Lack of evidence on risk of ionizing radiation for common pediatric swallow study causes unfortunate variability in how clinicians conduct it; a Medical University of South Carolina researcher ...

Background and aims: Coordination of breathing and swallowing must be precise for maintenance of airway protection and prevention of aspiration. The phases of respiration are interrupted during ...

More than half a million children are diagnosed with swallowing problems each year. The gold standard for diagnosing swallowing problems is the videofluoroscopic swallow study, also known as the ...

"Our study demonstrated that profound impairments in swallowing are extremely common within the first year of life. This of course has tremendous clinical relevance as it highlights the importance of ...

October 5, 2010 (San Francisco, California) — Use of a pharyngeal electrical stimulation device (VitalStim, Empi Inc.) improves swallowing in preterm and term infants in the neonatal intensive care ...

Mary Carmack is a researcher in the Pediatric Therapeutics and Regulatory Science Initiative in the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts.

The rate of the number of young children who accidentally swallow nicotine pouches has soared in recent years, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, found ...