Alan Kabat, OD, and Canaan Montgomery, OD, speak to inconsistencies in conjunctivitis treatment protocols between pediatric practices and the influence of parents and school districts on treatment options.
An 11-year-old girl presents with a 6-month history of abdominal pain and nausea upon awakening most days, but no pain at night. Can you make the diagnosis?
Participants were evaluated by multiple sleep scale instruments and underwent polysomnography and multiple sleep latency tests following a 1-week actigraphy sleep assessment.
This age group is now eligible to receive the booster dose at least 2 months after they complete primary vaccination with 3 doses of the monovalent vaccine.
Over time, women with PCOS may develop serious health conditions related to their disease including weight gain, difficulty losing weight, anxiety and depression related to weight, insulin resistance, sleep apnea, and cardiometabolic conditions.
To reduce the incidence of child physical abuse, clinicians are urged to take the time to screen for signs of abuse at every encounter with a child and their family.
Parental vaccine hesitancy inhibits clinicians from increasing the pediatric COVID-19 vaccination rate at a clinic in Texas, necessitating an NP-led quality improvement initiative.
In an ancillary analysis, researchers examined changes in self-reported migraine day frequency among adolescents who completed the full 24-week CHAMP trial.