paediatrics
paediatrics

Deception and Fraud in the Justification of “Pediatric Drug Development”: A Challenge at the Interface of Medicine and Law

J Law Med. 2024 Nov;31(3):635-644. ABSTRACT United States and European Union laws demand separate clinical studies in children as a condition for drugs’ marketing approval. …

Prediction of urinary tract infection using machine learning methods: a study for finding the most-informative variables

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2025 Jan 9;25(1):13. doi: 10.1186/s12911-024-02819-2. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a frequent health-threatening condition. Early reliable diagnosis of …

A novel homozygous intronic variant in CDT1 that alters splicing causes Meier-Gorlin syndrome, and a review of published mutations and growth hormone treatments

Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2024 Dec 18;19(1):465. doi: 10.1186/s13023-024-03430-4. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Meier-Gorlin syndrome (MGORS) is a rare autosomal inherited form of primordial dwarfism. Pathogenic variants …

A protocol to study the effect of targeted parental education intervention to identify early childhood development disorder – multisite interventional study

Arch Public Health. 2025 Jan 10;83(1):7. doi: 10.1186/s13690-024-01495-y. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: In India, approximately 3.5 million children are affected by Developmental Delay (DD), often stemming from …

Reasons, associated factors, and attitudes toward breastfeeding mothers’ use of complementary medicine products: a study from Türkiye

Int Breastfeed J. 2025 Jan 9;20(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s13006-024-00687-0. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The use of Complementary Medicine Products (CMPs) has been increasing worldwide, including among breastfeeding mothers. …

Development and external validation of a machine learning model for brain injury in pediatric patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Crit Care. 2025 Jan 9;29(1):17. doi: 10.1186/s13054-024-05248-9. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Patients supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) are at a high risk of brain injury, contributing …

Impact of water, sanitation, and hygiene indicators on enteric viral pathogens among under-5 children in low resource settings

Sci Total Environ. 2025 Jan 8;961:178401. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178401. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Poor water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are the primary risks of exposure …