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Corticosteroids help prevent hearing loss, neurologic sequelae in paediatric bacterial meningitis
Children with bacterial meningitis appear to fare well with corticosteroids, which lead to a lower incidence of hearing loss and neurologic sequelae and faster resolution of fever, according to a meta-analysis.
Anthropometric measurements at birth do not affect response to obesity treatment
While neonatal anthropometric measures are related to the degree of obesity in childhood, it does not seem to affect response to multidisciplinary treatment to childhood obesity, a recent study has found.
Shorter antibiotic regimen enough in kids with pneumonia?
Children with non-severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) may benefit from a 5-day antibiotic regimen compared with the current standard regimen of 10 days, according to results of the US-based SCOUT-CAP trial.
Ecthyma gangrenosum in children with cancer requires early detection, treatment
In children with cancer, early diagnosis and proper and timely treatment of ecthyma gangrenosum (EG) are necessary to achieve recovery and to prevent larger necrotic lesions, which eventually evolve in scarring sequelae, suggests a study.
Schizophrenia genetics not linked to neuropsychiatric features in childhood-onset SLE
No apparent association exists between neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (NPSLE) and known risk loci for schizophrenia in a multiethnic cohort of patients with childhood-onset (c)SLE, reveals a recent study.
Ambulatory hypertension prevalent in children with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease
Children with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) are at greater odds of ambulatory hypertension even as the control of this condition improves over time, a study has shown.
