| A new Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is studying the development of pediatric cancers. The research group is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and will receive €1.7 million over five years. | |
|
| In one-fifth of people with active tuberculosis, the site of disease is outside the lungs. Some forms of extrapulmonary TB, such as TB meningitis, are extremely dangerous, where a rapid diagnosis can make all the difference to a patient. | |
|
| Imagine if most children with cancer were treated by a doctor with no training or experience in cancer. It doesn't seem possible. In epilepsy, however, it's more common than not. | |
|
| Experiencing homelessness at any time during the pre- or postnatal period can negatively affect a young child's health. | |
|
| A University of Virginia Health System emergency medicine physician helped develop new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention treatment recommendations for children with concussions, also known as mild traumatic brain injury. | |
|
| The tiniest of premature infants - weighing just over two pounds at birth on average - start out receiving nutrition intravenously. Over the next several days or weeks, they are transitioned to enteral (or through the gut) feeds, often delivered through feeding tubes if the baby still cannot suck or swallow. | |