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A quality improvement (QI) project consisting of a standardized management workflow with stringent discharge criteria for paediatric abdominal pain admissions at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Singapore has resulted in reduced length of stay (LOS), number of unnecessary investigations, and variability in investigations ordered, without causing misdiagnosis, reports a study.

Couples infected with SARS-CoV-2 while receiving assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment had lower quality embryo and blastocyst rates compared with uninfected couples in a  multicentre cohort study.

Children whose mothers experienced violence during pregnancy are at higher risk of developing overweight from birth to middle childhood, suggests a recent study, underscoring intergenerational transmission of social adversity in children's health.

New drug applications approved by US FDA as of 16-31 July 2023 which includes New Molecular Entities (NMEs) and new biologics. It does not include Tentative Approvals. Supplemental approvals may have occurred since the original approval date.

Exposure to traffic-related air pollution may put pregnant women at risk of delivering preterm and the babies at risk of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admissions and low birthweight, among others, as reported in a study.

A survey of 851 parents in Hong Kong finds that awareness and acceptance of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for children are lower among parents of boys vs girls, and that main reasons for vaccine hesitancy are concerns about vaccine side effects and the belief that their child is too young to be vaccinated against HPV.

Treatment with oral valacyclovir appears to reduce the rates of vertical transmission of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, with a low frequency of side effects, as shown in a study.

Specialty training appears to improve the ability of community-based primary care clinicians to make accurate diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in most cases, as reported in a study.