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Thrombolytic drugs appear to be as safe for children with acute ischemic stroke as they are for adults, based on an analysis of more than 9,000 patients in the Kids’ Inpatient Database. Overall, 4% of the children in the database who got the clot-busting drugs had a brain hemorrhage, which was not... »
Flu Still a Killer for Neurologically Impaired Young People
A new report illustrates just how deadly influenza can be among children and young adults with neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders. In a single Ohio residential facility last year, flu killed half of the patients in this population who developed a serious case. The case study points up... »
Comorbid ADHD Affects Cognition in Epileptic Children
BALTIMORE – Comorbid attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder persistently affected the cognitive development of children with epilepsy up to 5 or 6 years after the onset of seizures in a prospective case-control study. In a previous study of the same group of children, Connie Sung and her... »
BALTIMORE – The risk for children with febrile seizures to develop epilepsy decreased with time in an analysis of the prospective U.K. National General Practice Study of Epilepsy. Short-term studies have shown that 1%-3% of... »
Thrombolytic drugs appear to be as safe for children with acute ischemic stroke as they are for adults, based on an analysis of more than 9,000 patients in the Kids’ Inpatient Database. Overall, 4% of the children in the... »
Extremes of SGA, LGA Linked With Autism Risk
DALLAS – The risk of autism is significantly increased in both very small and very large for gestational age infants, compared with average for gestational age infants, according to findings from a large retrospective... »
Infection Correlated With Stroke Risk in Children
NEW ORLEANS – There may be a correlation between infection and stroke in children, according to research presented at the International Stroke Conference. Acute infection is considered to be a risk factor for stroke in... »
BALTIMORE – Nearly one-third of older teens with autism spectrum disorders and comorbid epilepsy also had a brain wave pattern associated with seizure-related light sensitivity. The interictal EEGs of these teenagers showed... »
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| Mar 2 - 8 Miami, FL | Miami Children's Hospital: Annual Pediatric Postgraduate Course "Perspectives in Pediatrics" |
| Mar 5 - 9 Sarasota, FL | Pediatric Infectious Diseases: An Evidence-Based Approach |
| Mar 8 - 10 Vancouver, | Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA): Biennial Meeting |
| Mar 12 - 16 Sarasota, FL | Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Detection, Diagnosis and Developing Treatment Plans |
| Mar 21 New York, NY | New York University (NYU): Pediatric Rheumatology |
| Mar 23 - 24 Cambridge, MA | Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM): Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics |
| Mar 23 - 25 San Diego, CA | Children's Hospital and Health Center: Advances in the Practice of Pediatrics |
| Mar 26 - 28 Baltimore, MD | Johns Hopkins University (JHU): Spectrum of Developmental Disabilities |
| Mar 30 - Apr 1 Philadelphia, PA | Eastern Society for Pediatric Research (ESPR): Annual Meeting |
| Apr 2 - 6 Sarsota, FL | Pediatric Emergency Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach |