Viewpoints

Teen Surgery and Persistent Opioid Use Should we be more cautious about prescribing perioperative opioids to teens and young adults?
Experts And Viewpoints, April 2018
Do Higher Childhood Blood Lead Levels Predict Criminal Behavior? A study controls for the effects of socioeconomic status to tease out the link between lead exposure and later criminality.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 2018
Should Parents Be the Ones to Introduce Teens to Alcohol? Should parents introduce their adolescent children to alcohol, in the hope of averting negative alcohol-related outcomes?
Experts And Viewpoints, April 2018
Kids' Fracture Risk With Inhaled Steroids A study examines the problem of fractures in children whose asthma is managed with inhaled steroids.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 2018
Asthma Exacerbation in Kids: A Trial of Two Steroids Finally, a randomized trial of two oral steroid strategies in the management of acute pediatric asthma exacerbation.
Experts And Viewpoints, February 2018
Human Milk in a Bottle: Are the Benefits Just as Good? Does expressed human milk fed by bottle have the same protective effect as direct breastfeeding?
Experts And Viewpoints, January 2018
Managing Pain of Musculoskeletal Injuries in Kids A trial of three analgesics in the emergency department had disappointing results.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 2018
Surgery for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy in Children? It's Worth It Dr William Basco comments on one of the first trials to compare surgery with medical treatment in children with drug-resistant epilepsy.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 2018
Prenatal Caffeine and ADHD: Is There a Link? Does the level of prenatal caffeine intake correlate with an ADHD profile in offspring?
Experts And Viewpoints, January 2018
5 Best of 2017: Pediatrics Viewpoints Dr William Basco ends the year by reviewing the most widely read and commented-upon pediatric Viewpoint columns on Medscape in 2017.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 2017
Blood Cultures in Children Hospitalized With CAP? Dr William Basco comments on a recent multicenter study looking at true rates of bacteremia in children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 2017
Screen and Intervene: Congenital Hearing Loss Do universal hearing screening and early intervention improve language outcomes in children with bilateral hearing loss?
Experts And Viewpoints, December 2017
Early Probiotics to Prevent Eczema or Asthma? No Luck So Far A promising strategy doesn't pan out, but is this the final word on probiotics to prevent childhood atopic disease?
Experts And Viewpoints, December 2017
Predicting Treatment Failure in Kids With AOM From the 'news you can use' department, new evidence suggests which children with AOM will benefit most from antibiotics and which are good candidates for 'watchful waiting.'
Experts And Viewpoints, November 2017
Acute Otitis Media in Young Children Today A recent epidemiologic study paints a picture of early childhood AOM in the pneumococcal vaccine era.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 2017
Does Rushing Kids to the OR Prevent Complicated Appendicitis? A large study seeks to answer the question: Does time to appendectomy influence the development of complicated appendicitis? Dr William Basco comments.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 2017
When 'Allergic to Penicillin' Isn't True in Children A study seeks to determine how many low-risk children thought to have penicillin allergy are truly penicillin allergic.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 2017
Music Therapy and Autism Spectrum Disorder Does improvisational music therapy offer long-term benefit in terms of social affect in children with ASD?
Experts And Viewpoints, October 2017
High-Dose Vitamin D and URIs in Kids A study compared high-dose and standard-dose vitamin D in the prevention of viral URIs in children.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 2017
Why No LAIV Again This Year? In children, the live attenuated influenza vaccine had a paltry effectiveness rate compared with other flu vaccines.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 2017

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