Sickle cell patients should be better monitored for constipation prevention
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 10:01
in Health & Medicine
Not all patients with sickle cell disease receive laxatives after being treated with narcotics, despite recommendations from a collaborative panel of pediatric experts. These are the findings from a Nationwide Children's Hospital study examining patients from 29 pediatric hospitals, and appearing in Pediatric Blood & Cancer.