Every year, nearly 500,000 children die from an easily curable condition: diarrhea. There's a simple and effective treatment: mixing oral rehydration salts — which are basically a mix of sugar and ...

Young children in India who suffer from life-threatening diarrhea frequently are given ineffective treatments because health providers misperceive the wishes of a child’s caregiver, according to a ...

Young children in India who suffer from life-threatening diarrhea frequently are given ineffective treatments because health providers misperceive the wishes of a child's caregiver, according to a ...

A qualitative study of the use of a clinical decision support tool in pediatric diarrhea identified the expectations of clinicians and the concerns of parents surrounding the tool’s use. “Clinical ...

Healthcare providers’ assumptions about patient preferences drive underutilization of lifesaving oral hydration salts (ORS) in treating childhood diarrhea in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), ...

Tis the season for colds, coughs, pink eye, vomiting and countless other common pediatric health issues as the school year and school-based activities are in full swing. But as busy parents know, ...

Researchers from USC and Duke report in Science Advances that the persistent "know-do gap"—where clinicians know guidelines but practice differently—is the primary driver of antibiotic overprescribing ...

A new study seeks to find the reasons that health-care personnel avoid the easy treatment for this potentially life-threatening condition. Every year, nearly 500,000 children die from an easily ...