Sickle cell patients should be better monitored for constipation prevention
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 09:20
in Health & Medicine
Not all patients with sickle cell disease receive laxatives after being treated with narcotics, despite recommendations from a collaborative panel of paediatric experts. These are the findings from a Nationwide Children's Hospital study examining patients from 29 paediatric hospitals, and appearing in Pediatric Blood and Cancer...