January 21, 2019 General information Vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccination beliefs listed by WHO as a global threat to public health
January 14, 2019 General information Sleep studies point to advancing morning school start time by an hour to synchronize with changes in the adolescent’s circadian rhythm.
December 27, 2018 Health Policy With ever-present childhood infectious diseases comes great responsibility to act. Let’s not follow Europe’s example.
December 18, 2018 Addiction Survey suggests that teens are turning to vaping more so than other drugs
December 12, 2018 Clinical Research Preliminary data on screen time and changes in adolescent brain development is just that: preliminary data. I will wait for the study’s completion and its publishing date
November 28, 2018 Bariatric Medicine The relationship between a child’s weight and the risk of developing asthma reviewed in this study but causality is unclear.
November 22, 2018 Food Science Two studies in the NEJM conclude that probiotic use to mitigate symptoms of acute gastroenteritis in children did not ameliorate symptoms and was no better than placebo.
November 19, 2018 Allergy/Immunology Oral treatment to reduce anaphylactic reaction to peanuts shown to be effective in recent randomized trial
November 15, 2018 Health Policy Another (wrong) assumption that all there is to diagnosing strep throat can be reduced to doing a rapid strep test. Pharmacists should not be doing these tests. My conversation with Bill provides the details why.