Keyword: pediatric
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The health of future generations is at stakeThe summer heat wave blazing across the U.S. is set to endanger millions of infants and childrenopens in a new tab or window, who are physiologically more vulnerable than adults to its impact. Unfortunately for American families, access to pediatric care is quickly evaporating from the healthcare landscape. A variety of factors are exacerbating this problem, ranging from decreasing interest in pediatrics as a specialty to the closure of pediatric hospitals across the country. But no matter the cause, the picture is bleak. The Landscape of Pediatric Care Pediatric hospitals have been disappearing...
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The New Hampshire House of Representatives has passed a bill that prohibits some transgender surgeries on minors, though the measure falls short of the initial intent of the measure that sought to ban all so-called “gender reassignment” procedures for children.Twelve Democrats joined nearly all Republicans to pass House Bill 619 by a vote of 199-175 on Jan. 5, in a move that came amid a series of other transgender-related bills that the House voted on earlier in the day.The bill that passed was a watered-down version of the original proposal, which, if passed as introduced, would have banned giving puberty...
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New research pinpoints a key cause of metastasis from an aggressive form of brain cancer in children and provides a potential new therapy for treating these tumors. Physician-scientists discovered that medulloblastomas hijack a skill that normal brain cells use during their early development and then manipulate it to help tumors spread. "Children with medulloblastomas that have not yet metastasized may have a high likelihood of long-term survival, but if those tumors have spread, the survival rate is significantly reduced," said Baoli. "Longstanding challenges that we face in the field include understanding how tumors are able to spread and how we...
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More than 40 percent of pregnant women who participated in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID vaccine trial suffered miscarriages, according internal Pfizer documents, recently released under court order. Despite this, Pfizer, and the Biden administration insisted that the vaccines were safe for pregnant women. Out of 50 pregnant women, 22 of them lost their babies, according to an analysis of the documents. In a January court ruling, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman of the Northern District of Texas, ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to release around 12,000 documents immediately, and then 55,000 pages a month until all documents were released,...
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Dr. Kelly Ann Machovec It is with profound sadness that we inform you of the passing of a beloved member of the Duke Anesthesiology family and an esteemed pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist, Kelly Ann Machovec, MD, MPH. She passed away on March 30 at the age of 43. She will be remembered as an exceptional academician and physician who dedicated her career to improving the lives of children undergoing cardiothoracic or vascular surgery, and for her special impact that was palpable to her colleagues and patients throughout the Duke Children's Heart Center. Dr. Machovec was originally from Baltimore, Maryland. She received...
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Doctors tell One America News they are being threatened and silenced for raising questions about the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines. One America’s Pearson Sharp sat down with Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric heart specialist, who explains the vaccine represents a greater danger to our children’s health than COVID itself. https://www.oann.com/doctor-warns-covid-vaccines-are-dangerous-for-children/
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For the first time, a child who had no other health issues has died from COVID-19 at a Houston hospital, the city health department reported Thursday. There have been six other pediatric deaths in Houston, but all of those children had underlying health conditions. “Serious chronic medical problems, the things they’ve unfortunately been going to medical doctors regularly for most of their life. That’s what most of those have been," Chief Medical Officer for the City of Houston Dr. David Persse said. The Houston Health Department said the boy who died in July was between the ages of 10 and...
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The number of children who have died from the swine flu has jumped sharply as the virus continues to spread widely around the United States, striking youngsters, teenagers, young adults and pregnant women unusually often, federal officials said Friday. The deaths of another 19 children and teenagers from the new H1N1 virus were reported in the past week around the country, including two in Maryland, pushing the total number of fatalities to 76 among those younger than age 18. It was the largest number of pediatric deaths reported in a single week since the pandemic began last spring. "These pediatric...
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KIRKUK, Iraq, April 24, 2007 — Doing more with less is how Capt. Christopher Curtis, the surgeon for 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, described the doctors at the pediatric hospital in Kirkuk. Now, thanks to the efforts of Curtis and his team, the doctors will have more to work with when it comes to medication and supplies. "It is obvious by looking around that the hospital is short on supplies and equipment." -- Dr. Samir Yousef, a senior pediatrician Curtis, in coordination with A Company, 3-25th Brigade Support Battalion, delivered a large quantity of medical supplies to the...
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