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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has laid out its thinking on the ethical and physiological issues sponsors should consider when planning to run clinical pharmacology studies for pediatric ...

Several policies have been implemented in the US to promote the evidence-based use of therapeutics in pediatric populations. Under the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act of 2002 and the Pediatric ...

"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 ...

Children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare autosomal recessive disease that results in progressive muscle weakness and atrophy, can suffer the concerning consequences of dysphagia, which ...