Pediatrics News

BOSTON — Adults who experienced BMI or weight gains between age 2 years and 5 years, as well as after age 11 years, faced increased odds for high obstructive sleep apnea risk, according to data presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

An electronic health record order set that preselected shorter antibiotic courses for acute otitis media cut antibiotic use for pediatric ear infections in half, according to findings presented at IDWeek.

In our prior blog post, we discussed the frequent need to separate, from a legal and financial perspective, the real property from the practice in order to consummate a practice transaction with a private equity buyer.

A significant number of Medicaid-insured infants infected with HIV in the first year of their life did not receive postnatal antiretroviral prophylaxis, a study presented at IDWeek showed.

The proportion of children dying from sepsis is lower than it was 20 years ago, but Black children are still at a significantly higher risk than white children, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

LOS ANGELES — Healio is on-site again for IDWeek, which is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from Oct. 16-19.

Upgrading pediatric readiness in EDs would reduce the deaths of pediatric patients by almost half, according to study results published in Health Affairs.

One in five high school students in the United States reported being unfairly disciplined at school, according to findings published in MMWR.

Vaccination coverage among kindergarteners in the United States is still declining from pre-pandemic levels, and some states are reporting exemption rates of more than 5%, according to the latest CDC data.

Adolescents with obesity prescribed a GLP-1 receptor agonist are less likely to have suicidal ideation or a suicide attempt than those with obesity treated with lifestyle intervention, according to new data.