Infectious Diseases in Children Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Diseases in Children.
Table of Contents
- Hospitalizations, deaths keep declining after rotavirus vaccine introduction
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- On my mind, part II
- ACIP updates pertussis vaccination recommendations
- Age at onset of puberty predicts adult osteoporosis risk
- Avoiding allergy-related illness during spring break travel takes preparation
- CDC survey shows half of office-based physicians using EMRs
- Collaboration needed to quell dengue spread
- Enterovirus infection linked to type 1 diabetes
- FDA advisory committee recommends keeping strains similar in next year’s flu vaccine
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- Less sleep linked to childhood obesity
- Outpatient CAP rates remain stable, despite vaccination
- Panel releases clinical practice guideline for tonsillectomy in children
- Peer groups influence spread of H1N1
- Potential for CHDs in newborns may be elevated if mother treated for fever, influenza
- Rotavirus vaccines well tolerated by infants with HIV
- Sleep studies may assist in predicting respiratory complications after tonsil surgery
- Spring break offers chance to counsel adolescents on sex, drugs, binge drinking
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- Supreme Court upholds Vaccine Court
- US Marshals seize Auralgan otic solution
- HHS: 2 million children added to insurance programs
- HHS unveils new national vaccine plan
- Task force updates vision screening recommendations
- AAP issues 2011 immunization schedules
- ACIP updates the General Recommendations on Immunization
- Changes in influenza’s genome pairs may predict evolution of flu virus
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- Children with chronic illness more likely to be physically abused
- Clustering tool helps identify youth at risk for vascular disease, CVD
- Exercise improved executive function in overweight children
- Free emergency birth control linked to rise in teen STI rates
- Genetic mental ability suppressed by socioeconomic disadvantage
- Guideline aims to streamline simple febrile seizure analysis
- Home IV antibiotics cost-effective measure for managing children with cancer, febrile neutropenia
- Infants who are exposed to HIV at birth but not infected may have lower antibodies to other diseases
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- Inhaled nitric oxide for preemies: Little to no benefit on death, BPD
- Look at AOM as a spectrum of infection
- Pediatricians urged to ask patients about energy drink use
- Program reduced gossip in schools
- Routine childhood vaccines may reduce leukemia risk
- Step-down treatment viable option for some asthma patients
- VFC influenza vaccine delivery delayed compared with privately purchased vaccine
- Athletes should seek early diagnosis and treatment for skin infections
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- Consider testing children with atopic dermatitis for food allergy
- Plants can cause mild to severe skin reactions, dermatologist warns
- Research promising for epidermolysis bullous
- Time is right to address sun exposure, risky sexual behavior with adolescents
- Medication products to pack for spring break travel
- A teenage boy with smelly feet
- A 9-year-old male with swollen lymph node and lesion near his eye