pediatrics
3 stories tagged "pediatrics"
Drugs & FDA
The FDA's 'Historic' Growing Heart Valve Has Been Stretched in Two Children
Children who get a new heart valve before age 2 can face up to five open-heart surgeries. Edwards' polymer valve is built to end that, and the trial behind its approval widened it in two of 62 kids.
Drugs & FDAA Hundred Thousand Dollars, Two Inches, and a New Calculator for Sorting Short Children
About $100,000 buys a healthy short child two inches of height. A new calculator predicts who responds best, and it joins a field where some of the biggest datasets belong to the companies selling the hormone.
Metabolic & WeightOne in Six Kids on Weight-Loss Drugs Was Diagnosed With a Nutrient Deficiency, and Only 5 Percent Got Nutrition Counseling
The alarm about kids going short on vitamin D on Ozempic-style drugs came from a study funded by Abbott, which sells the very nutrition drinks marketed to fill those gaps.