The expanded EUA of the COVID-19 vaccine “will be the biggest positive change for adolescents since the beginning of the lockdown in March 2020.” — Mary Koslap-Petraco, DNP, PPCNP-BC, CPNP, FAANP
Adolescent patients with bipolar disorder are at a uniquely vulnerable period in their lives, which presents challenges in treatment. What are some of their experiences and risks that medical professionals should be looking out for and communicating to parents?
High-risk children living in urban neighborhoods in the United States develop specific phenotypes of respiratory health vs disease, which may link environmental exposures in early life to childhood allergic sensitization and asthma.
The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health asked a national sample of parents about the emotional impact pandemic restrictions have had on their teens aged 13 to 18.
The approval was based on data from 3 clinical studies that assessed the antihypertensive effect of valsartan in 290 children 1 to less than 6 years of age.
These 2 randomized, partly-masked studies aimed to address the emergence and spread of circulating vaccine-derived type 2 polioviruses and vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis from Sabin monovalent OPV2.
Andrea Kline-Tilford, PhD, CPNP-AC/PC, FCCM, discusses nursing innovations during the COVID-19 pandemic, advances in vaccines for children, and whether in-school or virtual school is better for children.
Exposure to wildfire-specific airborne fine particles with diameter ≤2.5 µm (PM2.5) is more harmful for children’s respiratory health than exposure to PM2.5 from other sources.
The approval was based on data from an extensive development program that included four phase 3 studies involving more than 1000 patients 6 to 17 years of age.
Investigators analyzed the agreement among pH paper, hand-held pH meters, and laboratory pH meters for gastric pH measurements in tube-fed children with neurological impairments and GERD.
Clinicians, including pediatric NPs, are in the perfect position to screen children for signs of abuse or neglect related to substance use disorders in families.
