Pediatrics
News
Consider toys as culprits in children with contact allergies
Cell phones were the most common electronics associated with contact dermatitis.
News
Antibiotic resistance rises among pneumococcus strains in kids
Evolution is at work in the emergence of vaccine-resistance serotypes not included in the PCV-13 vaccine.
News from the FDA/CDC
Children bearing the brunt of declining flu activity
CDC invokes the 2009 pandemic when referring to the latest data on pediatric deaths and hospitalizations.
News
Community-wide initiative ups teen LARC adoption sixfold
The approach spread education and training broadly among community workers and in medical settings.
News from the FDA/CDC
Drop in flu activity suggests season may have peaked
News
Adolescent obesity linked with midlife cancer risk
Investigators say teen obesity could be an important intervention target for subsequent cancer prevention.
Conference Coverage
Critical care admissions up for pediatric opioid poisonings
ORLANDO – Attempted suicide has represented an increasingly large proportion of these severe poisonings.
News
Infection with 2019 novel coronavirus extends to infants
Nine infants with at least one infected family member have tested positive for the 2019 novel coronavirus.
Opinion
Psychopharmacology for aggression? Our field’s ‘nonconsensus’ and the risks
News from the FDA/CDC
Flu increases activity but not its severity
A very red map now has 41 states at the highest level of influenza activity.