Dr Rosa M Cruz Hernandez

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Study finds many children are prescribed off-label medication Researchers found that 18.5% of physician visits for US children up to age 18 involved at least one off-label prescription, according to a study in Pediatrics. Teens were most likely to get an off-label medication, but 83% of newborns who needed medication got an off-label drug, and girls, those wit...

Case report links junk food diet to blindness in teen A case study in the Annals of Internal Medicine described a 17-year-old boy in the UK with avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder who developed nutritional optic neuropathy, resulting in permanent blindness, after eating only Pringles potato chips, white bread, fries from a fish and chip shop, sa...