Joshua Fitch is the senior editor for Contemporary Pediatrics. He joined the brand in March of 2023 as an editor before being promoted to senior editor in January 2024. Fitch graduated from Youngstown ...

Though revisions have been made to the emergency use authorization (EUA), the FDA stated in a press release that the EUA will continue to authorize emergency use in children aged 12 years and older ...

For most teenagers, a psychosocial history is at least as important as the physical exam. This essential psychosocial history can be obtained using the HEEADSSS method of interviewing adolescents. The ...

Polyps in the colon may be either harmless or precancerous. In both cases, symptoms are usually frightening to patients and parents. Four of the most common diagnoses in children with colonic polyps ...

“[He] was a remarkably fine, healthy child when he was born, and continued to thrive till he was 4 months old. It was at this time that I first observed slight bobbings of the head forward…these ...

Some parents request oral vitamin K, which is used in various regimens in several European nations (Table). However, there is not a licensed oral form of vitamin K for infant prophylaxis available in ...

A full-term male infant was born at 40.3 weeks gestational age via vaginal delivery to a 29-year-old single G6 P30204 mother with limited prenatal care (3 visits) and short interval pregnancy. The ...

Circumcision may be the oldest known surgical procedure. For the past 100 years, it has consistently been the most frequently performed surgery in the world. 1 The procedure is performed on almost all ...

Finding an acceptable alternative to breast milk has proved to be a complicated quest that continues today with an ever-growing assortment of modified and specialized infant formulas. If you are a ...

Medical providers, particularly pediatricians, are often the first to learn that their patients have been intentionally harming themselves. 1,2 Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is defined as directly ...

A complete physical exam, with emphasis on an accurate blood pressure reading, and, possibly, a pelvic exam, should follow the history. Because fear of a first pelvic exam has been shown to be a ...

Alopecia areata (AA) is a chronic, immune-mediated disorder that presents as sudden-onset, nonscarring hair loss frequently in childhood or adolescence (Figure 1).Hair loss in AA is typically focal or ...