March 28, 2025
TOPLINE: Point-of-care urine dipstick demonstrated higher sensitivity (90.2%) and specificity (92.6%) than laboratory urinalysis for diagnosing urinary tract infection (UTI) in febrile infants aged 2-6 months. […]
March 27, 2025
March 25, 2025 – Girls are twice as likely as boys to be diagnosed with depression, and researchers in London have now uncovered clues as to […]
March 26, 2025
TOPLINE: Compared with no dexamethasone treatment, early administration of dexamethasone in children with pneumococcal meningitis lowered 30-day all-cause mortality by 50%, a new study showed. METHODOLOGY: […]
March 26, 2025
The number of neonatologists in the United States has grown 227% in the last three decades and the number of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) beds […]
March 24, 2025
TOPLINE: Invasive group B Streptococcus disease in early infancy increased the risk for psychiatric disorders through adolescence. Infants with meningitis showed a higher cumulative incidence for […]
March 21, 2025
In the early days of the pandemic, Becca Saul, MSN, ACNP, remembers the alarm she felt as obesity rates among children were climbing. “Everybody’s stuck at […]
March 21, 2025
Point-of-care (POC) testing can significantly increase routine lipid screening of preteen patients, according to findings from a study published in Pediatrics. At the beginning of the […]
March 20, 2025
TOPLINE: An analysis of high school students from 1999 to 2021 showed teens with low-risk behaviors grew from about 40% in 1999 to nearly 60% by […]
March 20, 2025
When pediatric cardiac surgeons evaluate options for their smallest patients with the most severe cardiac birth defects, they don’t have a lot of good choices. For […]