Pediatrics
News
Bedtime (and/or) stories
Dr. William G. Wilkoff discusses the importance of reading to young children and bedtime rituals.
News
HPV vaccination rates worst in white adolescents
Opinion
Grandparents and the new baby
Dr. Susan D. Swick and Dr. Michael S. Jellinek describe how grandparents may react to a new baby and tell you how to advise young parents to...
News
Childhood sleep disturbance linked to later psychosis
News
Evidence builds for benefits of exercise in pediatric MS
News
E-cigarettes precede tobacco smoking in ninth-graders
Ninth-graders who have used electronic cigarettes are much more likely than are nonusers to try regular cigarettes, cigars, and hookahs during the...
News
Cyberbullying greater depression trigger than traditional bullying
Conference Coverage
More alarms mean slower response in PICU, pediatric wards
Key clinical point: Nurses’ exposure to more nonactionable pediatric alarms was found to be correlated with significantly slower response time to...
Conference Coverage
S. aureus seen in 1% of pediatric CAP cases
Key clinical point: About 1% of children presenting to a hospital with community-acquired pneumonia had Staphylococcus aureus infections, which do...
News
Mood disorders affect length of stay, complication risk in pediatric pneumonia
Key clinical point: Pediatric pneumonia patients have a significantly longer length of hospital stay and a higher rate of complications when they...