April 26, 2012 — That anxious hospital emergency department (ED) visit to learn whether a child's belly ache is a sign of appendicitis increasingly involves computed tomography (CT) to render a ...

Hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and probiotics are effective in the treatment of pediatric abdominal pain-related functional gastrointestinal disorders. Data are inconclusive, however, ...

Recurrent abdominal pain is a common childhood complaint, occurring in up to 40 percent of children and accounting for at least five percent of all pediatric office visits. RAP commonly is classified ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Maria Lalouni, of Karolinska Insitutet in Sweden, said although cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has shown ...

The review included children aged 5-21 years with functional abdominal pain treated with SSRI or TCA. Pediatric patients with functional abdominal pain showed a significantly greater response to ...

Each month, The Clinical Advisor makes one new clinical feature available ahead of print. Don’t forget to take the poll. The results will be published in the next month’s issue. Acute abdominal pain ...

Delivering high-quality emergency care for kids may mean fewer CT scans, according to a new study. The research validates intra-abdominal injury (IAI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) prediction rules ...

ZERBAXA The approvals were based on data from pediatric trials evaluating treatment for complicated intra-abdominal infections and complicated urinary tract infections. The Food and Drug ...

A study by a pediatric surgical oncologist shows that an adult surgery adapted for use in young patients increased the survival of children with rare tumors in the abdomen. A study by a pediatric ...

Dr. Chinwendu Onwubiko received her medical degree and doctor of philosophy in a dual program from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2010. She then completed a general surgery internship ...