Pediatrics
Your child is sick. Do you call your doctor or head to the ER?
It's a common dilemma when your child seems sick: Do you call the doctor, make a trip to urgent care or head straight to the emergency room?
Nov 23, 2022
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News tagged with severe burns
Health
Ask the pediatrician: How can parents protect kids from coin batteries?
Q: My toddler often puts small objects in her mouth. How can I keep her safe with all the button batteries in our house?
Nov 9, 2022
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Pediatrics
Ask the pediatrician: How should parents childproof their home?
Q: Our daughter is crawling and exploring, and we are hurrying to childproof our house. What are some areas that we might overlook?
Oct 3, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Advancing care for burn patients
New research finds that glutamine, previously thought to help with burn injuries, does not improve patients' time to discharge from hospital.
Sep 27, 2022
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Medical economics
Implementing personalized medicine in hospitals
Imagine a patient with a rare genetic disorder that makes their arms and legs have imprecise and slow movements. For years, the patient has faced serious restrictions in day-to-day life. They tried several treatments, but ...
Aug 12, 2022
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Medications
Autoimmune drug shows promise in treating severe burns
A severe burn injury is not static. Within 72 hours, partial thickness burns can progress, or convert, to full thickness burns, greatly increasing the risk of infection, incapacitating scarring, and even death.
Jan 13, 2022
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Pediatrics
Medical costs another burden for burn victims from the bush
Living away from community and country, Aboriginal families of children with severe burns also face critical financial stress to cover the associated costs of health care and treatment, a new study shows.
Apr 21, 2021
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Surgery
Gaza girl dons 3D-printed mask to heal burnt face
The moment Maram al-Amawi gets back from school, she slips on the 3D-printed mask that covers her face and treats her severe burns from a blaze at a Gaza bakery.
Mar 6, 2021
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Pediatrics
Making microwaves safer for children
A 15-year research and advocacy effort to make microwave ovens safer has led to a change in national manufacturing standards that will make microwaves more difficult for young children to open, protecting them from the severe ...
Jan 20, 2021
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Medical research
Research delivers new insights into how skin can regenerate after severe burns
People who suffer severe burns or extensive skin injuries are often left to live with extreme scarring, disfigurement, and skin that feels chronically tight and itchy. That's because the body's healing processes have evolved ...
Aug 19, 2020
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