Sentences with phrase «in pediatric disease»

In this study, we used the Dads Active Disease Support scale (DADS), a measure of the amount and helpfulness of paternal involvement in pediatric disease management, to explore the association between father involvement and other aspects of family functioning.

Previous research has shown the adverse health effects associated with suboptimal breastfeeding cost the United States $ 14.2 billion annually (2011 dollars) in pediatric disease, including the costs of 911 child deaths.4

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«Firearm - related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among U.S. children aged 1 to 17 years, surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and / or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes,» wrote the CDC in its report.

Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist turned hedge fund manager who is also a former Facebook executive, has built up some credibility since his first appearance last year at the conference, which benefits pediatric disease research: Amazon stock is up some 34 % in the meantime.

At the hearing, Dr. David Kimberlin, who specializes in pediatric infectious disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, spoke of a situation in September, around the time Daraprim's price went up after Turing bought the rights to the drug, in which he found barriers to getting the drug because the monthly cost for four tablets suddenly spiked to $ 3,000 from $ 54.

Cookies for Kids» Cancer was founded by two OXOnians (OXO employees) who were inspired by their son Liam's battle with pediatric cancer, a disease which claims the lives of more children in the US than any other disease.

We provide pediatric inpatient and outpatient services in every medical and surgical specialty — from general pediatric services to the care of the most complex cancers, heart diseases and traumas.

Our pediatric nephrologists specialize in the treatment of this complex disease and do our best to provide care for children with nephrotic syndrome in the outpatient clinic.

The experienced team of clinicians in the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy at Tufts Medical Center's Floating Hospital for is highly trained in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric asthma, allergies, cystic fibrosis, chronic lung diseases related to premature birth and a wide variety of related conditions in babies, children and adolescents.

Led by Scott Schoeder, MD, our team of experienced clinicians is highly trained in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric asthma, allergies, cystic fibrosis, chronic lung diseases related to premature birth and the complete range of related conditions.

The reality is not «gentle proteins», cute pink hearts or «probiotics just like those in breastmilk» but dirty contaminated bottles, diarrhea, babies screaming with pain from otitis media, babies separated from their mothers in pediatric wards with acute respiratory disease, damaged guts that morph into chronic lifelong conditions such as Crohn's disease, more women dying of breast cancer, the cost and pain of living a life with diabetes and lives cut short because of cardiac disease and so on.

Find the expertise your child needs from top pediatric neurologists at Floating Hospital in Boston, offering quality care for diseases of the nervous system.

At Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, you'll know the peace of mind that comes as a result of an exceptional team of pediatric oncologists and hematologists who treat these complex diseases.

Cookies for Kids» Cancer was founded by two OXOnians (OXO employees) who were inspired by their son Liam's battle with pediatric cancer, a disease which claims the lives of more children in the US than any other disease.

After completing his internship in Pediatrics at Hopkins, he continued his training in Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, specializing in neonatology and pediatric liver disease.

None of the above, says pediatric infectious disease specialist Sunil Sood, of Hofstra North Shore - LIJ School of Medicine in Hempstead, N.Y. «It's all overkill,» he says.

With the help of Ralph Lachman, MD, a professor of radiology at Stanford and an expert in a type of pediatric bone disease, Nolan set the record straight.

Arlene Dent, an assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, says there was a time when she actively sought female role models.

After Harvard, Nadeau worked as a resident specializing in pediatric blood diseases and cancer at Children's Hospital of Boston.

Using data from the Pediatric Health Information System database, a large, regionally diverse system, the researchers examined racial disparities in the treatment and outcomes of hospitalized white and black pediatric patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease.

«It is crucial for every child to be followed up annually until the age of 21 by a pediatrician — as is done in the United States — to detect hereditary disorders and pediatric diseases as early as possible.

A team led by Ron Dagan, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Soroka University Medical Center in Beer - Sheva, Israel, wanted to know if a new pneumococcal vaccine based on tetanus toxoid would change infants» immune responses to the standard regimen of vaccines, including those for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP), and Haemophilus influenzae type B, which protects against meningitis.

«It is crucial for every child to be followed up annually until the age of 21 by a pediatrician — as is done in the United States — to detect hereditary disorders and pediatric diseases as early as possible,» notes Igarashi.

The finding shows that «carrier overload is not just a theoretical concern,» says Sheldon Kaplan, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

However, to safeguard the well - being of future generations, it is crucial to tackle genetic conditions and diseases in the pediatric population.

