Many people who take part in clinical trials never find out whether they were treated with the active medication being studied or just a placebo,

The American Medical Association is planning to make history when it opens the interim meeting of its House of Delegates here tomorrow. For the first

לקראת פסח תצא משלחת של תלמידי י”א-י”ב לניו דלהי; ידריכו בני נוער מקומיים גם בשמירה על היגיינה ובמודעות לבריאות; המועמדים המבוקשים: בעלי ידע סביר באנגלית

Maternal alcohol use, as well as how a baby is dressed for bed, influences the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) among Native American

The National Institutes of Health needs to work much more closely with industry to find cures for disease and improve global health and will “aggressively”

Physicians should only conduct e-mail consultations if they have previously established a relationship with a patient, according to new guidelines announced on Wednesday. A consortium

Improper dosing and other medication mishaps continue to pose serious health risks for US hospital patients, particularly children and individuals treated in the emergency room,

Israel, the first country to adopt a universal hepatitis A immunization program for young children three years ago, experienced an abrupt overall reduction of the

Peripheral thyroid hormones T3 and T4 as well as thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) are moderately elevated in obese children, according to a recent report. Weight

British researchers have found that it is possible to obtain and cryopreserve semen samples from boys as young as 12 who are about to undergo

ביוזמה חדשה וברוכה של החברה הישראלית לפדיאטריה קלינית (חיפ”ק) והעומד בראשה ד”ר מתי ברקוביץ, וביחד עם חברת – MEAD JOHNSON-PHARMABEST נוסד עיתון מקצועי חדש לחברי

High levels of an inhaled drug used to treat asthma have been linked to adrenal gland failure in children, according to the results of a

Paediatric coverage of 7- and 11-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines depends on the age of the children and the disease, research from Germany indicates.  The same

German clinicians have developed a new non-invasive ultrasound technique to measure blood flow to the brain of neonates. Such monitoring of changes in volume of

There has been a rise of suspected fatal side effects in the past 10 years in Britain from drugs prescribed to children and reported by

Obesity has a positive association with sexual maturation in girls, while in boys, obesity has a negative association, Dr. Youfa Wang, from the University of

Single-dose azithromycin had been found to be as effective as 12 doses of erythromycin over three days for treatment of cholera among children.  Results are

When newborns are diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, testing for chromosome 6 abnormalities may help differentiate transient from permanent forms of the illness. According to a

An oral vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline is effective in preventing severe diarrhea related to rotavirus infection in children, according to new study results presented Friday

Austrian researchers are developing a cancer “vaccine” strategy for use in pediatric cancers. In a three-year pilot study carried out at St. Anna’s Children’s Hospital