Practice Management News

A 5-day-old female is transferred from another hospital due to irritability and a worsening pustular rash. The mother’s pregnancy, labor and delivery was complicated by a group B strep-positive culture and vaginal candidiasis.

President Biden’s administration has had a sharp focus on competition issues in health care mergers and acquisitions.

In a new clinical report, the AAP recommended against low- and very low-carbohydrate diets for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, “except under close diabetes care team supervision utilizing safety guidelines.”

Infants who demonstrate microbiome dysregulation may be at a higher risk for juvenile idiopathic arthritis, according to data published in eBioMedicine.

High rates of physician suicide are a devastating reality that require multiple solutions, according to experts.

Craniosynostosis — the premature joining of bones in an infant’s skull — may be caused by an abnormal excess of a previously unknown type of bone-forming stem cell, according to findings from a preclinical study reported in Nature.

The economic burden of youth violence in the United States reached $122 billion in 2020, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

A program using cognitive behavioral and mindfulness meditation techniques demonstrated early potential to ease fatigue, depression and pain symptoms in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus, according to researchers.

There is no gold standard outcome to guide care for unrecognized clinical deterioration outside the ICU among hospitalized children despite the high risk for morbidity and mortality these patients face, experts noted recently in Pediatrics.

An umbrella review published in The BMJ provided a breakdown of the associations between cannabis and health outcomes, highlighting the uncertain potential for clinical use.