Foregoing antibiotics in pediatric outpatients with suspected pneumonia may be a safe option
1. In children aged 3 months to 18 years discharged from the emergency department (ED) with suspected community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), ...
Tag: diarrhea
Quick Take: Evaluating the impact of community health volunteer home visits on child diarrhea and fever in the Volta Region, Ghana
Child deaths due to diarrhea and malaria are not uncommon in many low- and middle-income countries. In resource-poor settings, community ...
2 Minute Medicine Rewind June 17, 2019
Suicide in older adults living in or transitioning to residential long-term care, 2003 to 2015 It is estimated that by ...
Community members successfully implement school-based health programs
1. The Incidence of diarrheal illness decreased by almost 50% among rural primary school children at low-cost private schools in ...
Patient Basics: Diarrhea
Originally published by Harvard Health. What Is It? Diarrhea is more frequent and more liquid bowel movements than normal. There are ...
Fidaxomicin vs. vancomycin in C. difficile infection [Classics Series]
1. Fidaxomicin is non-inferior to vancomycin in achieving clinical cure of C. difficile infection 2. Fidaxomicin therapy significantly reduces the ...
Rotavirus vaccination associated with decreased rates of health care utilization
Image: PD 1. Compared with pre-vaccine rates, this retrospective study found rotavirus-coded hospitalizations decreased as rotavirus vaccination rates of US ...
Rotavirus vaccine associated with increased risk of intussusception
Image: PD 1. In the first 7 days after administration of the first dose, the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine, RotaTeq, was ...
Novel prion disease associated with diarrhea and autonomic neuropathy
Image: PD 1. A novel prion disease caused by a truncation mutation, Y163X, in the gene encoding prion protein (PRNP) ...
Vitamin D supplementation not associated with reduced diarrheal illness
Image: PD 1. Supplementation with vitamin D was not associated with a reduced risk of recurrent diarrheal illnesses in children ...
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