More Evidence Maternal COVID Vaccination Safe for Newborns Lower mortality rate, fewer brain lesions in vaccine-exposed neonates, study found Feb 06, 2024
Health Effects of Diabetes Remission; High-Deductible Plans for Cancer Patients Also in TTHealthWatch: USPSTF weighs in on screening for language disorders or delays in kids Feb 03, 2024 podcast
Ibuprofen Fails Another Crack at Reducing Preemie Lung Issues and Deaths A therapy to help babies with hole in heart is still lacking Jan 24, 2024
Maternal Vaccination Lowers Odds of Respiratory Distress in COVID-Exposed Infants Preterm, COVID-exposed infants with respiratory distress had marked inflammatory responses Jan 24, 2024
How Is Our Prefrontal Cortex Faring in this Toxic Era? A less toxic future would be a saner choice Jan 23, 2024
Newborns Better Protected With 3 Doses of Maternal COVID Vaccine And cord anti-S antibody levels were the same for preterm and full-term pregnancies, study shows Jan 19, 2024
Azithromycin at Routine Visits Fails to Prevent Infant Deaths in Africa Effort aimed at reducing the potential for antimicrobial resistance showed no benefit Jan 17, 2024
Are Pediatricians Hesitant About IUDs for Adolescents? An AAP policy had little impact on pediatricians' practices around IUDs, subdermal implants Jan 08, 2024
Pediatric RSV Led to Higher Hospitalization Rates Than Omicron or Flu Study underscores urgent need to use preventive measures Dec 26, 2023
USPSTF Draft Calls for Lifestyle Shift -- Not Meds -- for Kids With Obesity Behavioral interventions should be main approach; insufficient data to back pharmacologic therapy Dec 12, 2023
Very Early ART Can Result in Sustained HIV Suppression in Neonates Newborns should be diagnosed "super early" and receive ART in maternity ward, experts say Dec 11, 2023
Giving Oropharyngeal Surfactant at Birth Is No Help to Preemies Increased rates of pneumothorax emerged among newborns treated prophylactically Dec 11, 2023
High Blood Pressure in Babies Linked to Adult Atherosclerosis Is BP screening starting before age 3 years warranted? Dec 04, 2023
Very Young Children in HIV Treatment More Likely to Die PEPFAR data show particularly high risk for infants despite antiretroviral treatment Nov 30, 2023
Giving DHA to Preemies Doesn't Improve Behavioral Outcomes Later On At age 5, kids born at Nov 20, 2023
Three Ways to Protect Infants From RSV This Winter Paul Offit, MD, discusses vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and the importance of breastfeeding Nov 17, 2023 video
We're Failing to Treat Early Psychosis Symptoms in Black Children Early intervention is the best way to avoid dire consequences Nov 14, 2023
Trump Wants Dealers Executed; School Closures and Suicide; Double Uterus Pregnancy Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by MedPage Today staff Nov 13, 2023
CDC: Infant Syphilis Spike Continues Agency sees 10-fold increase in rates over the past decade Nov 07, 2023
Vape Use May Have Turned a Corner Among High Schoolers Yet just under half of those who tried e-cigs still report using them in national survey Nov 02, 2023
AAP Warns on So-Called Toddler Formulas Beverages are "not nutritionally complete" and not meant for kids with major illness, report says Oct 21, 2023
Should Young Kids Be Screened for High Cholesterol? Pediatric cardiologists and family medicine practitioners don't see eye-to-eye Oct 17, 2023
I Lost My Baby Brother to RSV, Others Don't Have To Two new tools can prevent tens of thousands of hospitalizations and deaths Oct 16, 2023
Vaccination Tied to Lower Risk of Long COVID in Children Findings may encourage increased pediatric vaccine uptake, researcher says Oct 15, 2023
Breastfeeding Amps Up Maternal Flu Vax Protection for Infants Association strongest with exclusive breastfeeding Oct 14, 2023
Is It Time to Add Universal CMV Screening for Newborns? While not quite as sensitive as saliva PCR testing, dried blood spot testing has promise Oct 13, 2023
A Framework to Communicate With Pregnant Patients About the RSV Vaccine A values-based decision-making framework is key Oct 03, 2023
Preoperative Algorithm Might Halve Unnecessary Oophorectomies in Children Researchers point to potential for reduction in lifelong consequences Oct 03, 2023
COVID Vax in Pregnancy Protects Young Infants Against Omicron But only about one-fourth of pregnant women reported getting the vaccine Oct 02, 2023
New Two-Tier System to Weed Out Some Pediatric Heart Surgery Centers Low-volume congenital and pediatric heart programs may be cut in national reorganization Sep 29, 2023
CDC Advisors Endorse Maternal RSV Vax to Protect Newborns Vast majority of infants will not need monoclonal antibody if mom has received the vaccine Sep 22, 2023
Pediatric Allergic March Supported by Nationwide EHR Data Constellation of comorbid allergic conditions common among children Jul 26, 2023
Low-Dose Atropine Eye Drops Flop for Slowing Kids' Myopia Differences in participant race, ethnicity may contribute to conflicting trial findings Jul 13, 2023
Subclinical CVD Detected in Kids With Higher Arsenic Burden Local Superfund site may contribute to inorganic arsenic exposure Jun 30, 2023
ACIP Endorses 20-Valent Pneumococcal Vaccine for Kids New high-risk conditions added as well, including chronic kidney disease and asthma Jun 23, 2023
Most Parents Support Mental Health Screening for Their Kids, Study Shows According to multinational survey, 65% of respondents prefer annual screening Jun 20, 2023
Better Weight Outcomes for Kids With Family-Based Approach in Primary Care Program worked better than usual care, but was less effective than expected Jun 13, 2023
High-Dose Vitamin D3 May Be Protective Against Some Childhood Behavioral Problems Infants given 1,200 IUs daily had less risk of internalizing problems by age 7 May 19, 2023
FDA Extends Trikafta Approval to Even Younger Cystic Fibrosis Patients Patients ages 2 to 5 years now eligible for the triple therapy Apr 27, 2023
Fuzzy Future for Red Light Therapy in Myopia Prevention, Despite Positive Trial Reduced incidence of myopia, smaller myopic shifts observed in kids Apr 27, 2023