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VIDEO: Children ‘must not be left behind' in the fight for hepatitis elimination
CHICAGO - In this exclusive video from the International Liver Congress 2019, Marc Bulterys, MD, PhD, team leader of the Global Hepatitis Program at the World Health...
1 day ago - Healio - 2 articles
USPSTF: Insufficient evidence to screen asymptomatic pregnant women, young children for elevated blood lead levels
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently concluded there is insufficient evidence to determine the balance and harms of screening for elevated blood lead levels in...
3 days ago - Healio
Quick assessment with controlled attenuation parameter for hepatic steatosis in children based on MRI-PDFF as the gold standard
Controlled attenuation parameter is a recently introduced, non-invasive and quantitative method to evaluate hepatic steatosis demonstrated in adults, but limited in obesity and...
4 days ago - BMC
Critical Features To Include In Your Health And Nutrition App
Do you know that by the end of 2025, India alone will have 17 million obese children? Not only this, obesity will shoot diseases like Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, and Hepatic...
6 days ago - HealthWorks Collective
Maternal HBV prophylaxis does not affect BMD
Children of women who used tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, or TDF, to prevent transmission of hepatitis B to their child did not have lower bone mineral density compared with...
7 days ago - Healio
Scale-up of MTCT intervention in Africa vital to HBV elimination
VIENNA - Epidemiological modelling showed that scale-up of hepatitis B mother-to-child transmission intervention and treatment in Africa will be as important in the progress to...
7 days ago - Healio
Steroid free treatment in autoimmune hepatitis: Is azathioprine monotherapy truly a viable option to obtain remission?
We read with interest the article by Wehrman et al.1 We agree that adverse effects of prednisone therapy have a significant physical and psychological impact in children and...
8 days ago - The Journal of Pediatrics
47. Estrogen to Testosterone Ratio May Predict NAFLD Risk in Pubertal Females
During puberty preferential deposition of peripheral subcutaneous fat in females contrasts with central abdominal fat deposition in males, reflecting distinct influences of...
8 days ago - Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Is IVF Linked to Subsequent Childhood Cancer?
A population-based retrospective study suggests modest excess risk for embryonal tumors - especially hepatic tumors - in children conceived with IVF.
11 days ago - Journal Watch
Taking No Prisoners in the Vaccine Culture War
By Barbara Loe Fisher On a cold winter morning in November 2007, I watched hundreds of parents line up with their children in front of a Maryland county courthouse. The...
17 days ago - Mercola
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