The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has pulled its recommendation for routine COVID-19 vaccination among healthy children and pregnant women, according to a social media post by ...

During the 2025 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Lea Widdice, MD, presented on "Know Your Role in OTC STI Testing." Widdice is director of the Adolescent Medicine Fellowship and associate ...

In 2021, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Association jointly declared a national emergency in child and adolescent ...

Published in European Journal of Paediatric Neurology . Investigators examined the validity and clinical feasibility of using a questionnaire developed in Denmark to screen youngsters for pediatric ...

Mycoplasma pneumoniae infects only humans and isa common bacterial cause of respiratory infections in pediatric patients.M pneumoniae spreads via airborne droplets after close contact with an infected ...

Susan Carnell, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and co-author of the "Concurrent and prospective associations ...

Lifestyle medicine and mental health management in pediatric primary care promote positive health and holistic well-being. Mental health challenges present differently at each developmental stage.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) views COVID-19 asan endemic virus. 1 Essentially it is circulating inperpetuityand we will witnessebbs and flows in prevalence.And certainly during ...

Experts address common misconceptions about the timing of central precocious puberty treatment initiation and discontinuation, highlighting research on outcomes for therapy started before age 7 and ...

Andrew Dauber, MD, MMSc, of Children's National Hospital joined us to talk PGHD and the role of the pediatrician when it comes to treatment. Andrew Dauber, MD, MSSc, Chief of Endocrinology at Children ...

Contemporary Pediatrics sat down with one of our newest editorial advisory board members: Vivian P. Hernandez-Trujillo, MD, FAAP, FAAAAI, FACAAI to discuss what led to her career in medicine and what ...

A pediatric indication for anacaulase-bcdb (NexoBrid; MediWound Ltd) has been approved by the FDA for eschar removal in deep partial- and/or full-thickness thermal burn patients aged newborn to 18 ...