Survey

This month we would like to know...

Would you ever recommend to parents that their child undergo bariatric surgery in order to lose weight?

Yes

No

Would depend on the age of the child

March's Web poll results…

Now that studies are suggesting that vaccinating young men against HPV can help prevent some cancers in men and women, and the FDA has approved Gardasil for boys and young men to prevent genital warts, are you now recommending to parents that they get their sons vaccinated?

Yes: 59%
No: 11%
I'll wait until Gardasil is on the CDC's schedule of recommended vaccines for males: 30%

Digital Edition

Pediatric providers rarely demonstrate proper use of asthma devices

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Nearly one-third of children
with early hearing loss pass
newborn hearing screening

Universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) as presently implemented misses almost one-third of newborns who have delayed onset of sensorineural hearing loss. Read full article.

Topiramate receives FDA warning
for risk of oral birth defects

Health care professionals should consider the increased risk of cleft lip and cleft palate in fetuses caused by the antiepileptic drug topiramate before prescribing the seizure medication to women during pregnancy, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Read full article.

IBD increasing in children, diagnosis often delayed

The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) among children is increasing, but diagnosis often is delayed because symptoms can develop gradually, according to researchers from the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Read full article.

Delay in antibiotic initiation adversely affects children with bacterial CAP

In children with bacterial community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), delay in initiation of appropriate antibiotics is independently associated with adverse outcomes, according to a retrospective study reported in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. Read full article.

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