No Association Found Between Hypospadias and Maternal Use of Loratadine (Claritin)
Friday, 21 May 2004
Hypospadias affects approximately 7 in 1,000 male infants in the United States. A spectrum of clinical presentations exists.
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Long-term Risperidone Treatment Does Not Delay Growth, Sexual Maturation
Thursday, 20 May 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children treated for up to 1 year with risperidone do not experience significant growth failure or delay in pubertal onset or progression, according to researchers.
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Recurrence Rate of Febrile Urinary Tract Infections in Children with A Negative Radiologic Evaluation Is Higher in Girls and Uncircumcised Boys
Monday, 12 April 2004
Febrile urinary tract infections (UTIs) affect an estimated 1.0% of boys and 3.1% of girls and cause significant morbidity.
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Home Dilatation Feasible for Boys with Stenotic Urethral Meatus
Friday, 09 April 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Urethral meatal stenoses can be dilated at home by the boys or their parents, possibly reducing the need for hospitalization and a dilatation procedure under general anesthesia, according to a report by British researchers.
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Circumcision May Reduce HIV Risk
Wednesday, 07 April 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of a new study of more than 800 Kenyan men suggest that circumcision decreases the risk of HIV-1 infection, US and African researchers report in the March issue of Epidemiology.
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Cardiac Dysfunction Seen in Children after Kidney Transplantation
Thursday, 01 April 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cardiac hypertrophy is often seen in children after renal transplantation, and new research suggests that this structural abnormality has functional consequences.
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Cardiac Dysfunction Seen in Children after Kidney Transplantation
Thursday, 01 April 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cardiac hypertrophy is often seen in children after renal transplantation, and new research suggests that this structural abnormality has functional consequences.
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Enhanced MRI Helps Diagnose Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Friday, 19 March 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Gadolinium-enhanced MRI (G-MRI) appears to be more sensitive than conventional radiography in differentiating Crohn's disease from ulcerative colitis in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to research at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
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Genetic Males Often Self-Identify as Male Despite Female Assignment
Wednesday, 21 January 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Males born with severe phallic inadequacy are often assigned at birth to the female sex. Over time, many of these individuals assume a male identity, despite hormonal treatments and rearing practices, investigators report in The New England Journal of Medicine for January 22nd.
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Extended Application of Tabularized Incised Plate Urethroplasty Shows Excellent Results Over a Six-year Period
Tuesday, 20 January 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Recent data showed that the incidence of hypospadias nearly doubled over the past 30 years and the condition continues to be a challenging problem for urologists.
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Exposure to Plasticizer May Induce Premature Puberty
Monday, 05 January 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Chronic exposure to DEHP, a commonly used plasticizer, increases sex hormone levels and induces Leydig cell hyperplasia in young male rats, investigators have found.
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OC-Folic Acid Combo Proposed to Reduce Birth Defects
Tuesday, 16 December 2003
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (Reuters) - Adding the nutrient folic acid to an oral contraceptive may be a worthwhile way to further reduce certain types of birth defects, a U.S. advisory panel said Monday.
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Treatment of Urolithiasis in Children by Shock Wave Lithotripsy Termed Satisfactory and Efficacious
Wednesday, 10 December 2003
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Writing in European Urology, December 2003, Dr. Muslumanoglu and his colleagues from Istanbul, Turkey, report retrospectively on treatment of urinary tract calculi for 344 children using extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (SWL).
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Dynamic Enhanced MRI May Replace Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound and Voiding Cystography for Investigation of Hydronephrosis in Children
Thursday, 16 October 2003
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Doctors at the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta studied anatomy and renal function in 96 children with dynamic enhanced MRI and compared these studies with the combinations of nuclear medicine scans (NM), ultrasound studies (US) and voiding cystograms (VCUG). All children had MRI, and most had each of the other studies.
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Triple Iincision Surgery May Avoid Circumcision for Phimosis
Monday, 13 October 2003
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Triple incision surgery is a simple, fast, and safe treatment for phimosis in children that could represent a viable alternative to circumcision, according to Austrian researchers.
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