During an unusually hot summer, how can the clinician differentiate hyperthermia from a fever of infection? Do the old guidelines hold? br / iMedscape Infectious Diseases/i
The latest figures from UNICEF indicate that 9.2 million children younger than 5 years of age died in 2007, which represents a 28% reduction in deaths from 1990. Reuters Health Information
A new cohort study suggests that teenage smokers who use cigarettes as a form of self-medication may be more susceptible to increased depressive symptoms. Medscape Medical News
U.S. regulators are weighing a question parents have asked since the 1970s: do artificial food dyes make children hyperactive? Reuters Health Information
Investigators are reporting that more than one third of mothers and more than half of their infants are vitamin D-deficient at the time of birth. Reuters Health Information
In children who have beaten cancer once, skin cancers appear to be an early warning sign of more aggressive disease, a new study shows. br / iReuters Health Information/i
