pediatrics

Clinical trial finds short-term increases in inhaled steroids do not provide expected benefit in early stages of an attack Children with mild to moderate asthma do not benefit from a common practice of increasing their inhaled steroids at the first signs of an asthma exacerbation, according to clini...

Alex Huang’s battle to defeat childhood cancers got another boost last week when the St. Baldrick’s Foundation named him among the year’s leading researchers in the field. The volunteer-driven organization, which focuses solely on pediatric and adolescent cancers, awarded 90 grants to scientists at...

New national study suggests communities are growing source of infection The adage that kids are growing up too fast these days has yet another locus of applicability. In a new, first-of-its-kind study, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found a 700-percent surg...