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Guidance offered for managing therapies in children with disability

(HealthDay)—In a clinical report published online March 25 in Pediatrics, guidance is provided for managing therapy services for children with disabilities. Amy Houtrow, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., from the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues offer information about how best to manage the therapeutic needs of children with temporary or permanent disabilities in the medical home. According […]

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Children with atopic dermatitis have worse sleep quality

(HealthDay)—Children with atopic dermatitis (AD) have worse sleep quality, according to a study published online March 4 in JAMA Pediatrics. Faustine D. Ramirez, from the University of California in San Francisco, and colleagues conducted a longitudinal cohort study involving 13,988 children alive at 1 year and followed up with repeated measures of self-reported AD and […]

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Parents of Yemen conjoined twins worry only one will survive

Conjoined twins born sharing the same body but with their own heart, lungs and backbones face fight for survival Twins Abdul-Khaliq and Abdul-Rahim were born conjoined at the neck in January They are in an incubator in intensive care, currently in a ‘stable’ condition Doctors said they need care outside of Yemen, a war-stricken country  […]

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Fractures in children often indicate abuse

Physical abuse in children often remains undetected. Atypical fractures may indicate such abuse. Everything that doctors should be particularly alert to and aware of in this setting is the subject of an article by Oliver Berthold and colleagues in the current issue of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2018, 115: 769-75). Fractures due […]