Immunotherapy Trials for Food Allergy Hold Strong Appeal for Parents

Two-thirds of surveyed caregivers felt that their child’s food allergy affected their own daily lives very much or extremely, according to a report in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Two-thirds of caregivers also expressed...
21-Mar-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

New Direction for Precision Medicine in Epilepsy

In a new approach to precision medicine research, scientists used bioinformatics tools to identify common features of genes associated with infantile spasms compared to other forms of early life epilepsy. Their analysis, published in PLOS ONE,...
15-Mar-2018 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

One-Third of School Nurses Report at Least One Severe Food Allergic Reaction in School

Nearly all school nurses participating in a national survey (96 percent) reported that staff at their school received training on handling severe allergic reactions to food. Over 80 percent asserted that their school had an emergency epinephrine...
13-Mar-2018 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Why Do Healthy Children Die from the Flu? Study Offers New Insights

With this year’s severe flu season, one statistic is especially chilling. Each year, around 50 percent of all children under 5 years old who die from the flu were previously healthy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
15-Feb-2018 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Which Commonly Prescribed Drug is More Effective for Infants with Epilepsy?

Comparison of two of the most commonly prescribed drugs for infants with nonsyndromic epilepsy revealed that levetiracetam was more effective than phenobarbital, according a multicenter, observational study published in JAMA Pediatrics. After six...
8-Feb-2018 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Brain Imaging Predicts Language Learning in Deaf Children

In a new international collaborative study between The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, researchers created a machine learning algorithm that uses brain scans to predict language ability in...
10-Jan-2018 9:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Medical Marijuana for Children with Cancer? What Providers Think

A study published in Pediatrics examined interdisciplinary provider perspectives on legal medical marijuana use in children with cancer. It found that 92 percent of providers were willing to help children with cancer access medical marijuana....
6-Dec-2017 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Cystic Fibrosis Drug Shows Promise in Children as Young as 1 Year of Age

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is one of the study sites in the open label Phase 3 study that showed safety and effectiveness of the cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco (ivacaftor) in children ages 1 to 2 years. Based on these...
7-Dec-2017 4:45 PM EST Add to Favorites

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