Pediatrics News

• Risks, Benefits of IV Belimumab in Children With SLE Consistent With Adults Intravenous belimumab 10 mg/kg every 4 weeks was safe and effective in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus in a phase 2 placebo-controlled trial.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2020
• Family Wellbeing Similar With Parents or Grandparents Heading Household Grandparents raising children seem to cope as well with parenting duties as parents, even though they're more likely to care for kids with more developmental and behavioral problems, a US study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2020
• Coronavirus, Other Respiratory Viruses Can Cause Severe Bronchiolitis Coinfections with endemic coronaviruses and other respiratory viruses can cause severe bronchiolitis, according to new findings.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2020
• US Surpasses 160,000 Coronavirus Deaths as School Openings Near More than 160,000 people have died from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, according to a Reuters tally, as the country debates whether schools are ready to reopen in coming weeks.
  Reuters Health Information, August 07, 2020
• Only 42% Would Get Vaccinated Against COVID 'If and when a coronavirus vaccine becomes available, will you get vaccinated?'
  WebMD Health News, August 07, 2020
• Weight Gain Persists as HIV-Treatment Issue Reports have rattled the HIV-treatment community by associating alarmingly high levels of weight gain with a useful and relatively new drug, tenofovir alafenamide fumarate.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Dermatology Atlas Will Profile Disease in All Skin Types From the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, multiple nonviral pandemics have rapidly emerged, 'most notably the persistent and well-masked racism that maintains disparities in all facets of life.'
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Pediatric EDs Using CT Less Often; Ultrasounds, MRIs on the Rise Use of advanced imaging in pediatric emergency departments increased from 2009-2018 in the US, despite a drop in CT, according to new findings.
  Reuters Health Information, August 05, 2020
• Severe COVID-19 in Kids Rare With Variable Symptoms and Generally Good Outcomes Critical pediatric COVID-19 disease is a rare entity with heterogeneous clinical presentation and generally good outcomes compared with adults, according to preliminary data from the CAKE study.
  Reuters Health Information, August 05, 2020
• Children Rapidly Deported From the United States Strain Guatemalan Shelters Hundreds of migrant children rapidly expelled from the United States under a coronavirus immigration policy are returning to shelters in Guatemala.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2020
• US Lifts Global Health Coronavirus Travel Advisory The US State Department on Thursday lifted a global 'Do Not Travel' advisory from March and instead issued individual high-level warnings for about 30 countries.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2020
• Government Health Experts Warn US Cities of 'Trouble Ahead' White House health experts are warning of an uptick in the percentage of people testing positive for COVID-19 in US cities including Boston, Chicago and Washington.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2020
• Experimental Nonstimulant Effective, Fast-Acting for ADHD Once-daily viloxazine reduced symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder as soon as 1 week after dosing and was well tolerated in a pivotal phase 3 study.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Consider Trichoscopy for Suspected Hair Disorders 'It is helpful for diagnosing all sorts of alopecia, starting with those that appear at birth, such as aplasia cutis congenita to those that appear in adolescence, such as androgenetic alopecia.'
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• AAD 2020New Topicals for Excessive Sweating Are in Sight 'What's surprising is that more than 50% of patients do not receive appropriate treatment, very likely due to lack of awareness or embarrassment,' explained one dermatologist at the AAD annual meeting.
  Medscape Medical News, August 06, 2020
• Facebook, Twitter, YouTube Pull Trump Posts Over Coronavirus Misinformation Facebook on Wednesday took down a post by US President Donald Trump, which the company said violated its rules against sharing misinformation about the coronavirus.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2020
• COVID-19 Update: Conspiracy Theories, Cutaneous Clues These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, August 05, 2020
• More Than Half of Doctors Now Part of Healthcare Systems Study finds big jump in hospital employment from 2016 to 2018; what will happen as a result of the pandemic remains to be seen.
  Medscape Medical News, August 05, 2020
• Virus Testing in the US Is Dropping, Even as Deaths Mount An AP analysis found that the number of tests per day decreased 3.6% over the past 2 weeks to a total nationwide of 750,000. Long wait times to get tested and learn of results are blamed for the drop.
  Associated Press, August 05, 2020
• What to Do About Interference Between Maternal Pertussis Vaccination, Infant's DTwP Shot Health providers should pay extra attention to infants with signs of pertussis given the potential interaction between maternal vaccination and the baby's responses to DTwP vaccination, according to a new opinion piece in Pediatrics.
  Reuters Health Information, August 04, 2020