Practice Management News

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Multiple prevention tools against respiratory syncytial virus in children became available in the United States this year.

The monoclonal antibody nirsevimab prevented hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus-associated disease among infants “in conditions that approximated real-world settings,” researchers wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine.

As the pediatric mental health emergency continues, its effects on children continues to be a focus of research.

Efforts to raise flagging childhood vaccination rates increased in 2023 as new shots hit the market.

Hispanic, Black and Asian children have unmet mental health treatment needs compared with their white peers, according to a study in Pediatrics.

Below is a list of stories involving substance use and children that were published by Healio in 2023.

Rates of STDs continue to rise in the United States, with CDC data showing increases year after year.

Young children with respiratory syncytial virus were hospitalized at a higher rate in the years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic than in the six seasons before it, according to a study in JAMA Pediatrics.

As the pediatric obesity crisis continues, its effects on children continue to be examined and investigated.