December 16, 2024

AAP Unveils Screening Protocol Changes

New guidelines for congenital heart disease screening recommend a single retest and require ≥95% oxygen saturation in both pre- and post-ductal measurements, aiming to simplify detection while maintaining accuracy.

Conexiant

December 02, 2024

2024 Vitamin D Guidelines: A Critical Review

"If the pharmaceutical industry had developed a single drug capable of reducing cancer mortality by 25%, autoimmune disorders by 39%, and COVID-19 infection rates by 74%, it would be heralded as a miracle drug."

Conexiant

November 26, 2024

AAP Releases 2025 Child Vaccination Schedule

The 2025 immunization guidelines marked a shift from quadrivalent to trivalent influenza vaccines, introduced new RSV timing protocols, and revised multiple vaccination schedules, including meningococcal B dosing for ages 16-23 years.

Conexiant

September 04, 2023

Transforming Toast with Tech: Modernizing Ketogenic Therapy

For centuries, dietary manipulation, including fasting, has been used for the treatment of epilepsy. In the early 1920s, physicians at Mayo Clinic discovered that a low carbohydrate diet provided similar effects to fasting and coined the term “ketogenic diet,” which is still in use today. Ketogenic therapy (KT) is a diet with high fat, low carbohydrate and adequate protein intake. The KT program at the Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s is a robust clinical program staffed by experienced dietitians, psychologists, pharmacists and epileptologists

Phoenix Children's Medical Connection

January 25, 2024

George D. Demetri, MD, FASCO, Earns Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine From Stanford Medicine Alumni Association

George D. Demetri, MD, FASCO, Director of the Sarcoma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, was awarded the J.E. Wallace Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine from the Stanford Medicine Al...

The ASCO Post

April 21, 2023

Benevis Spotlights Diversity in Dentistry and Dental Health Disparities this Minority Health Month

Benevis Spotlights Diversity in Dentistry

Inside Dentistry

June 15, 2023

Eisenmenger Syndrome & Pulmonary Hypertension in Congenital Heart Disease

Dr. Alexander Ellis describes the origin of Eisenmenger syndrome and disease specific therapies for congenital heart patients.

Sentara

September 28, 2023

Screening Clinical Trial Points the Way to Treatments Informed by Genomic Sequencing

A screening clinical trial underway at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and other centers across the U.S. will take the next step toward determining the effectiveness of cancer treatments informed by genomic sequencing of the tumor.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

August 25, 2023

New ADA guideline recommends acetaminophen, NSAIDs to manage pain in pediatric patients

The guideline is available in the September issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association.

ADA News