Recently the European Union approved MEPACT for use in pediatric patients with osteosarcoma.
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The safety and effectiveness of JUXTAPID have not been established in pediatric patients.
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Nearly 80 percent of the pediatric patients in this hospital had to be sedated in order to deal with the scary MRI machine.
He co-authored a study about cyanide poisoning and pediatric patients.
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Safety and effectiveness have not been established in pediatric patients.
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At Kaiser Permanente Northern California, a group of nonprofit hospitals and health plans with 3.2 million members, pediatric patients receive a letter when they turn 18 inviting them to choose their own doctor among a group of internists and family physicians who have a special interest and training in young adult issues.
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With other treatments the average stay for pediatric burn patients was 20 days.
Most attention and funding is focused on older patients and pediatric cancers.
Patients came for family medicine, pediatric care, OB-GYN services, and for help fighting chronic diseases that are pervasive in poor communities like diabetes and hypertension.
Bober was inspired to start the program when she realized many of her patients -- adult survivors of pediatric cancers -- were struggling with sexual issues and had no idea where to go for help.
Pediatric nephrologists treat the problem by administering growth hormones to young patients, but those treatments usually can't help a child grow to the same height as his or her peers, Spry said.
Marta Schulman, chair of the American College of Radiology Pediatric Imaging Commission, said the study adds to the impetus that patients should be scanned only when necessary and with the lowest dose of radiation possible.
Dr. Joan Gold, the Rusk Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center's director of Pediatric Rehabilitation, who watched briefly from the sidelines between appointments with her young patients and has seen the effect Only Make Believe has had on her patients over the years, agreed.
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