BOSTON — A New York law that required cannabis products be sold in child-resistant packaging did not reduce the number of accidental ingestions among kids, according to a presenter at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting.
As more states have legalized recreational marijuana, exposures among children have increased rapidly, especially edible cannabis products.
“The most serious symptoms associated with pediatric cannabis consumption are hypoventilation, unresponsiveness/lethargy and seizure-like activity,” Annamarie Fernandes, MD, FAAP, FACP, assistant professor of medicine and

BOSTON — Children with multiple complex medical conditions receive more than 5 times the amount of antibiotics compared with healthy children and double that of the elderly, according to a large study.
“Antibiotics are the most commonly prescribed class of medications in children,” Kathleen D. Snow, MD, MPH, instructor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital, told attendees at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting. “Unfortunately, little research has been done to identify which specific patient populations are at the highest risk for antibiotic exposure.”
Snow and colleagues