Laparoscopic surgery has been gaining popularity among pediatric surgeons over the past decade, but its safety and efficacy have not been fully determined. Furthermore, it has only become possible to ...

Bottle-feeding is associated with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS), according to a population-based case-control study. The effect is most pronounced in the children of older and multiparous women.

Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Physician at the Children's Hospital and at the Infants' Hospital; Visiting Physician at the Floating Hospital, Boston ...

(HealthDay News) — New research supports previous findings that erythromycin can increase the risk of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS). The research also indicates that azithromycin is ...

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