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New Approach to Childhood Malnutrition May Reduce Relapses, Death
Children treated for moderate acute malnutrition—a condition suffered by an estimated 35 million children worldwide experience a disturbingly high rate ...
Kohlberg Named Medical Ethics Coordinator
Beth Kohlberg, RN, BSN, MS-HCE, has been named medical ethics coordinator for St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s Medical Ethics Committee. In ...
Difficult Behavior in Young Children May Point to Later Problems
It’s normal for a young child to have tantrums and be otherwise disruptive, but researchers have found that if such ...
Depression, Overwhelming Guilt in Preschool Years Linked to Brain Changes
In school-age children previously diagnosed with depression as preschoolers, a key brain region involved in emotion is smaller than in ...
Changes to Testing for Neisseria Gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia Trachomatis
In March, the Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) Microbiology Laboratory began accepting pharyngeal (throat) and rectal swabs for nucleic acid amplification testing ...
SLCH Mourns The Loss Of Frederick Peterson, MD, Former Professor Of Pediatrics
Frederick D. Peterson, MD, a professor of clinical pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine, passed away last month at ...
Physician Profile: Joan Downey, MD
Meet Joan Downey, MD, MPH , whose decision to become a neonatologist was derived from an early experience. ...
Case Study: Enough
The following case study was used by Andrew J. White, MD, as part of the “Patient of the Week” (POW) ...