Items tagged with Pediatrics
Children with cytomegalovirus infection by age 1 more likely to develop TB in childhood (post)
Children infected with cytomegalovirus—a type of common herpes virus—before they were 12 months old were more than three times as likely to develop tuberculosis disease in their childhood than babies who did not contract the virus in their first year.
Missing in action: Why children are not getting TB treatment (post)
Every day, more than 650 children around the world die from tuberculosis – largely because they have never had the chance to be diagnosed and treated.
Global estimates of paediatric TB incidence in 2013–19: a mathematical modelling analysis (post)
An article published in The Lancet Global Health estimated paediatric TB incidence and underreporting between 2013 and 2019 in countries representing more than 99% of the global TB burden.
RESIST-TB webinar: Pediatric PK for the new and repurposed TB drugs – Where are we now? (post)
RESIST-TB will host a webinar on the latest developments in pediatric pharmacokinetics (PK) of bedaquiline, linezolid, delamanid and pretomanid on 26 January 2022.
Treatment length reduced for children with TB (post)
A UCL-led international trial exploring the effectiveness of tuberculosis (TB) treatment in children has led to a change in the World Health Organisation’s global guidelines for managing the disease.
BCG vaccine Phase 2 study launches for pediatric type 1 diabetes (post)
Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), in partnership with NYU Langone Health, announced on March 1, 2022, a multi-center phase 2 clinical trial has launched to investigate a new BCG vaccine treatment for pediatric type 1 diabetes, even in subjects with established disease.
World TB Day 2022 scientific symposium (post)
On 24 March 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Society of Radiology (ISR) along with the World Federation of Pediatric Imaging (WFPI) will host a special World TB Day 2022 scientific symposium: Updated WHO guidelines on the management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents: the role of chest radiography to mark the release of updated WHO guidance.
Webinar: Treatment of pediatric MDR-TB - lessons from the field (post)
RESIST-TB will host a webinar on 4 May 2022 on the latest childhood treatments and guidelines of the World Health Organization in the pediatric multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) regimens and lessons from the field.
Outcomes, safety of weight-based bedaquiline in children with multidrug-resistant TB (post)
Weight-based dosing of bedaquiline for multidrug/rifampicin-resistant (MDR/RR) tuberculosis (TB) infection was safe and effective among children with and without HIV coinfection, according to findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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