Dr. Janine Zee-Cheng, a board-certified pediatrician in Indiana, told HuffPost that sometimes a child will come in with a ...

Antibiotic management of acute uncomplicated appendicitis among children was inferior to appendectomy, a randomized non-inferiority trial showed. For nearly 850 children with available primary ...

For nearly 850 children with available primary outcome data, treatment failure at 12 months occurred in 34% of those who received antibiotics compared with 7% of those who underwent appendectomy ...

Antibiotics prescribed for a premature baby suffering with a respiratory illness were not given until after he suffered the ...

They said that "no rationale" existed for the treatment of children with sore throats with antibiotics. The team recommended that GPs only use penicillin in children with sore throats when they ...

For now, an alternative approach to uncomplicated appendicitis in LMICs might be to first treat children with antibiotics while they travel to a qualified centre for safe, definitive surgery.

Most of Dr. Leah Schrupp’s patients know it. So do most of Dr. Erin Knudtson’s patients. If they visit their doctor with a runny nose, chest cold or the usual flu symptoms, they ...

Ben Condon, who was two months old, died at Bristol Children’s Hospital in April 2015 after developing a respiratory illness.

A doctor treating a premature baby has defended the decision not to give him antibiotics the day before he died.

An older study investigated the difference between oral amoxicillin and injectable penicillin for pneumonia in children. The research showed that a similar percentage of participants (81%) in both the ...

Back in April, just before his 17th birthday, Aiden had been feeling run down and tired. He figured it was an iron deficiency ...