Respiratory syncytial virus RSV Vaccines

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, which manifests primarily as bronchiolitis and/or viral pneumonia, is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection in infants and young children....

Substance Use in Children and Adolescents

Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children

Screening and diagnosis of children and adults

Hypopituitarism in Children Resulting in Short Stature

Featured Clinical Trial: Treating KSHV-Associated Multicentric Castleman Disease

The name of the trial is Pilot Study of Tocilizumab in Patients with Symptomatic Kaposi Sarcoma Herpesvirus (KSHV)-Associated Multicentric Castleman Disease (NCI-11-C-0233).

Treating KSHV-Associated Multicentric Castleman Disease

In this pilot study, patients with KSHV-associated multicentric Castleman disease will receive intravenous tocilizumab every other week for up to 12 weeks. Patients who do not benefit from tocilizumab...

Becoming a PubMed Expert

PubMed is probably the most important database used by scientists across the globe. Most researchers will routinely do a PubMed search to look for relevant literature on a monthly, if not weekly, basi...

F1000Research articles will be listed in PubMed, and deposited in PubMed Central

(Faculty of 1000: Biology and Medicine) F1000Research, the first Open Science publisher, announces that articles published in its innovative publishing system will be listed in PubMed, the world's lar...

New evidence shows PubMed Central undermines journal usage

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) PubMed Central may draw readership away from biomedical journal sites, with this effect increasing over time. This finding -- that PubMed Ce...

2012 'State Fair' Swine Flu H3N2 Outbreak in U.S. Was Correctly Predicted by Increase in Genomic Replikin®Count Two Years Earlier

LONDON, Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bioradar UK Ltd today concluded that an increase in the genomic Replikin®Counts of H3N2 virus (Swine Flu) in the U.S. from 2008 to 2011 correctly predicted t...

SpringerPlus now indexed in Scopus and PubMed Central

(Springer) SpringerPlus, Springer's interdisciplinary fully open access journal, is now indexed by PubMed Central and Scopus®. Consequently, authors publishing with SpringerPlus will enjoy maximum ex...

FASEB Journal: PubMed Central directly competes with biomedical publishers

PubMed Central may draw readership away from biomedical journal sites, with this effect increasing over time. This finding-that PubMed Central directly competes with biomedical publishers-was publishe...

Multicentric castleman disease in a child with primary immunodeficiency.

Multicentric Castleman disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder mostly seen in adults with HIV. It presents with fever and systemic symptoms and is extremely uncommon in children. We describe a...

Castleman Disease in the Parapharyngeal Space: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Castleman disease is most commonly found in the mediastinum, while the head and neck is the second most common location. The disease exists in a unicentric and multicentric variety and is usually succ...

Mesenteric Castleman's Disease in a 12-Year-Old Girl.

INTRODUCTION: Castleman's disease is a rare disorder characterized by proliferation of the lymphoid tissue usually presenting as an asymptomatic mediastinal mass in children. The location of the disea...

A Case of Castleman's Disease with Myasthenia Gravis.

A rare case of Castleman's disease with myasthenia gravis is reported. A 55-year-old woman with bilateral ptosis, speech impairment, and severe dyspnea had been previously diagnosed with myasthenia gr...

Retroperitoneal Castleman's disease presenting with hydronephrosis indistinguishable from lymphoma.

Castleman's disease is a rare benign lymphoproliferative disease. We describe a patient with an unusual case of retroperitoneal Castleman's disease who initially presented with hydronephrosis. Her dis...