All posts tagged "Pediatrics"

A stabbing incident at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey left two nurses and one medical resident wounded on Friday, following a domestic dispute with visitors in the hospital’s pediatric ICU. Hospital officials said the three staff members suffered lacerations and were rushed to the onsite emergency department with minor injuries, reports News 12 New Jersey. There were no patients or family members injured in the attack. The incident occurred around 7 a.m. Friday, when a woman identified as Firdousi A. Abdul-Hakim, 37, allegedly attacked the staff, according to officials. Th......

San Diego County's only children's hospital reports that it continues to see elevated numbers of young patients arriving in its emergency department with cannabis poisoning, echoing findings from a new analysis released last week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Natalie Laub, a pediatrician and cannabis researcher at Rady Children's Hospital, said the situation has been most dramatic for children age 5 and younger. "We were seeing about 20 kids per year, with the average age being 3 years old," Laub said. "Then COVID happened, and now we're seeing upwards of 80 to 10......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Calling his demand for records and testimony a “burdensome overreach” despite “no allegations of wrongdoing,” Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City is suing Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey over an investigation his office opened last month into gender-affirming care. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Jackson County, asks a judge to toss out an investigative demand letter sent by the attorney general’s office in late March. Requests include all instances when child abuse was reported to law enforcement and questions of whether the hospital prescribes hormone blockers fo......

ORLANDO, Fla. — In the span of a little over a month, Central Florida has been left reeling by a spate of several gruesome gun deaths, many of them young children. The shootings also have medical leaders pleading for gun violence to be treated like a nonpartisan public health crisis rather than a political issue. In mid-February, a 3-year-old died in DeLand after shooting himself with a gun found inside a nightstand. Days later, Nathacha Augustin, 38, Spectrum News 13 Journalist Dylan Lyons, 24, and T’Yonna Major, 9, were killed during a February shooting spree in the Pine Hills community that......

The American Academy of Pediatrics published guidelines for treating the 14.4 million U.S. children and teens afflicted by obesity on Monday. The organization of 67,000 pediatricians recognized obesity as a “sensitive topic” that can be treated successfully by acknowledging it as a condition in which “complex” factors from genes to family income can play a factor. Recommendations for kids as young as 2 include behavior and lifestyle changes including physical activity. As heavily overweight children enter their teens, those treatments as well as medications may be in order, along with surgical......

PHILADELPHIA — Raspy cries and barky coughs echoed across the emergency room at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children on a recent chilly morning in North Philadelphia. Kids had just started to stream into the waiting room, yet every available bed was already filled. Fifteen-month-old Zariya Sutton-Pack wheezed as she waited for medical attention on a hospital gurney. Her chest and rib cage heaved under a white cotton onesie. It looked as though she were trying to draw air through a collapsed paper straw. "I just burst into tears this morning. I was so scared," said her mom, Tyshanek Sutton, ......