Showing posts with label Pediatric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pediatric. Show all posts
Monday, November 18, 2013

AAP/CDC: New Guidance On For Antibiotics For Children

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# 7989   As the graphic above shows, there is considerable geographic disparity in the amount of antibiotics being prescribed across ...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Pediatrics: Influenza-Associated Pediatric Deaths

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  Credit CDC FluView   # 7908   Since reporting became mandatory in 2004, yearly pediatric influenza deaths have ranged from a low...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

BMJ: Risk Factors For Children With Pandemic Flu

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  The chart above (Aug 2012) illustrates the sharp rise in pediatric deaths from flu-related complications during the 2009-2010 H1N1 pan...
Friday, March 22, 2013

CDC: About 90% Of Pediatric Flu Fatalities Were Unvaccinated

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      # 7023   While we’ve seen less than sterling flu vaccine effectiveness ( VE ) numbers over the past few years (see CIDRAP:...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Study: Kids, Underlying Conditions, And The 2009 Pandemic Flu

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Credit CDC   FluView   # 6522   The chart above illustrates the sharp rise in pediatric deaths from flu-related complications dur...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Study: Kids, Pandemic H1N1 & MRSA Co-Infection

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      # 5945   We’ve looked at a connection between enhanced flu mortality and bacterial co-infections many times in the pas...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Pediatrics: Effectiveness Of A Single Adjuvanted Pandemic Flu Shot In Children

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  # 5890     The recommendation by the CDC for young children receiving the ( unadjuvanted ) flu vaccine is that:   Childr...
Friday, September 16, 2011

MMWR: Influenza-Associated Pediatric Deaths 2010-2011

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    # 5844     The CDC’s   MMWR yesterday contained an in-depth look at 115 flu-related pediatric deaths over the past 12 months ...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

It’s In The Bag

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      # 5743     An interesting report appears this week in Pediatrics , the journal of the AAP , on the temperature and safety ...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Study: Prior Antibiotic Use & MRSA In Children

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    Photo Credit – CDC PHIL     # 5730   Canadian researchers, examining 13 years worth of data from the UK’s General Practic...
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

MJA: Safety Of Flu Shot In Young Children

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    # 5612   Last year a significant number of young Australian children receiving a specific brand of flu shot - FluVax or ...
Monday, April 04, 2011

FluView Week 12

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    # 5458     Although influenza season is winding down in the northern hemisphere the latest FluView report from the CDC indic...