Pediatrics
Feature
Babies are dying of syphilis. It’s 100% preventable.
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Commentary
Q&A: Meeting the challenge of giving COVID vaccines to younger kids
Pediatric experts share best practices for meeting the challenges of immunizing children aged 5-11 years.
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Can adjunct corticosteroids help in childrens’ eye and throat infections?
Prospective studies are needed to clearly identify which patients will have a strong benefit and which will not benefit.
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Health care unaffordability common for pregnant/postpartum women
The medical costs of having a child in the U.S. represents a significant financial liability for many families, even for those with insurance.
Opinion
Time to attack hypoactivity in our children
Our sedentary lifestyles are shortening our lives and launching our children into adulthood burdened with a raft of health risks they could...
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual youth miss out on health care
Adolescents identifying as LGB less likely to seek care for STDs, contraception, substance abuse.
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HCV in pregnancy: One piece of a bigger problem
“These data also enable us to step back a bit from HCV and look at the landscape of how the opioid crisis continues to grow in complexity and...
News from the FDA/CDC
Children and COVID: A look at the pace of vaccination
Nearly 6 months after the vaccine was approved for children aged 12-15 years, less than half are fully vaccinated.
News
FDA authorizes Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids
As soon as the CDC’s director signs off on those recommendations, children can get the shots, perhaps as early as Nov. 3.
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Fatal child poisonings linked to common cough and cold meds
The investigators point out that labeling changes do not seem to have protected vulnerable children.
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Clinicians underprescribe behavior therapy for preschool ADHD
Approximately 11% of young children with ADHD diagnoses were prescribed parent training in behavior management despite AAP recommendation.