Pediatrics

Noting national drug shortages often disproportionately affect pediatric patients, the Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group (PPAG) is encouraging the FDA to include child-specific considerations in its policies for preventing and mitigating drug shortages.

Children's medications should now be dispensed in metric units, not teaspoons or tablespoons. Here's how pharmacists can help make the change happen.

Changes to immunization schedules, a review of this season's flu shot, and potential vaccines in the pipeline were broached at the American Pharmacist Association's Annual Meeting and Exposition session on immunizations.

Many children with food allergies develop micronutrient deficiencies.

Shire's ADHD treatment, lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (Vyvanse), is now available in a 10-mg titration dose.

Children born to parents with bipolar disorder have a strong likelihood of experiencing episodes of manic symptoms themselves.

The FDA today approved the first available treatment option for patients with high-risk neuroblastoma.

Reducing elevated blood pressure during pregnancy is safe for the expectant mother and her child.

Flu activity continued to worsen throughout the United States in the final week of 2014.

The FDA has approved Bayer HealthCare's gadobutrol injection for use with magnetic resonance imaging in pediatric patients aged

A research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics uncovered a gap between observed practice and guideline recommendations in medication prescribing for pediatric pharyngitis.

A new study led by researchers from the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at Children's Mercy-Kansas City proves that genomic diagnostic testing can directly impact the care of children and infants with neurologic disorders.

More than 40% of calls placed to US poison control centers concerning energy drinks involve children under age 6, some of whom suffer serious cardiac and neurological symptoms.

The FDA today approved the first vaccine licensed in the United States to prevent invasive serogroup B meningococcal disease in patients aged 10 to 25 years.

Agave nectar and placebo may be more effective in treating a child's cough than "watchful waiting" with no treatment at all.

A perceived increase in confirmed cases of enterovirus D68 may be attributable to a faster lab test recently put in place by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Women who develop gestational diabetes mellitus tend to have daughters who become obese later in childhood.

The rate of type 1 diabetes mellitus among non-Hispanic white youth increased significantly over an 8-year period.

There was a time when drugs were believed to be unable to cross the placenta, as if it were some impenetrable fortress.

As a result of confusing sensations of breathlessness with asthma symptoms, overweight and obese children tend to report poorer asthma control and overuse rescue medications.

Children infected with enterovirus have a 48% increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes.

In the pediatric hospital setting, pharmacists most frequently perform drug therapy changes on the cancer ward.

The FDA is reviewing a Biologics License Application for the first pediatric combination vaccine designed to help protect against 6 diseases.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uncovered clusters of high vaccination exemption at the local level, which leaves communities vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases.

Notable outbreaks over the past 2 decades have qualified enterovirus D68 as an emerging pathogen.

Offering advice on healthy eating and exercise to overweight or obese pregnant women can improve birth outcomes.

The vaccine that prevents illness and death from pneumococcal infection also combats severe antibiotic-resistant disease in young children.

Nearly 700 children across 46 states are now infected with the severe respiratory illness.

Parents who know about the human papillomavirus are not more likely to get their adolescent daughters vaccinated.

The child showed no symptoms of the respiratory virus prior to his death.