The following is a summary of "Clinical Course of Very Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease," published in the May 2023 issue of Pediatrics by Cucinotta, et al. For a study, researchers sought to describe the clinical features, outcomes, and...

The following is a summary of "Clinical Course of Very Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease," published in the May 2023 issue of Pediatrics by Cucinotta, et al. For a study, researchers sought to describe the clinical features, outcomes, and...
Randomized controlled trials of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections often omit patients with obesity, who are at high risk for such infections. “We, as a society, expect FDA-approved medications to be safe and effective in people receiving treatment...
Emerging evidence supports an association between light at night (LAN) exposure with obesity or overweight in adults. However, effects of LAN exposure during childhood have yet to be further investigated.In this study, we aimed to determine whether LAN exposure is...
Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are widely recorded in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and ASD with GI symptoms is a vital subtype of this disease. Growing evidence suggests altered gut microbiota biomarkers in ASD, but little is known about the gut microbiota of...
To identify neonatal characteristics and 2-year neurodevelopmental outcomes associated with positive screening for risk of autism.Nine university-affiliated neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) enrolled infants born at <30 weeks of gestation. Infants underwent...
Growing up on traditional European, and U.S. Amish, dairy farms, in close contact with cows and hay, protects children against asthma, and airway administration of extracts from dust collected from cowsheds of those farms prevents allergic asthma in mice.This study...
Randomized controlled trials of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections often omit patients with obesity, who are at high risk for such infections. “We, as a society, expect FDA-approved medications to be safe and effective in people receiving treatment...
Emerging evidence supports an association between light at night (LAN) exposure with obesity or overweight in adults. However, effects of LAN exposure during childhood have yet to be further investigated.In this study, we aimed to determine whether LAN exposure is...
Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are widely recorded in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and ASD with GI symptoms is a vital subtype of this disease. Growing evidence suggests altered gut microbiota biomarkers in ASD, but little is known about the gut microbiota of...
To identify neonatal characteristics and 2-year neurodevelopmental outcomes associated with positive screening for risk of autism.Nine university-affiliated neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) enrolled infants born at <30 weeks of gestation. Infants underwent...
Growing up on traditional European, and U.S. Amish, dairy farms, in close contact with cows and hay, protects children against asthma, and airway administration of extracts from dust collected from cowsheds of those farms prevents allergic asthma in mice.This study...
While neuropathic pain may be difficult to diagnose, peripheral nerve surgeons now have many effective surgical options for treating nerve pain at its source. Seeing patients in the office who are suffering from chronic pain with no obvious anatomical cause can be...
This is one of a collection of stories that are like “Final Destination” meets “The Monkey’s Paw” (W. W. Jacobs, 1902). As such, they are tragedies more than either mysteries or horror, and would appeal most to readers who enjoy the inexorable pull of a story arc...
Are healthcare professionals entitled to feel as badly as family members when a patient dies? As I sat with a family who decided to terminally extubate their critically ill child, I couldn’t be overwhelmed by the sadness because it wasn’t about me. As I watched the...
Continuous kidney replacement therapy (CKRT) is used in the pediatric ICU (PICU) to support critically ill children who have acute kidney injury (AKI), fluid overload, and metabolic derangements.
Disparities in pay based on gender are, unfortunately, a persistent problem in our country for all sectors, including healthcare. Women physicians have been up against the gender pay gap for decades, yet they continue to rally for equal pay. Cardiologist Yasmine S....
A Las Vegas news crew captured footage of a for-profit hospital, Valley Hospital Medical Center, refusing to treat an elderly patient who couldn’t afford payment—a process Las Vegas elected officials dubbed as “patient dumping.” Rather than assist this woman...
Cyberattacks worldwide are increasing at an alarming rate. According to cybersecurity company Check Point, the third quarter of 2022 saw a mean of beyond 1,130 global weekly attacks per business. Certain sectors, however, are more prone to data breaches. The...
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