FPN || Child & Adolescent Medicine

What causes ‘weight fate,’ and is it really inevitable?

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 21:00

WASHINGTON – Young children who are overweight are four times more likely to become obese as they age. Is this a sign that we are fated from youth to be a burden on the health care system, or are...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

TNFR1 shown as marker for mortality risk in type 2 diabetes with kidney disease

Posted on: 20/03/2014 - 21:05

Tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 is an effective marker for all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes with kidney disease, according to results of a French study. Additionally, TNFR1 was found to add...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

Antibiotics may contribute to high pediatric C. difficile infection rate

Posted on: 12/03/2014 - 14:05

Nearly three-quarters of Clostridium difficile infections in children and teens were community associated, with the highest incidence among 1-year-olds, according to a study published March 3...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Hospital physician orders increased postpartum Tdap vaccination rates

Posted on: 10/03/2014 - 18:35

Changing in-hospital ordering procedures for postpartum Tdap vaccination considerably increased vaccination rates in birth mothers, investigators reported in the March issue of the American Journal...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Hospital physician orders increased postpartum Tdap vaccination rates

Posted on: 10/03/2014 - 18:35

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Foods can still trigger eosinophilic esophagitis after allergy outgrown

Posted on: 03/03/2014 - 15:45

SAN DIEGO – Seventeen of 425 children who had eosinophilic esophagitis caused by a specific food developed the condition after outgrowing the allergy to that food, a retrospective study...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Campus meningitis outbreaks tamed but can our approach last?

Posted on: 28/02/2014 - 16:45

The incidence of all meningococcal serotypes is in decline, except for the spike in serogroup B on college campuses. "Although we do not expect an increase in MenB outbreaks on college...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Curb vaccine-preventable diseases in diabetes patients

Posted on: 25/02/2014 - 14:10

SAN FRANCISCO – Patients with diabetes have an increased incidence for a number of infections, but vaccine-preventable diseases need not be among them. "In the risk/benefit category, there’s a...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

Statin in childhood reduces CHD risk in familial hypercholesterolemia

Posted on: 10/12/2013 - 20:25

DALLAS – Roughly 10 years after going on statin therapy as children or adolescents, a group of Dutch patients with familial hypercholesterolemia already has a significantly lower cardiovascular event...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Energy drinks amp up heart contractility

Posted on: 03/12/2013 - 18:25

CHICAGO – Consumption of an energy drink containing caffeine and taurine slightly, but significantly, altered left ventricular contractility in healthy volunteers, while consuming the same amount of...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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