Explore essential menstrual product options and education for adolescents, addressing safety, comfort, and personal preferences in menstrual health. Patient preferences and skills will likely ...

Jon Farber, MD, shares his thoughts on the efficacy of laser therapy for temporal lobe epilepsy. A retrospective study in 19 children with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy who underwent laser ...

Discover essential nutrition tips for young athletes to enhance performance, hydration, and recovery before, during, and after sports activities. As team sports ramp up this fall, pediatricians can ...

Combination vaccines enhance childhood immunization by reducing the number of shots, improving adherence, and potentially increasing overall vaccination rates. In 1999, the American Academy of ...

Serial amnioinfusions enabled lung development and live birth in most pregnancies complicated by fetal renal failure and anhydramnios. Survival beyond birth remains dependent on intensive neonatal ...

Pediatric experts share how to boost RSV prevention—listen to parents, tailor This episode focuses on the longer-term, relationship-based approach to overcoming vaccine hesitancy as it applies to RSV ...

Alesia McKeown, PhD, of Roche Diagnostics discusses why pertussis is missed in children and adolescents and how PCR testing can help. Pertussis (whooping cough) is often regarded as a ...

Adolescents average 50 minutes of smartphone use during school nights ...

National pediatric and infectious disease groups convened a measles summit as US cases reached the highest level in 35 years. Modeling data suggest removing universal hepatitis B birth-dose ...

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.

Match the photographs of the rashes with the correct diagnosis. Answers: 1. C; 2. E; 3. A; 4. B; 5. D; 6. F"Diaper rash" is the most common skin disease affecting infants in the western world. It is ...

Effective immediately, the updated US childhood vaccine schedule will reduce the number of recommended vaccines for all children to 11 diseases, down from 18. On January 5, 2026, the CDC updated the ...