Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Since the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended all babies should be placed on their backs to sleep in 1992, deaths from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome have declined dramatically. But sleep-related deaths from other causes, including suffocation, entrapment and asphyxia, have increased. In an updated policy statement and technical report, ...
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
New Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics say that children as young as four can be diagnoses and treated for ADHD. The previous research was more than a decade old and covered children from 6 to 12, but with more research and understanding of the issues surrounding ADHD in ...
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Two decades after Brazil's constitution recognized health as a citizen's right and a duty of the state, the country has vastly expanded health care coverage, improved the population's health, and reduced many health inequalities, but universal and equitable coverage remains elusive, experts from four major Brazilian universities and New York ...
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Sunday, May 8th, 2011
The RX Acculink carotid stent has now been approved for both high risk and standard surgical risk patients by the FDA. It was used only for patients with clogged neck arteries who could not undergo surgery because of a high risk of complications; it is now approved for all patients ...
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now approved use of the varicella-zoster vaccine, Zostavax, among patients ages 50 to 59 for the prevention of herpes zoster, more commonly known as shingles. Until now, use of the vaccine had only been sanctioned for use in people aged 60 or ...
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