
Recommendation based on 78% lower risk of mumps in college students who received 3rd dose.
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Conjugate typhoid vaccine safe and effective in phase 2 trials
The conjugate vaccine could be safely administered to children as young as 6 months of age.
Pediatric News Turns 50
Vaccine renaissance
The driver of the major change in pediatric infectious diseases after 1989 was economics.
Pediatric News Turns 50
Artemisinin: Its global impact on the treatment of malaria
Although not endemic in the United States, malaria still is brought in by travelers.
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Evidence-backed questions can guide a GERD vs. NERD differential diagnosis
These five questions can help make the diagnosis
Pediatric News Turns 50
A ‘game changer’ for pediatric HIV
A look at how vertical transmission of HIV was largely halted in less than 25 years.
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Dermatologists, rheumatologists differ in management of pediatric discoid lupus erythematosus
The two specialties have significant practice-based differences in their treatment of children with discoid lupus erythematosus.
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Intellectual impairment seems not a risk of asymptomatic cCMV
How could children with asymptomatic cCMV be affected through adolescence?