PURPOSE OF REVIEW The current review describes recent advances and unique challenges in precision medicine for pediatric cancers and highlights clinical trials assessing the clinical impact of targeted therapy matched to molecular alterations identified by tumor profiling. RECENT FINDINGS Multiple prospective clinical sequencing studies in pediatric oncology have been reported in the last 2 y...

About the lead author (Dr Krug): I am a professor of pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and head the division of emergency medicine at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. I currently serve as the chairperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council and am past-chair for both the AAP Committee on Pediatr...

Purpose There is limited information available about factors that influence interest, beliefs and utilization of CAIM (Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine) in a pediatric population. Thus, the current study examined these factors through questionnaires to both (1) caregivers of pediatric patients and (2) pediatric healthcare providers. This two-part study was conducted at CHOC ...

INTRODUCTION As emergency medicine (EM) has become a more prominent feature in the clinical years of medical school training, national EM clerkship curricula have been published to address the need to standardize students' experiences in the field. However, current national student curricula in EM do not include core pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) concepts. METHODS A workgroup was formed ...

Renal scintigraphic methods, which are physiologic and minimally invasive, have played important role in the management of various renal diseases in children, providing sensitive tool for early detection of disease even before structural changes become prominent and giving valuable functional and anatomical information to aid medical decision makings in the treatment and follow-up of patients. ...

UNMET NEED FOR HIV SCREENING AMONG ADOLESCENTS WITH PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE Sloane Bowman, BS, Arlene Butz, ScD, Richard Rothman, MD, PhD, Jennifer Anders, MD, Betty Johnson, RN, Maria Trent, MD, MPH Center for Disease Controll, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics; The Johns Hopkins...

Young-Min Kim MD*, Anthony Orvedahl MD, PhD, Stephanie Morris MD , Robert Schmidt MD, Soe Mar MD Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri Division of Pediatric and Developmental Ne...