April 26, 2012 — That anxious hospital emergency department (ED) visit to learn whether a child's belly ache is a sign of appendicitis increasingly involves computed tomography (CT) to render a ...

Children's Hospital Los Angeles appoints Dr. Kambiz Etesami, MD, FACS, to lead its nationally renowned, high-survival rate ...

Hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and probiotics are effective in the treatment of pediatric abdominal pain-related functional gastrointestinal disorders. Data are inconclusive, however, ...

Researchers explored how the gut-brain axis may affect pediatric migraineurs. In a recent review, researchers analyzed the abdominal variants of migraine and functional abdominal pain disorders ...

Doctors in Pune, India, recently operated on a 10-year-old girl to remove a 10-oz. hairball, equivalent in size to a roll of ...

Recurrent abdominal pain is a common childhood complaint, occurring in up to 40 percent of children and accounting for at least five percent of all pediatric office visits. RAP commonly is classified ...

MILWAUKEE – She was fine until the nurse said, “Madison, you can’t drive the car home today.” The attempt at levity backfired and the 7-year-old started crying. Madison Wick was about to undergo ...

Worried single mother consoling her little girl who is having stomachache at home. Experts discuss the clinical features of, treatments for, and need for further research on the topic of abdominal ...

A study by a pediatric surgical oncologist from The University of Texas MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital shows that an adult surgery adapted for use in young patients increased the survival of ...

FDA approves IBS drug for children, Linzess, to treat pediatric IBS-C in patients ages 7 and older with proven safety and efficacy.

A survey by Boston Children’s Hospital researchers claims pediatric gastroenterologists overuse abdominal radiographs when managing functional constipation, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy News reports ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children born to mothers who consumed at least 360 mg caffeine per day during pregnancy are more likely to have ...