Infectious Diseases in Children Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Diseases in Children.
Table of Contents
- Revision of CPT codes
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- A 9-year-old boy with septic arthritis and osteomyelitis of the foot
- AAP issues 2011 immunization schedules
- Addressing adolescent sexuality
- Adjunct corticosteroids beneficial for some children with community-acquired pneumonia
- Adopting healthy habits in youth yields better cholesterol levels in early adulthood
- Bullying: What a pediatrician should know
- CDC recommends Tdap for adolescents
- Healing 360º: dealing with skin issues
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- HHS updates antiretroviral guidelines
- Improved listening, understanding may help ease encounters with difficult patients, parents
- Pediatricians making news
- Wakefield study linking MMR vaccine, autism uncovered as complete fraud
- On my mind
- CDC: Immunization information systems and EHRs must be partners
- FDA approves topical lice treatment spinosad for patients aged 4 years and older
- IDSA releases guidelines for MRSA
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- NIH offers new research opportunity
- Antibiotics benefit infants and young children with certain diagnosis of AOM
- Asthma affected children born in US more than foreign-born children
- Children often exposed to imaging procedures using radiation
- Clinicians continue to overprescribe antibiotics for sinusitis
- Communication between physicians, CAM practitioners important to parents
- Cow’s milk-based formula led to higher weight gain in babies
- Decreases in diarrhea-associated hospitalizations after rotavirus vaccine sustained, but smaller
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- Echinacea no better than placebo at decreasing cold severity, length
- Encourage parent participation in HPV vaccination discussion
- Further data needed into BPD treatments and associated mortality
- Health officials note increase in febrile seizures after flu vaccine
- More study needed on humidifiers for colds
- New clinical predictor indentified infants at high risk for RSV LRTI
- Number of C. difficile cases increasing among hospitalized children
- Pediatric primary care interventions reduced media exposure, increased parent-child interactions
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- Rotavirus vaccines helped reduce hospitalization-related illness
- Self-reported sexual history unreliable for predicting STD status
- Shorter time between pregnancies linked with increased autism risk
- Young females show increased noise-induced threshold shifts
- CAM in pediatrics: Use and potential dangers
- 20-month-old male presents with acute onset of emesis