Practice Management News

Primary hypertension is now the leading type of pediatric hypertension, especially in adolescents, raising their subsequent risk for CV events in adulthood, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

Children placed in permanent supportive housing were more likely to attend dental visits than peers in a matched cohort, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

There has been a rebound in cases of tuberculosis in the United States, according to the CDC, with the largest increase occurring among children aged 4 years or younger.

In the United States, students with disabilities are more likely to experience homelessness than peers without disabilities, but insufficient reporting practices make the full scope of the problem unclear, according to researchers.

A study found that pulse oximetry overestimated the blood oxygen levels in Black children more often than in white children, according to results published in in JAMA Pediatrics.

Two phase 3 trials found that lebrikizumab was effective against moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis in adolescents and adults, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Glucocorticoids alone demonstrate similar recovery rates as intravenous immunoglobin, or combination therapy with both, in patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

You are asked to see a 14-year-old girl for recurrent, draining sores in the bilateral groin areas for over a year. She did not want to tell her parents, fearing what they might think, even though she was not sexually active.

As a part of a comprehensive health care compliance program, every medical practice should conduct regular exclusion screening.

Cases of tuberculosis increased in the U.S. in 2022 but did not return to pre-pandemic levels, according to data published in a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ahead of World TB Day.