Pediatrics
Feature
Why doctors keep monitoring kids who recover from mysterious COVID-linked illness
When Israel Shippy had MIS-C, his mother said there was nothing she could do to make him comfortable.
From the Journals
Expert clarifies guidance on adolescent polycystic ovary syndrome
Make clinical sense of a trio of guidelines for PCOS diagnosis and management in teen girls.
Commentary
What have we learned from COVID?
Work in primary care centers may see limitations using virtual medicine to meet the needs of all patients.
Commentary
Provide support in uncertain times
Listen to children’s or teens’ concerns and share information in developmentally appropriate ways. It is okay to not have all of the answers.
Commentary
COVID-19: A primary care perspective
Continued education, cooperation, and adaptation will be needed in the months ahead.
Commentary
The public’s trust in science
We still can’t reliably say how much protection a cloth mask provides.
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Early childhood overweight, obesity tied to high cardiometabolic syndrome risk
Parents, primary care providers have an opportunity to “flatten the curve” by addressing BMI increases early in life to delay or prevent obesity...
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Children rarely transmit SARS-CoV-2 within households
Most children with COVID-19 disease are infected inside family groups, but are not the initial transmitters.
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Delayed diagnoses seen in children during COVID-19
"Pediatricians on the frontline know what to expect with diabetes. Those children who would have come in late prior to the pandemic are now...
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Diagnostic criteria may miss some MIS-C cases, experts say
“There is concern that children meeting current diagnostic criteria for MIS-C are the ‘tip of the iceberg,’ and a bigger problem may be lurking...