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Though obesity treatment is a critical need, there are no long-term data on the use of weight-loss drugs in adolescents.
Connecticut is now participating in a new federal program aimed at expanding treatment access for patients with sickle cell ...
Back to school is around the corner, and pediatricians want parents to know how important it is to schedule vaccinations.
For decades, medical professionals debated whether a common antiviral medication used to treat flu in children caused ...
"Among the major world religious traditions, none include scriptural or doctrinal guidelines that preclude adherents from being vaccinated," AAP says. "Are we in some dystopian rerun of 2020?" ...
Rates of routine blood culture (BC) testing for uncomplicated infections in children had no significant effect on length of ...
For doctors unsure whether pediatrics is right for them, a rotation can be an eye-opening experience. That's what it was for Dr. Zarina Norton.
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with American Academy of Pediatrics President Lee Savio Beers about the mounting pressure to consider emergency use authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children under 12.