Hematology
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Premature infants on parenteral nutrition among the casualties in zinc shortage
Major finding: Seven infants developed severe zinc deficiencies after receiving zinc-deficient parenteral nutrition as a result of the nationwide...
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Gene panel identifies residual neuroblastoma metastases
Major finding: In a multivariate analysis, patients negative for minimal residual disease had about a fourfold increased rate of progression-free...
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Equipping pediatricians to take on cancer survivor care
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CAR-T cells drive ALL into remission
Major finding: Anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T cells induced complete responses in 10 of 16 children and young adults with relapsed/...
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Sickle cell crises curtailed with experimental cellular adhesion inhibitor
Major finding: The mean time to resolution of vaso-occlusive crisis in patients with sickle cell disease was 103 hours for patients treated with...
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Gene therapy for SCID-X1 may successfully reset immune system
Major finding: Of nine boys with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency who were treated with gene therapy, seven patients have evidence of T-...
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Resurrected gemtuzumab shows benefit against pediatric AML
Major finding: Three-year event-free survival rates were 53% for children and young adults treated with gemtuzumab ozogamicin added to a standard...
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Vitamin K deficiency bleeding in infants tied to insufficient parent knowledge of risks
Major finding: Among 3,080 infants born at one hospital and 218 infants born in birthing centers, 3.4% and 28%, respectively, did not receive...
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Pazopanib shows promise as pediatric sarcoma therapy
Major finding: Results of the DCE-MRI analysis showed a decrease in tumor blood volume from a mean of 16% at the start of treatment to 7% at the...
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Cord blood transplants improve juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia survival
Major finding: Children aged younger than 1.4 years at diagnosis had significantly better disease-free survival rates (HR, 0.42), while those who...
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Cranial radiotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia linked to impaired neurocognition
Major finding: Compared with controls, survivors who had cranial radiotherapy had significant reductions in white matter integrity and lower...