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 ...

Worried single mother consoling her little girl who is having stomachache at home. Experts discuss the clinical features of, treatments for, and need for further research on the topic of abdominal ...

Researchers explored how the gut-brain axis may affect pediatric migraineurs. In a recent review, researchers analyzed the abdominal variants of migraine and functional abdominal pain disorders ...

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 ...

Functional abdominal pain disorders cause significant stress in children, driving high care use. New guidelines urge ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON - A study by a pediatric surgical oncologist from The University of Texas MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital shows that an adult surgery adapted for use in young patients increased the ...