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 […]
March 21, 2025
Point-of-care (POC) testing can significantly increase routine lipid screening of preteen patients, according to findings from a study published in Pediatrics. At the beginning of the […]
March 20, 2025
TOPLINE: An analysis of high school students from 1999 to 2021 showed teens with low-risk behaviors grew from about 40% in 1999 to nearly 60% by […]
March 20, 2025
When pediatric cardiac surgeons evaluate options for their smallest patients with the most severe cardiac birth defects, they don’t have a lot of good choices. For […]
March 19, 2025
Newborn screening for genetic metabolic diseases helps a portion of children stay healthy as they grow, but decompensation episodes still occur in the first weeks after […]
March 18, 2025
TOPLINE: Early adenotonsillectomy (AT) in children with mild sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) reduced total healthcare encounters by 32% and prescription medications by 48% over 12 months compared […]
March 17, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with some negative and some positive developmental health outcomes in kindergarteners, a cross-sectional cohort study of almost half a million US […]