Pediatrics News

Although screen use before bedtime did not affect sleep onset or duration in children, using screens in bed not only impacted sleep quality but was also associated with cyberbullying and psychological distress, research showed.

Youth with chronic pain experience anxiety and depression symptoms more often and more intensely than their peers without chronic pain, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Physicians can use social media to combat medical misinformation that spreads through it, according to a speaker at the Osteopathic Medical Education Conference.

Adolescent and young adult women who had prediabetes before becoming pregnant had a higher risk for gestational diabetes and adverse maternal outcomes than those with normal glycemic levels, researchers reported.

Lumacaftor/ivacaftor showed improvements in several measures in children aged 2 to 5 years homozygous for F508del-CFTR over 96 weeks, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Among school-age children, residence near more green spaces in early childhood positively impacted lung function, according to results published in Environment International.

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Without improvements to access and delivery of health care, more than 39 million people may die because of antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections between 2025 and 2050, according to new estimates.

The FDA announced in a press release that it has approved Miplyffa to treat neurological symptoms associated with Niemann-Pick disease type C in patients aged 2 years and older.

From 2010 to 2020, less than half of perinatally exposed infants were tested for hepatitis C virus, according to a study, but experts are hopeful that new early testing guidelines will ensure more infants are screened and treated.