Pediatrics

Children's hospital starts outpatient clinic

RALEIGH - The N.C. Children's Hospital has opened an outpatient clinic. N.C. Children's Specialty Clinic is an extension of N.C. Children's Hospital's pediatric clinic at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. The clinic is at 4414 Lake...

Smiths Medical Announces New Partnership With Great Ormond Street Hospital And University College...

Smiths Medical announces a new five-year research partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), the Institute of Child Health (ICH) and University College London (UCL). The partnership will provide sponsorship for the...

Rotavirus Vaccine Dramatically Reduces Hospital Visits For Rotavirus Gastroenteritis

New results presented at the ICAAC/IDSA* congress in Washington show that the pentavalent oral rotavirus vaccine RotaTeq®â€ reduced hospitalisations and accident and emergency (A&E) department visits related to rotavirus...

Pepperoni for pediatrics

Cumberland Times-News 10-year-olds Shyanne Riley, Madison Lark and Madison Pfaff make pepperoni rolls Tuesday morning at the Fort Ashby Community Building. Members of the Goalseekers 4-H Club made the rolls as a fundraiser,...

INC Research Welcomes Renee Simar, PhD, to the Pediatric Research Team

INC Research (R), Inc., a therapeutically-focused contract research organization (CRO) with a process for delivering reliable results, today announced the addition of Dr. Renee Simar as the company´.. - Read more

Concern over rise in mental retardation cases

PERINTHALMANNA: Participants in a medical camp held here on Thursday voiced concern over the increasing incidence of mental retardation (MR) among children in Malappuram district. The camp was on mental retardation and...

Paediatrics wing of KGH lacks facilities

VISAKHAPATNAM: The facilities available at the paediatrics wing of the 80-year-old King George Hospital here are woefully inadequate. The department itself was established some 50 years ago. There has always been heavy rush at...

Eleanor and Miles Shore 50th Anniversary Fellowship Program for Scholars in Medicine

The Eleanor and Miles Shore 50th Anniversary Fellowship Program for Scholars in Medicine has announced the selection of more than 90 junior faculty members, researchers, and clinicians as fellows for the 2008-09 academic year....

Increlex(R) Phase IIIb Study Results Demonstrating Dose-Dependent Height Velocity Increase In...

Tercica, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ipsen (Euronext: IPN) today announced Phase IIIb clinical trial results demonstrating that Increlex® (mecasermin (rDNA origin) injection) achieved statistically significant...

Health care in a bucket with fries

It's time to draw a line on hospitals prostituting themselves, especially where pediatrics are concerned ANDRE PICARD From Thursday's Globe and Mail At McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton, Ont., a ward was re-named The...