Historically, most children in the United States who needed to be hospitalized were treated at general hospitals treating both children and adults. But the number of hospitals providing inpatient care for children has decreased ...
Oct 30, 2023
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A retrospective analysis of pediatric sepsis deaths at a large hospital in Arkansas found that Black children in the hospital were 2.5 times more likely to die of sepsis than white patients, according to research presented ...
Oct 20, 2023
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For children and adolescents, the 2022 to 2023 influenza season had high severity, according to research published in the Oct. 13 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ...
Oct 16, 2023
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Black children may have more severe asthma episodes than their white counterparts but are less likely to be transported to the hospital by emergency medical services (EMS), according to a new study published in the journal ...
Sep 26, 2023
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Among hospitalized children with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) who survive to discharge, the presence or development of a chronic medical condition, tracheostomy placement during the admission, and hospitalization ...
Sep 14, 2023
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Ask Danielle Palmieri when her newborn son contracted RSV, and she doesn't give a season or even a month. She knows the exact day.
Sep 7, 2023
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A large international team of medical researchers has found that the severity of COVID-19 infections in children over the course of the pandemic varied by age and viral variant. In their study, reported in the journal JAMA ...
America's emergency rooms are being flooded by children suffering from psychiatric emergencies like anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts or attempts, a new joint report from three leading medical associations warns.
Aug 16, 2023
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Parents now have a new long-acting drug to protect their children against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a common germ that hospitalizes as many as 3% of children under the age of 1 in the United States each year.
Jul 18, 2023
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Pediatric Early Warning Systems (PEWS) are quality improvement tools to help identify clinical deterioration in hospitalized children. Investigators from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, together with partners across ...
Jul 10, 2023
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