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Signs of diabetes and other medical emergencies: Don’t delay care during the COVID outbreak

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Jessica Cerretani | Health and Parenting

Tags: coronavirus, diabetes, emergency medicine, endocrinology

Merlin Ladd had been home from school for about six weeks when his parents started to notice that something was off. At first, they thought that the 13-year-old — like many of us — was simply in a funk from being stuck inside due to the COVID-19 outbreak. “He seemed lethargic and out of sorts,” ... Read More

Tagged: coronavirus, diabetes, emergency medicine, endocrinology

Put your best face forward on Zoom calls: Tips from our pros

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Ellen Greenlaw | Clinical Care

Tags: coronavirus, telehealth

If you’re like most health care providers, your daily calendar has abruptly shifted from in-person meetings, visits, and consults to a virtual reality of Zoom calls and telemedicine visits. Whether you’re meeting with patients, presenting to colleagues at an online conference, or creating your own videos, you’ll want to make sure you’re putting your best ... Read More

Tagged: coronavirus, telehealth

COVID-19 and IEPs: Education for children with special needs

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Joanne Barker | Health and Parenting

Tags: autism spectrum disorder, coronavirus, developmental medicine

When Massachusetts shut down its public schools to prevent the spread of COVID-19, educators faced a huge challenge. With little time to prepare, school districts had to redesign classroom lesson plans for close to a million students. The interrupted school year has been especially hard on kids with individualized education programs (IEPs). An IEP is ... Read More

Tagged: autism spectrum disorder, coronavirus, developmental medicine

Radiology of COVID-19 infection in children: Imaging findings and recommendations

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Alice McCarthy | Clinical Care, Specialty Care

Tags: coronavirus, diagnostics, imaging, research

Key takeaways:· Lung images in children with COVID-19 show unique features, including the halo sign.· Chest X-ray and CT images differ significantly from early to late infection.· New imaging guidelines recommend when to perform imaging studies on children with COVID-19. As more children become infected with the coronavirus causing COVID-19, lung imaging shows that the ... Read More

Tagged: coronavirus, diagnostics, imaging, research

Disparities in travel time to COVID-19 testing sites may bias case estimates

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Nancy Fliesler | Data Science, Research

Tags: coronavirus, disease surveillance, informatics, public health

As the U.S. economy begins to reopen after two months of lockdown, states and counties are using local data on COVID-19 incidence to inform their plans. But a new analysis highlights an inconvenient truth. Geographic access to COVID-19 testing sites is as uneven as access to health care overall, meaning that local estimates of COVID-19 ... Read More

Tagged: coronavirus, disease surveillance, informatics, public health

Tips for getting through the rest of this school year — and possibly next

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Ellen Greenlaw | Health and Parenting

Tags: coronavirus

If you’re like most parents, you’re not trained to be a teacher or a tutor. And yet, many parents are finding themselves in these roles since schools closed in March. For many, it’s a role that can be fraught with frustration and guilt. If you don’t make sure your child keeps up with schoolwork, will ... Read More

Tagged: coronavirus

Cancer and COVID-19: Ethics guidelines for resource allocation

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Alice McCarthy | Ethics/Policy, Our Community

Tags: cancer, coronavirus, research

Main findings: Hospitals should create guidelines in advance to ensure cancer patients are fairly represented in possible resource allocation decisions — in COVID-19 and other emergencies.A cancer diagnosis should be considered as any other underlying health condition.Decisions about distributing limited resources should not be made by a patient’s physician. As the COVID-19 pandemic began surging ... Read More

Tagged: cancer, coronavirus, research

Taking care of our community during COVID-19 and beyond

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Lisa D. Ellis | Our Community

Tags: community health, coronavirus, government relations, health equity, martha eliot

Although COVID-19 has affected the health of most children less acutely than adults, many young people who live in the communities surrounding Boston Children’s Hospital are experiencing the virus’s impact in other troubling ways as their families struggle with food insecurity and are having trouble meeting many other basic needs. “Right now, there’s been a ... Read More

Tagged: community health, coronavirus, government relations, health equity, martha eliot

Cancer won’t stop me, and neither will COVID-19

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Ben Lepper | Patient Stories

Tags: cancer, coronavirus, leukemia

Most people my age look at COVID-19 as a burden on their everyday lives of seeing friends, hanging out, and going to college. I see it differently. As an active cancer patient being treated for T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), I am immunocompromised. This puts me at especially high risk for contracting COVID-19, and my ... Read More

Tagged: cancer, coronavirus, leukemia

Tracking an organism’s development, cell by cell

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Nancy Fliesler | Basic/Translational, Research

Tags: aging, biomarkers, blood, cellular and molecular medicine, genetics and genomics, hematology, laboratory tools, stem cells

A new mouse model allows scientists to track every cell in the body — from the embryo stage until adulthood. The system is the first of its kind and should yield a greater understanding of development, aging, and disease. Scientists described it last week in the journal Cell. “The dream of many developmental biologists for ... Read More

Tagged: aging, biomarkers, blood, cellular and molecular medicine, genetics and genomics, hematology, laboratory tools, stem cells