Pediatrics
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FDA expands Promacta approval to include pediatric patients
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Pneumococcal vaccination rates increase with intervention
A pediatric rheumatology clinic substantially increased the pneumococcal vaccination rates of their high-risk patients through a targeted,...
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Evidence of a respiratory virus does not exclude Kawasaki disease
Many children with Kawasaki disease (KD) have respiratory viruses and a positive viral PCR should not exclude a KD diagnosis.
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Health care transition practices continue to evolve
It’s been nearly 13 years since the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of...
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Eltrombopag yields 40% response rate in pediatric immune thrombocytopenia
Key clinical point: Eltrombopag markedly outperformed placebo and had no new safety signals in children and adolescents with chronic immune...
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Study describes possible antibiotics-JIA link
In a case-control study that compared children who had newly diagnosed JIA with controls matched by age and gender, antibiotic exposure was...
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HLA-matched sibling transplants provide best outcomes in infantile osteopetrosis
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VIDEO: JIA study details impact of biologics on adverse events
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Promacta approved for pediatric treatment of chronic ITP
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EULAR: Serious adverse events rise with number of biologics used in JIA
Key clinical point: JIA patients who had used more than one biologic while on methotrexate had nearly twice the rate of adverse events as did...