In order to provide quality pediatric care, children’s hospitals need more government support, Children’s Hospital Association CEO Mark Wietecha argued in a recent letter to Congress. He recommended Congress enact 12-month continuous eligibility for children covered by Medicaid or CHIP, allocate more money to pediatric physician training, and enhance Medicaid's low reimbursement rates for pediatric care.
Clinical trials are three years away for this necrotising enterocolitis treatment.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
We haven’t had a new case – or a new scare – for a few days now, and maybe the election will push Ebola out of the news for a little while. But since the first case was diagnosed, one risk of extreme Ebola worrying is clear. People are so irrationally afraid that they lose […]
For a 10-year-old Ohio girl, Jetta Fosberg, being courageous and selfless was what led to being bullied at school. She decided to donate more than 14 inches of her hair to Wigs for Kids in support of children who have lost their hair following cancer treatments. Post by Stand With Jetta. Heidi Fosberg, Jetta’s mom, […]
I’ve read and re-read Dr. Paul Offit’s WSJ opinion piece, The Anti-Vaccination Epidemic. Dr. Offit is a professor of Pediatrics at a leading hospital in the United States. He is also an author, a scientist, and a vaccine-developer. In short, he is a major physician leader. I’ll come back to that point in just a […]
Most of the time, I think men can’t handle the reality of women’s health. It’s messy, bloody, lumpy, hard to relate to, unpredictable. This is a big reason that women aren’t included in clinical trials in the same numbers as men and women do not receive the same care that men do, particularly women who […]
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
CMS announced the second batch of prospective recipients of its Health Care Innovation Awards, which brings the total amount of funding for the project to about $360 million for health systems that devise new, innovative ways to curb healthcare costs among high-risk patients. Prospective winners are selected based on “compelling new ideas to deliver better […]
Children with “lazy eyes” and other vision disorders could be more accurately diagnosed with technology from Cambridge medical device firm REBIScan, according to a recent study published in JAMA Ophthalmology. REBIScan’s Pediatric Vision Scanner (PVS) device is actually a superior method to test preschool-age children for eye problems, the study found. Indeed, Mayo Clinic ophthalmology professor Jonathan Holmes […]
Although the school nurse is a familiar figure, school-based health care is unfamiliar territory to many medical professionals, operating in a largely separate health care universe from other community-based medical services. Now, as both schools and health care systems seek to ensure that children coping with chronic conditions such as diabetes and asthma get the comprehensive, coordinated […]
Among the many questions brought up by the horrifying killings in Isla Vista, Calif., last month were what could have parents have done to prevent the tragedy, if anything? And what did they actually know about their son’s mental illness? Some parents of adult children with mental illnesses fear that their child will go […]
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was enacted in 1997 to extend health coverage to children in poor families with modest incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid. The Affordable Care Act now offers many of those same families federal subsidies through the health insurance exchanges, calling into question whether the program should be continued […]
No one wants to go to the dentist, but kids need to. A small cavity left to fester can grow into a big health problem. That’s why the government made pediatric dental care one of the health law’s “essential benefits.” But new data suggest the law is failing to fully deliver on its promise: A […]
Entrepreneurs and hospitals are trying everything from portable automatic hand sanitizer dispensers to pop quizzes about hygiene and alarm sounding soap dispensers to get doctors to wash their hands more frequently. This is a priority around the world as well to prevent diarrhea in children. The Rehydration Project reports that a child dies of diarrhea every 26 seconds. Lifebuoy and Geometry […]
By Allyson B. Mullen – On May 1, 2014, FDA issues a final version of the guidance document “Providing Information about Pediatric Uses of Medical Devices” (the “Final Guidance”). The draft of this guidance document was originally issued on February 19, 2013, at the same time FDA issued a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking to […]
Using thousands of baby photos, some off-the-shelf software and the help of his colleagues, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Baylor University is on a personal mission to develop a better way to detect early signs of pediatric eye cancer.