Accurate assessment of kidney size in paediatric populations is crucial for distinguishing normal organ growth from pathological alterations associated with congenital or acquired renal conditions.

Orthodontic treatment is most effective when timed to coincide with a child's growth peak. Traditionally, clinicians estimate ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At baseline, 26.6% of children with Crohn’s had a weight disturbance, 27.7% had a height disturbance and 19.7% ...

Previous studies of pediatric vertebrae and rib morphology use varying measurement techniques to collect geometric dimensions from nonhomogeneous samples and few of these studies evaluate growth or ...

"A well-planned, plant-based diet, ideally with the support of a registered dietician, is safe and will lead to normal growth and development." — Rosan Meyer, RD, PhD, Department of Medicine, KU, ...

Growth impairment, a common complication of Crohn's disease in children, occurs more often in males than females, but the reasons are unclear. Now, a physician-scientists have found that factors ...

Because treatment with growth hormone (GH), often necessitated by GH deficiency from childhood cancer, has been linked to tumorigenesis, concerns remain around its use among childhood cancer survivors ...

Children who received recombinant human growth hormones (rhGHs) were at an increased risk of cardiovascular events once they reached early adulthood in a Swedish cohort study. Among 3,408 patients on ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who underwent psychosocial assessment after spine fusion had decreased length of stay. Patients who had ...