... in adults of industrialised countries is approximately 10% and is showing a tendency to rise. Data for paediatric patients is scarce. A research article published on 14 March 2008 in the World ...
Results of a recent survey of 13 paediatric hospitals in North America show a lack of universally applied standards for administering radiopharmaceutical doses to children undergoing nuclear medicine ...
... has found that using chemotherapy alone and delaying or avoiding cranial radiation altogether can be effective in treating paediatric patients with unresectable or progressive low-grade glioma...
... Clay Walker's non-profit charity, Band Against MS (BAMS), donated $100,000 to the National Paediatric MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Centre at Stony Brook University Medical Centre. On November 21 at Stony ...
In addition to its strong associations with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, paediatric obesity may induce alterations in thyroid function and structure, according to a new study ...
... of an aggressive liver cancer in children. The research, published by Cell Press in the December issue of the journal Cancer Cell, may lead to better treatments for paediatric liver cancers...
A standard paediatric vaccine used to prevent several common types of life-threatening infections also effectively reduced the rates of another disease, pneumococcal meningitis, in children and adults ...
... of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery shows that there was nationwide increase in the prevalence of paediatric methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) head and neck infections from ...
... (tube current flow) according to a patient's body shape may help reduce radiation doses in paediatric patients during CT, according to a study performed at the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital in ...
Approximately 30 percent U.S. children live more than one hour away from a paediatric trauma centre by ground or by air transportation, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of ...
Why are some paediatric cancers able to spontaneously regress? Prof. Michael Fainzilber and his team of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry Department seem to have unexpectedly found part of ...
... unveiled results today from the largest-ever collaborative study addressing the treatment of a rare paediatric brain tumour. The findings suggest a new standard protocol could improve survival nearly ...
Paediatricians and paediatric oncologists express differing views on religion and spirituality, largely based on the types of patients they treat, according to a survey that will appear in the current ...
Texas Children's Hospital is the nation's first paediatric hospital to discharge a child while on an intracorporeal ventricular assist device (VAD), a feat previously accomplished only at adult ...
Chest ultrasound can serve as a viable alternative to chest CT in the evaluation of paediatric patients with complicated pneumonia and parapneumonic effusion (a build-up of fluid between the lung and ...
