April 1, 2025
More children in England moved into unhealthy weight categories during their time at primary school than improved their weight status, according to a report from the […]
March 31, 2025
In late 2018, a handful of pediatric specialists with an interest in the nascent field of enhanced recovery after surgery, more commonly known as ERAS, gathered […]
March 28, 2025
Pediatricians must disclose adverse events and medical errors to children and their families, according to an updated policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics. The […]
March 28, 2025
TOPLINE: Point-of-care urine dipstick demonstrated higher sensitivity (90.2%) and specificity (92.6%) than laboratory urinalysis for diagnosing urinary tract infection (UTI) in febrile infants aged 2-6 months. […]
March 27, 2025
March 25, 2025 – Girls are twice as likely as boys to be diagnosed with depression, and researchers in London have now uncovered clues as to […]
March 26, 2025
TOPLINE: Compared with no dexamethasone treatment, early administration of dexamethasone in children with pneumococcal meningitis lowered 30-day all-cause mortality by 50%, a new study showed. METHODOLOGY: […]
March 26, 2025
The number of neonatologists in the United States has grown 227% in the last three decades and the number of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) beds […]
March 24, 2025
TOPLINE: Invasive group B Streptococcus disease in early infancy increased the risk for psychiatric disorders through adolescence. Infants with meningitis showed a higher cumulative incidence for […]
March 21, 2025
In the early days of the pandemic, Becca Saul, MSN, ACNP, remembers the alarm she felt as obesity rates among children were climbing. “Everybody’s stuck at […]