«Diagnostic testing combined with clinical expertise is helpful in identifying a cluster of infections that may signal an outbreak,» said Andi L. Shane, MD, MPH, MSc, lead author of the guidelines and associate professor of pediatric infectious diseases, Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

Using multiple statistical approaches to study a long - term pediatric cohort in Nicaragua, we show that risk of severe dengue disease is highest within a narrow range of preexisting anti-DENV antibody titers.

«A dominant protein like that is like a loud person in a room,» says study coauthor Betsy Herold, a pediatric infectious disease doctor.

«Instead of taking a wait - and - see approach by treating disease later in adulthood, we should help children maintain the standards of ideal cardiovascular health that most children are born with,» said Julia Steinberger, M.D., M.S., lead author of the new statement, professor in pediatrics and director of pediatric cardiology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

For example, researchers found that reducing the dose of anthracyclines will lower the rate, but not the severity of cardiovascular disease in pediatric and young adult Hodgkin lymphoma survivors.

When Aune Hirvasniemi, a pediatric neurologist at the local hospital, began to track the disease in the late 1980s, she found 19 patients in a handful of families.

Researchers studying two generations of a family affected by pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have identified an inherited variation in the ETV6 gene that is associated with an increased risk of developing the disease.

«It's important for us to understand differences in disease risk, symptoms, and responses to treatments between sexes,» says senior author Carey N. Lumeng, M.D., Ph.D, associate professor in pediatrics and physiology at the Medical School and a pediatric pulmonologist at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

As a new generation of gene therapy clinical trials shows promise to cure or halt the progression of several rare diseases, the time has come to explore ways to pay for the cutting edge treatments, a pediatric hematologist - oncologist from Dana - Farber / Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center argues in a commentary published by the journal Science.

«Already, we know that probiotics and dietary modifications have the potential to play powerful roles in preventing urinary diseases that commonly occur among pediatric patients,» Dr. Hsieh says.

Neuregulin 1 is already being tested in adults to boost recovery from heart failure, but it hasn't been tried in infants with heart disease, says study coauthor Bernhard Kühn, a pediatric cardiologist at the University of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Her current duties as a research assistant to pediatric rheumatologist James Jarvis include finding possible genetic and / or environmental causation to the severity of rheumatic diseases in Native American communities.

In a mouse model of late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL), a pediatric neurological disease, the researchers described retinal degenerative changes that mimic the characteristic pathology of age - related macular degeneration (AMD).

«With 3D printing, surgeons can make better decisions before they go into the operating room,» said Matthew Bramlet, M.D., study lead author and assistant professor of pediatric cardiology and director of the Congenital Heart Disease MRI Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria.

My recent post on rare diseases and pediatric pain clearly resonated with a number of people, prompting my immersion in the medical literature and speaking with some experts and patients about these topics and about the difficulties patients with atypical symptoms -LSB-...]

«This condition is one of the main reasons that many bone marrow transplant patients endure long hospital stays after their diseases are cured,» said Kean, who wears a bracelet around her badge from a pediatric patient cured of leukemia one year ago, but is still in the hospital due to complications from GVHD.

Since pediatric critical care was recognized as a specialty area of medicine in the 1980s - 1990s, survival and disease recovery rates for acutely ill children have improved significantly.

Adults often suffer complications as a result of diabetes, smoking - related respiratory problems or coronary disease — comorbidities a surgeon wouldn't often see in a pediatric patient.

The position paper, «Radiation Safety in Children with Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease: A Scientific Position Statement on Multimodality Dose Optimization from the Image Gently Alliance,» provides cardiologists, radiologists, pediatricians and internal medicine physicians guidance for treating pediatric patients with congenital and acquired heart disease Disease: A Scientific Position Statement on Multimodality Dose Optimization from the Image Gently Alliance,» provides cardiologists, radiologists, pediatricians and internal medicine physicians guidance for treating pediatric patients with congenital and acquired heart disease disease (CAHD).

«US pediatric hospitals vary greatly in costs, practices for children with asthma: Matching patients by disease severity and other characteristics may offer clues to improving hospital practice.»

Douglas Postels, a pediatric neurologist in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, is challenging a widely held African belief that a spinal tap, a procedure safely used to treat other diseases, could suck the brain from the base of the skull and cause death in malaria patients.

There Salaeha managed committees and interest groups related to school health and infectious diseases, orchestrated state - wide educational programming, and recruited and trained pediatricians and allied healthcare providers to engage in policy initiatives related to pediatric health.

Our response to societal pressures about vaccination has a direct effect on the spread of pediatric infectious diseases in areas where inoculation is not mandatory, says new research published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

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As nutritional failure plays a role in the outcomes of many of pediatric lung diseases, I am also interested in how the GI microbiota impact early growth and nutrition.