Pediatrics News and Research

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First evidence that dendritic cells show unprecedented sensitivity to thimerosal

A team of cell biologists, toxicologists and molecular bioscientists at UC Davis has published a study connecting thimerosal with disruptions in antigen-presenting cells known as dendritic cells obtained from mice.

22 Mar 2006

Sanofi-aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb agree to settle patent dispute with Apotex

Sanofi-aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb have announced that they have reached an agreement subject to certain conditions with Apotex to settle the patent infringement lawsuit pending between the parties in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

21 Mar 2006

A newly recognized type of immune cell may play an important role in causing asthma

...perhaps explaining why current therapies sometimes fail, report researchers from Children's Hospital Boston in the New England Journal of Medicine.

21 Mar 2006

Rapamycin (sirolimus) may be effective in treating kidney disease

A widely available drug may be effective in treating kidney disease, report scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They describe the discovery in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.

21 Mar 2006

No-smoking rules not common enough for asthmatic children

Urban children with persistent asthma living in homes with smokers are 10 times less likely to be protected by a smoking ban in the home and car than asthmatic children living with no smokers, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

20 Mar 2006

Religion and spiritual characteristics related to depression among young physicians

Despite recent restrictions placed on work hours for resident physicians, the prevalence of significant depressive symptoms among those new physicians has not decreased.

20 Mar 2006

Study to Rituximab's potential to preserve insulin production in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetics

A drug used to treat lymphoma, rheumatoid arthritis and other immune disorders may enable newly-diagnosed type 1 diabetics to save some of their pancreas function and thereby reduce their susceptibility to long-term complications.

20 Mar 2006

Association between alcohol-branded merchandise and initiation of alcohol use in teens

Young adolescents who own t-shirts, hats and other merchandise with an alcohol brand name on it are more likely to begin drinking than kids who do not own these items

20 Mar 2006

Tobacco giants gain $4.1 billion from Hollywood films with smoking

The 390,000 new teen smokers recruited each year by U.S. movies are worth $4.1 billion in lifetime sales revenue to the tobacco industry, UCSF researchers report in the April 2006 issue of Pediatrics.

17 Mar 2006

New agreement on Chinese malaria vaccine candidate

In a move that promises to expand the clinical testing of another promising malaria vaccine candidate, the US-based PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) and the Chinese company Shanghai Wanxing Bio-Pharmaceuticals today announced an agreement that supports the development of a pediatric malaria vaccine against Plasmodium (P.) falciparum, the most deadly strain of malaria.

15 Mar 2006

Wearing a special mask to bed helps children with sleep apnea breathe and sleep better

Wearing a special mask to bed helps children with sleep apnea breathe and sleep better, but a small, six-month study at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and two other pediatric hospitals suggests children aren't always using them consistently enough to reap the maximum benefits.

15 Mar 2006

Emergency departments score poorly in child-saving drills

A mock-drill study conducted in a third of North Carolina's hospital emergency departments (EDs) revealed that nearly all failed to properly stabilize seriously injured children during trauma simulations, according to a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Duke University Medical Center.

13 Mar 2006

Transplanting a pair of kidneys with limited function into one patient may offer one solution to short supply of donated kidneys

Transplanting a pair of kidneys with limited function into one patient can be just as successful as the standard procedure in which a patient receives a single kidney, according to new research at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

13 Mar 2006

Insulin levels in African American children worsen as they progress through puberty

...while those same levels don't change in their Caucasian counterparts, says new University of Alberta research that shows puberty is a key developmental period affecting diabetes risk.

13 Mar 2006

Trial explores safety and efficacy of injecting human stem cells directly into the brain to treat fatal pediatric neurodegenerative disorder

Researchers in Doernbecher Children's Hospital at Oregon Health & Science University will begin a Phase I clinical trial using stem cells in infants and children with a rare neurodegenerative disorder that affects infants and children.

13 Mar 2006

Reports of doctor shortages are wrong

Recent news reports that threaten a shortage of doctors to treat the burgeoning elderly population are wrong, according to researchers at Dartmouth Medical School's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS).

9 Mar 2006

Maternal depressive symptoms at 2 to 4 months post partum and early parenting practices

When mothers experience symptoms of depression after the birth of their children they are less likely to breastfeed, play with, read to or perform other interactive parenting tasks with their newborns

9 Mar 2006

Effects of prenatal exposure to pesticides

Children in Ecuador whose mothers were exposed to pesticides while pregnant had increased blood pressure and diminished ability to copy geometric figures as compared to a control group, according to an epidemiological study in the March issue of Pediatrics.

9 Mar 2006

Child's fatness at age five is not related to being breastfed

Does breastfeeding or the age at which other foods are introduced to infants affect the risk of obesity in early childhood? Research on this question has produced mixed results

9 Mar 2006

Depression and anxiety during childhood linked to higher BMI into adulthood for women but not men

The increasing prevalence of obesity among children and adults is becoming a public health crisis, according to background information in the article.

9 Mar 2006

Pediatrics News and Research

Latest Pediatrics News and Research

First evidence that dendritic cells show unprecedented sensitivity to thimerosal

Sanofi-aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb agree to settle patent dispute with Apotex

A newly recognized type of immune cell may play an important role in causing asthma

Rapamycin (sirolimus) may be effective in treating kidney disease

No-smoking rules not common enough for asthmatic children

Religion and spiritual characteristics related to depression among young physicians

Study to Rituximab's potential to preserve insulin production in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetics

Association between alcohol-branded merchandise and initiation of alcohol use in teens

Tobacco giants gain $4.1 billion from Hollywood films with smoking

New agreement on Chinese malaria vaccine candidate

Wearing a special mask to bed helps children with sleep apnea breathe and sleep better

Emergency departments score poorly in child-saving drills

Transplanting a pair of kidneys with limited function into one patient may offer one solution to short supply of donated kidneys

Insulin levels in African American children worsen as they progress through puberty

Trial explores safety and efficacy of injecting human stem cells directly into the brain to treat fatal pediatric neurodegenerative disorder

Reports of doctor shortages are wrong

Maternal depressive symptoms at 2 to 4 months post partum and early parenting practices

Effects of prenatal exposure to pesticides

Child's fatness at age five is not related to being breastfed

Depression and anxiety during childhood linked to higher BMI into adulthood for women but not men

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