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  1. Ojemda® approved in the European Union as the first targeted therapy in relapsed or refractory pediatric low-grade glioma regardless of BRAF alteration

    New treatment option for rare, life-altering pediatric brain tumors Less than 10% of new medicine approvals over …
    #Europe #EU #alteration #approved #as #BRAF #European #EuropeanUnion #first #glioma #in #low-grade #of #Ojemda® #or #pediatric #refractory #regardless #relapsed #targeted #the #therapy #Union
    europesays.com/europe/19686/

  2. أعلنت #اللجنة التمهيدية لـ#نقابة #أطباء #السودان #مقتل #الطبيب بقسم #الأطفال في #مستشفى #نيالا محمد أحمد علي، ونعت #اللجنة في منشور على #فيسبوك مؤكدة مقتله على يد ضابط وأفراد من #الدعم #السريع داخل #منزله.

    The #Preparatory #Committee of the #Sudan #Doctors #Union announced the #killing of the #pediatric #doctor at #Nyala #Hospital Mohamed Ahmed Ali, and mourned him in a post on #Facebook confirming he was killed by an officer and members of the #Rapid #Support #Forces inside his #home.

  3. ‘What Did These Cuban Children Do to Trump?’: US #Embargo Blamed as Infant Mortality Soars
    “Is there anything worse than a child dying of cancer when it was preventable?” asked one observer.
    commondreams.org/news/cuba-inf

    from #CommonDrreams
    Brett Wilkins
    Feb 12, 2026

    The crisis is particularly dire among children with cancer. #Cuba’s free healthcare system—which prioritizes the health of the people instead of industry profits, as in the #US—once boasted a #pediatric cancer survival rate of 80%, on par with the world’s wealthy nations. Now that’s down to around 65% as the blockade has forced healthcare providers to modify treatment protocols and medications.

    “The situation is very serious at the moment. It was already in terms of acquiring supplies and medicines. But now it is intensifying and complicated with other aspects,” Dr. Forteza Saéz, an oncologist at Havana’s University of Medical Sciences, told La Jornada...

    #EndTheEmbargo
    #news #politics #USpol #LatinAmerica #Caribbean

  4. #Biliary #atresia affects newborns when bile ducts become blocked, leading to #liver damage that often requires #transplants—a new study evaluates an alternative to traditional open surgery.
    #Pediatric #Medical #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2025/11/med11252501

  5. #Vaccine & #PublicHealth experts said the statement from #HHS is a combination of #misinformation & exaggeration or #misrepresentation of scientific studies. [IOW #Lies]
    
“To make a blanket statement like that, I think that would go against the #science,” said Sean O’Leary, a #pediatric #infectious #diseases physician & chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ [#AAP] committee on infectious diseases.

    #Trump #RFKJr #eugenics #ConspiracyTheories #medicine

  6. While looking for #GeneExpression in tissues, specifically for #pediatric samples, I came across the #developmental #GTEx page, "a new effort to study development-specific genetic effects on gene expression from donors at each of 4 developmental windows".

    gtexportal.org/home/aboutdGTEx

    Exciting and important: for example the first age group, i.e. 0-2 years, in which our #Neuroblastoma patients often are, is mostly hard to compare to adult references and healthy controls.

    #OpenScience

  7. @jeff
    Thanks for posting. I follow the #maine media sites daily especially for anything health or medical related and haven't seen this yet.
    Apparently his mom is a #pediatric #picu doc fired by EMMC.
    He's a 15 year old college junior at #umaine #umo

    #northernlight #EMMC #bangor
    #slapp

  8. A #oncohistone, #Polycomb #SWISNF interplay provides a possible avenue for treatment of #pediatric gliomas: #BAF Complex Maintains #Glioma Stem Cells in Pediatric #H3K27M #Glioma - doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-2 @CD_AACR

  9. Thinking tonight about how two #pediatric #flu deaths in Guelph in 2018 made national news.

    Five seasons later, #ONgov won't even tell us how many deaths.

    "when CBC News asked other provinces...officials in Ontario declined to provide any statistics."

    cbc.ca/news/health/child-influ