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Point Identified Around Age 10 When Cardiovascular Health Trajectories Begin to Drop
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MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- There is a key time point between midchildhood and adolescence when cardiovascular health (CVH) trajectories begin to decline, according to a study published online Dec. 18 in JAMA Cardiology.Izzuddin M. Aris, Ph.D., from...
2000 to 2024 Saw Rise in Physician Union Petitions
2000 to 2024 Saw Rise in Physician Union Petitions
MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The number of union petitions with physicians in the bargaining units filed and certified increased in 2023 to May 2024, according to a research letter published online Dec. 18 in the Journal of the American Medical...
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Parents, Clinicians Skeptical of Children’s High Blood Pressure Readings
Parents, Clinicians Skeptical of Children’s High Blood Pressure Readings
MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Both parents of children with hypertension and treating clinicians are aware of the importance of addressing pediatric hypertension but show significant mistrust in clinic blood pressure measurements, according to a study...
Rates of Substance Use Down for Teens in the United States
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MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Substance use among adolescents has continued to hold steady at lowered levels for the fourth year in a row, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Monitoring the Future Survey.The Monitoring the...
Phenotypic Categorization of RSV Disease for Improved Healthcare Strategies
Phenotypic Categorization of RSV Disease for Improved Healthcare Strategies
The following is a summary of “Heterogeneity of Clinical Phenotypes in Severe Acute Respiratory Infections due to Respiratory Syncytial Virus: A Need to Look Beyond Hospitalization,” published in the December 2024 issue of Pediatrics by Horvat et al. In...
Point Identified Around Age 10 When Cardiovascular Health Trajectories Begin to Drop
Point Identified Around Age 10 When Cardiovascular Health Trajectories Begin to Drop
MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- There is a key time point between midchildhood and adolescence when cardiovascular health (CVH) trajectories begin to decline, according to a study published online Dec. 18 in JAMA Cardiology.Izzuddin M. Aris, Ph.D., from...
2000 to 2024 Saw Rise in Physician Union Petitions
2000 to 2024 Saw Rise in Physician Union Petitions
MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The number of union petitions with physicians in the bargaining units filed and certified increased in 2023 to May 2024, according to a research letter published online Dec. 18 in the Journal of the American Medical...
Parents, Clinicians Skeptical of Children’s High Blood Pressure Readings
Parents, Clinicians Skeptical of Children’s High Blood Pressure Readings
MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Both parents of children with hypertension and treating clinicians are aware of the importance of addressing pediatric hypertension but show significant mistrust in clinic blood pressure measurements, according to a study...
Rates of Substance Use Down for Teens in the United States
Rates of Substance Use Down for Teens in the United States
MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Substance use among adolescents has continued to hold steady at lowered levels for the fourth year in a row, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Monitoring the Future Survey.The Monitoring the...
Phenotypic Categorization of RSV Disease for Improved Healthcare Strategies
Phenotypic Categorization of RSV Disease for Improved Healthcare Strategies
The following is a summary of “Heterogeneity of Clinical Phenotypes in Severe Acute Respiratory Infections due to Respiratory Syncytial Virus: A Need to Look Beyond Hospitalization,” published in the December 2024 issue of Pediatrics by Horvat et al. In...
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Silent Night, Icy End
Silent Night, Icy End
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What ICU Chaplains Can & Shouldn’t Do
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A Care Facility Comeuppance
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Risk Factors Linked With Reactions to Peanut OIT in Preschoolers
This courses discusses the several clinically important risk factors that affect the reactions in grade 2 and higher during peanut oral immunotherapy (P-OIT).
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