pediatrics

The Mount Sinai Health System today announced that Lisa M. Satlin, MD, the Herbert H. Lehman Professor of Pediatrics and Chair of the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Pediatrician-in-Chief of Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, has been named the 2026 recipient of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN) Founders' Awar…

ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the correlation between trace element concentrations, 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels, and the severity of tic disorders (TD) in children from the Hubei region. Additionally, it seeks to explore the interrelationships among these monitored indicators to provide a reference for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of pediatric TD.MethodsA retrospective …

Kent schoolgirl tracks down 10,000 namesakes as part of campaign – but non-Kirstys are welcome to donate too Calling all Kirstys! A schoolgirl from Tunbridge Wells in Kent is seeking people who share her name to help raise money for research into paediatric brain tumours like the one for which she is being treated. Kirsty Waugh, who turns 12 on Monday, has already persuaded more than 10,000 Kirst…

BackgroundValproic acid (VPA) is widely used in pediatric epilepsy, but its blood concentrations vary considerably among pediatric patients with epilepsy. This study aimed to investigate the factors influencing VPA blood concentrations in this population.MethodsThis study included patients with epilepsy aged 0–18 years who were treated with VPA. Clinical data collected included age, gender, daily…

In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There’s no reaction. His face does not change.  Six weeks later, after a single injection of an experimental gene therapy, the same toddler is back in the same room. The tone plays. The toddler’s head turns toward the sound. And somewhere […]

The increasing use of telehealth in autism care has created opportunities to improve caregiver satisfaction as it remains a critical challenge in pediatric specialty settings. The purpose of this integrative review was to identify strategies that healthcare administrators can implement to improve caregiver satisfaction with telehealth platforms and optimize care delivery for autism patients. Usin…

Type 1 diabetes (T1D), a chronic, autoimmune disease, challenges individuals and families to maintain constant blood glucose regulation. South Carolina, primarily a rural state, faces disproportionate challenges in managing T1D. Despite extensive research on T1D and rural healthcare challenges, a knowledge gap remains regarding how these challenges affect South Carolina families and the resources…

This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) evidence-based staff education project aimed to improve the quality and consistency of discharge medication education for adolescents prescribed antidepressants. Adolescents are at increased risk for antidepressant-related adverse effects, including suicidal ideation, particularly during the early stages of treatment. The identified practice problem was the l…

Type 1 diabetes (T1D), a chronic, autoimmune disease, challenges individuals and families to maintain constant blood glucose regulation. South Carolina, primarily a rural state, faces disproportionate challenges in managing T1D. Despite extensive research on T1D and rural healthcare challenges, a knowledge gap remains regarding how these challenges affect South Carolina families and the resources…

A new study reveals that ingestions of water beads by young children have surged in recent years. Researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Central Ohio Poison Center analyzed calls to U.S. poison centers and found an alarming 6,532% increase in the rate of reported water bead ingestions among childr…

To save a baby with a rare lung disorder, doctors performed a surgery while he remained half-in and half-out of the womb.

Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) today announced the appointment of Eric M. Morrow, MD, PhD, as the founding director of the Lurie Autism Institute.

Post-traumatic confusional state (PTCS) is a disabling sequel of pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI), with little guidance on pharmacologic management when aggression and poor impulse control dominate and adherence is poor. We describe a 9-year-old boy with severe TBI who evolved from coma to a prolonged PTCS characterized by agitation, externalizing behaviors, and dysexecutive symptoms. Multi…

A decades-old drug once used to treat sleeping sickness is now showing surprising promise against an ultra-rare and life-threatening genetic disorder called Bachmann-Bupp syndrome (BABS). Early patient treatments suggest the drug, DFMO, may ease severe symptoms by targeting the underlying genetic malfunction. Researchers have already treated a handful of patients with encouraging results, but pro…

In one of the first and largest studies of its kind, researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have identified a way to predict when babies with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) will come off respiratory support.

For girls who have just reached menarche, the window for meaningful height intervention is short, but predicting how much growth remains has long been imprecise. A new study offers a more accurate way to estimate final height by combining traditional bone age assessment with quantitative image features from the knee and key clinical measures.

Advances in pediatric heart care are helping more children survive long enough to receive a transplant-but a critical shortage of donor hearts means too many are still dying while they wait, experts warned today at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 46th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions.

A major study, led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Nemours Children's Health, and Children's National Hospital and involving an extensive network of medical centers across the United States and abroad, found that different types of crystalloid fluid resuscitation were equally effective for staving off the most serious adverse kidney events after the treatment of pediatric p…

BackgroundCombination sedation regimens are widely used in pediatric procedural sedation. However, the efficacy and incidence of post-discharge adverse events between intranasal dexmedetomidine combined with oral chloral hydrate and intranasal dexmedetomidine combined with oral midazolam remain unclear.MethodsThis was a single-center, prospective, randomized controlled trial. A total of 180 child…

UCLA Health researchers are seeking to develop a new wearable technology to catch one of the earliest but often overlooked signs of autism and other developmental conditions in infants.