Profile of Chronic Non-Epilepsy Drug Use in Children with Epilepsy: Single Centre Experience.

We determined the burden of concomitant chronic non-epilepsy drug use in 100 consecutive outpatient children with a diagnosis of epilepsy (mean (SD) age 7.38 (3.24) y), taking anti-seizure medications (ASM) for at least 6 months.

Factors Affecting Quality of Life in Adolescent Siblings of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Objective: To compare the quality of life (QoL) of adolescent siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD-Sibs) with siblings of typically developing children (TD-Sibs), and study the factors affecting the QoL.

Methods: Between 1 February, 2021 and 31 September, 2021, 40 children aged 10-18 years, whose sibling was suffering from ASD, were enrolled (Study group). 40 age- and sex-matched siblings of children with no clinically apparent neuro- developmental abnormality or behavioral problem were also enrolled (Control group).

Cell-Based Gene Therapy for b-Thalassemia.

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved betibeglogene autotemcel (beti-cel), the first cell-based gene therapy for adult and pediatric patients with b-thalassemia in August, 2022. This update details this and other novel therapies that have emerged in the treatment of b-thalassemia, apart from transfusion and iron chelation, with particular focus on newly approved gene therapy.