Congenital hypothyroidism is thyroid hormone deficiency at birth that, if left untreated, can lead to neurocognitive impairments in infants and children. Although the World Health Organization recommends 200-300 µg of ...
Jul 26, 2012
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A new study from Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Central Ohio Poison Center found rates of suicide attempts by self-poisoning among adolescents have more than doubled in the last decade in the U.S., and more than tripled ...
May 1, 2019
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When a newborn suffers lack of oxygen before or during birth, doctors have very little time to save precious brain tissue. The only proven effective way to treat babies with hypoxic brain injuries is by reducing body temperature ...
Feb 20, 2020
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Suicide death rates have increased significantly among adolescents in the U.S. in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But while children are typically screened for scoliosis, body mass ...
Jan 31, 2023
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A team of researchers led by a University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty member found that measures to evaluate readmission rates at children's hospitals would be more accurate if the social factors of the patients ...
May 23, 2017
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Despite several years of research providing the medical and economic evidence that feeding a mother's own milk to very low birth weight infants improves clinical and financial outcomes, multiple barriers to mothers' providing ...
Nov 7, 2016
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Newly published research from a Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington-led study provides the first reliable data of its kind measuring normal patterns of plasma ketones and lactate levels in healthy babies shortly ...
Apr 28, 2021
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A recent study published in the Journal of Pediatrics is the first to examine and identify a link between kidney stones in children and thickened or hardened arteries—precursors to a wide variety of cardiovascular diseases. ...
Sep 21, 2015
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Greater rates of Colorado's children are going to the pediatric emergency department as a result of dog bites during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recently published commentary article in the Journal of Pediatrics. ...
Aug 11, 2020
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A major multi-center investigation of children with cystic fibrosis has identified a test that allows earlier identification of those at risk for cystic fibrosis liver disease.
Feb 12, 2020
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