Replacing juice with fruit in the diets of children
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Analysis of data from 7023 children (3-18 years of age) using information from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey whose fruit juice intake was completely replaced with inexpensive fresh whole fruit illustrates the potential nutritional benefits of reduced energy intake, improvement in fiber consumption at an increase in diet cost of only 54 cents/day.
Source: JAMA
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Anaphylaxis following Immunization
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Between 2008-09 over 5.5 million vaccines were delivered/utilized in children < 16 years of age in the UK and Ireland.
Anaphylactic reaction is a rare adverse event, most reactions occurring more than 30 minutes after the administration of the vaccine, require intramuscular adrenalin and intravenous fluids. In the study all recovered fully.
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood
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Clarithromycin therapy for patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
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Azithromycin and Clarithromycin (like other member macrolides) appear to have similar immunomodulatory effects. Two small short term clinical studies utilizing azithromycin in CF patients failed to show any beneficial effects on lung function or on the inflammatory process.
A large International double blind, cross over trial of 63 CF patients, treated either with a placebo or oral Clarithromycin twice daily for five months did not demonstrate any beneficial effect of the drug.
Source: Pediatric Pulmonology
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