January 16, 2025

New XLH Guidelines Shift Primary Therapy to Burosumab

"Burosumab treatment normalized ALP serum levels in about 80% of both pediatric and adolescent cohorts, suggesting a substantial improvement of rickets in these patients," report authors of comprehensive new evidence-based recommendations for X-linked hypophosphatemia management.

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

October 29, 2024

New Data Challenges Pediatric Sinusitis Treatment Guidelines

A JAMA review revealed that only 26% of pediatric ABRS patients treated with placebo required subsequent antibiotic therapy, prompting questions about current guidelines recommending first-line antibiotic use in children with sinusitis.

Conexiant

April 21, 2023

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

Benevis Spotlights Diversity in Dentistry

Inside Dentistry

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

May 31, 2023

A Free-Spirited Childhood on a Dairy Farm, Where Books and Science Experiments Were Encouraged

Dr. Susan K. Parsons, a distinguished Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, reflects on her journey from a dairy farm in Upstate New York to her impactful work in survivorship care for cancer patients and cancer care delivery research.

The ASCO Post

September 01, 2023

CLINICAL: Contact Lenses

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Optometric Management