Large multiyear, multihospital retrospective database analysis demonstrates RDS treatment with Curosurf (poractant alfa) Intratracheal Suspension provides significantly improved neonatal survival.
A new joint study by UCLA and the Rand Corp. shows that more than half of children with an HIV-infected parent are not consistently in that parent?s custody.
Prior to their diagnoses of melanoma, Meghan Rothschild and Lexi Lewis were two of the estimated 2 to 3 million teens that use indoor tanning beds. In spite of repeated health warnings issued in the media about the risks of indoor tanning, neither was prepared to find out that she had melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Johns Hopkins Nursing Spring 2007 explores the wide variety of complementary and alternative nursing and medical therapies used by Hopkins nurses and outlines how the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is ?building opportunities? for its faculty, students, and staff.
The growing premature birth rate in the United States appears to be strongly associated with increased use of pesticides and nitrates, according to work conducted by Paul Winchester, M.D., professor of clinical pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Some high blood pressure medicines may help protect older adults from declines in memory and other cognitive function, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, reported today at the annual meeting of the American Geriatrics Society in Seattle.
It?s only natural to for adults to worry about children?s health and well-being at school, on the roads and even online. But adults? No. 1 health concern for children and adolescents in the United States? It?s smoking, according to new results from the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children?s Hospital National Poll on Children?s Health. Drug abuse ranked No. 2.
Fathers may be more important than mothers in determining whether a child becomes overweight or obese, according to a ground-breaking new Australian study by the Centre for Community Child Health at The Royal Children?s Hospital, Melbourne, and the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.
Researchers at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) have identified a piece of the DNA sequence that boosts a person’s susceptibility to heart disease by up to 40 per cent regardless of other established risks such as cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes. The discovery could help identify people at high future risk for heart disease, enabling early preventive therapies, including lifestyle changes and medication to reduce their risk. This finding may also lead to a better understanding of the biological pathways that lead to heart attacks.
Complications from a 2002 car accident left Hurlburt, a borderline diabetic, with recurring cellulitis and staph infections. One of those infections developed into a troublesome open sore that, despite the use of oral antibiotics, continued to fester for nearly eight months.