About The Study: In this population-based cohort study of Ontario children and youth, while emergency department visits following a primary sick visit were infrequent, virtual sick visits to primary care were associated with a small increase in emergency department use in children ages 3 months or older, especially low-acuity emergency department visits. Judicious use of virtual primary care to manage acute illness in children is warranted.

About The Study: In this study, quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination was associated with reduced risk of high-grade vulvovaginal lesions, suggesting that expanding vaccination, especially at younger ages, could help prevent high-grade vulvovaginal lesions. 

A major scientific breakthrough has shown that deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups can be detected in seconds using simple, low-cost tests, offering a realistic way to prevent the deaths of children caused by poisoned medicines.

For older adults, the quality of sleep may affect cognitive performance the following day regardless of their quantity of sleep, according to a new study by researchers from the Penn State College of Health and Human Development and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York. The researchers found that the quality of a night of sleep — rather than the length of the night of sleep — predicted how quickly older adults processed information the next day. 

Researchers at UT Health San Antonio, the academic health center of the The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) were recently awarded a $10 million program project grant from the National Cancer Institute to investigate the connections between the APOBEC mutagenesis and cancer. The program is the only National Cancer Institute-funded program specifically targeting APOBEC.

Boston Children’s Hospital today announced that it has received a grant of $7.5 million from Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) to support its role in the Clinical Coordinating Center (CCC) for the Innovative Medicine and Precision Approaches to Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Network, an international network of sites designed to accelerate clinical trials for individuals with autism, both with a known rare high-penetrance genetic etiology and those with profound autism without a genetic cause identified.

A new study is among the first to examine what actually happens after hospitals sell their real estate to REITs, finding no immediate improvements or harms to hospitals’ finances or quality but revealing that hospitals acquired by REITs were substantially more likely to close or file for bankruptcy.