Address: 1Department of Rheumatology, Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Hospital S. João, Porto, Portugal, 2Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Infante D. Pedro, Aveiro, Portugal, 3Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine of Porto, Hospital S. João, Porto, Portugal and 4Department of Rheumatology, Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Faculty of Medicine of Porto, Hospital S. João, Porto, Portugal * Co...

Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Department of Pathology, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR; Section of Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Thromboembolism, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department ...

A 12-year-old, previously healthy girl presented to the Pediatric Emergency Department with back pain and decreased sensation and tingling in her bilateral lower extremities. She had back pain for the past 2 months; the initial episode lasted 2 to 3 days. At that point, she had missed 1 day of school. The pain disappeared, and she returned to her normal activities, including playing soccer and ...

BACKGROUND Neonatal resuscitations and significant adverse cardiorespiratory events during pediatric sedations are infrequent. Thus, it is challenging to maintain the skills necessary to manage patients experiencing these events. As the pediatric emergency medicine specialty expands, exposure of general emergency medicine physicians to these potentially critical patients may become even more li...

JPRM is pleased to recognize Dr. Michael Alexander as the inaugural winner of the Gabriella Molnar, MD Pediatric Lifetime Award from the Foundation of PM&R. Dr. Michael Alexander has dedicated his entire career to the pursuit improving this subspecialty of Pediatric PM&R. Dr. Alexander served as the Chief of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE...

1Division of Hematology and Oncology, Sainte-Justine Hospital, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada; 2Departments of Pediatric Oncology, Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; 3Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY; 4Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, McMaster University, Hamil...

there is inadequate knowledge about acute poisoning as a common problem in children. acute poisoning in children, , is one of the health problems, requiring immediate treatment. case report: a two-month-old male infant with discoloration of the nails was admitted to the emergency pediatric unit of imam reza hospital, mashhad, iran in 2014. following clinical evaluations, the blood lead level wa...

BACKGROUND Critically-injured children are frequently treated by providers who lack specialty pediatric training in facilities that have not been modified for the care of children. We set out to understand the attitudes and perspectives of policy makers, and senior nursing and medical managers in the Israeli healthcare system, concerning the provision of medical care to pediatric trauma casualt...

Introduction Constipation in children is a common health problem affecting 0.7% to 29.6% children across the world. Exact etiology for developing symptoms is not clear in children and the majority is considered to have functional constipation. The diagnosis is often a symptom-based clinical process. Recently developed Rome III diagnostic criteria looks promising, both in clinical and research f...

Promoting safety of medicines for children is a global concern which has prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to launch a campaign of "Making Medicines Child Size". Children in Nigeria were once victims of unethical clinical medicine trials and repeated victims of use of fake and adulterated medicines. Considering the magnitude of harms children had suffered in Nigeria from the use of m...