Getting ready for AAP 2015!

The degree of toxicity following pediatric ingestion of THC was correlated to the dose of THC, as ingestions of 1.7 mg/kg or more was predictive of severe and prolonged toxicity, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

The 20 children in the investigation had been diagnosed with ASD by PCPs who were trained using the ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) Autism Screening Tool for Autism in Toddlers and Young Children (STAT).

Tocilizumab-bavi (Tofidence; Biogen) demonstrated a biosimilarity to tocilizumab (Actemra; Genentech) based on multifaceted clinical and non-clinical data for polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (PJIA) and systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) in children aged 2 years and up. This makes it the first tocilizumab biosimilar to be FDA-approved in the United States, according to Biogen.

As we head into cold and flu season, researchers try to answer the question of what physical interventions are best for infection prevention.