Latest Pediatrics Stories
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vaccination Scheduler, a new iPhone app, is helping parents protect their children by sending them reminders for when their children's vaccinations are due. By vaccinating according to the recommended schedule parents greatly reduce the chance of their children becoming infected. Whooping cough is on track to become the most severe preventable epidemic in over a half century with 18 deaths and around 41,000 cases reported by The Center of...
Sound Shore Medical Center is one of eight hospitals in Westchester County partnering in the Safe Sleeping Initiative to enhance baby safe sleeping through educating parents and caregivers on best practices. New Rochelle, NY (PRWEB) January 19, 2013 Sound Shore Medical Center is pleased to be one of eight hospitals in Westchester County joining forces with the District Attorney’s Office in launching Westchester County’s Safe Sleeping Initiative – a community partnership whose goal...
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has named Paula Agosto, RN, MHA, to the position of Senior Vice President & Chief Nursing Officer. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130117/DC43628) As the senior vice president and chief nursing officer, Agosto is responsible for advancing nursing and respiratory practice and leading nursing research while supporting Children's Hospital's commitment to exceptional patient...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that dosing has begun in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trial of KB001-A, the company's anti-PcrV Humaneered®, PEGylated monoclonal antibody fragment. The study will investigate the safety and efficacy of intravenously administered KB001-A as a treatment for chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) infection in cystic fibrosis patients. The Phase 2...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online It was just about 14 years ago that a study published in the prestigious English medical journal The Lancet unleashed a firestorm of paranoia that swept new and expecting parents. At the time, it appeared to researcher Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues that there was a connection between the child immunization program for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) and the diagnosis of autism. Wakefield’s contention was that the MMR...
NES-ZIONA, Israel, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PROLOR Biotech, Inc. (NYSE MKT: PBTH) today announced that it received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a patent application covering the company's CTP platform, which has the potential to extend the duration of activity of therapeutic proteins. The allowed claims cover manufacturing methods for CTP-modified compositions of a wide array of classes of therapeutic proteins, including hormones, high...
WARRINGTON, Pa., Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Discovery Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSCO), a specialty biotechnology company dedicated to advancing a new standard in respiratory critical care, today announced changes to its board of directors and appointed a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The following changes are effective immediately: W. Thomas Amick, age 70, has resigned as Chairman of the board of directors and CEO. Mr. Amick served on the board since March 2004, was...
WARRINGTON, Pa., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Discovery Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSCO), a specialty biotechnology company dedicated to advancing a new standard in respiratory critical care, today announced it has initiated the launch of its AFECTAIR(®) airway connector for infants receiving aerosolized medication in neonatal or pediatric intensive care units (NICU and PICU, respectively). The AFECTAIR device simplifies the delivery of aerosolized medication to critical care...
ANAHEIM, Calif., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOR) announced today that executive management is scheduled to present at the 31st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, California, on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET. A live webcast with accompanying slide presentation, and subsequent archived replay of the presentation will be accessible at http://ir.questcor.com/events.cfm. The replay will be...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers from Temple University recently completed a study that found that it is more beneficial for mothers to let their infants cry themselves back to sleep rather than comforting them in the middle of the night. According to the researchers, pediatricians report that waking up in the middle of the night is a common concern for parents of infants. The study, recently published in Developmental Psychology, showed that infants...
Latest Pediatrics Reference Libraries
In 1861 Adam Politzer of Vienna spent much time studying the air movement in the Eustachian tubes and the ear canal. He would measure the air movement by attaching a manometer, a very large gauge, to the ear canal and the pharynx. He developed an apparatus known as the Politzer bag in 1863 which is a less invasive way to clear the Eustachian tubes. Procedure Politzerization, also known as the Politzer maneuver, is a medical procedure which inserts air in the middle ear while the patient...
Rotavirus is the most common cause of diarrhea among infants and young children and is one of several viruses that cause the stomach flu. It is in the family Reoviridae and is a genus of double-stranded RNA. Most children have been infected by the age of five. Each infection builds on previous immunity and thus subsequent infections are less severe and adults are rarely affected. The fives species of the virus are referred to as A, B, C, D, and E. Type A, which is the most common, causes more...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes respiratory tract infections and is a major cause of lower respiratory tract infection and hospital visits during infancy and childhood. For premature infants and infants with congenital heart disease there is a prophylactic medication. During winter months in temperate climates there is an annual epidemic. Infection in tropical climates is most common during the rainy season. 60% of infants, in the United States, are infected during their first...
The B19 virus, referred to as parvovirus B19, was first known human virus in the family of parvovirus. It causes a childhood rash called fifth disease or commonly called slapped cheek syndrome. Discovered in 1975 by Yvonne Cossart, the virus gained its name because it was found in well B19 of a large series of Petri dishes. The virus is mainly spread through infected respiratory droplets. Symptoms usually appear six days after exposure and last about a week. Patients aren't usually...
Norovirus is an RNA virus that causes approximately 90% of epidemic non-bacterial outbreaks of gastroenteritis around the world. It may also be responsible for 50% of all foodborne outbreaks of gastroenteritis in the U.S. It can affect people of all ages and is transmitted by food or water that is contaminated, by person-to-person contact, and through aerosolization of the virus and subsequent contamination of surfaces. Immunity is usually incomplete and temporary after infection. People...
