Pediatrics News

Schools with universal free school meals saw greater meal participation, as well as improvements in attendance and suspensions, according to a systematic review published in JAMA Network Open.

The federal government will once again be distributing free at-home COVID-19 tests to households across the country starting next month, health officials announced Friday.

A healthy, 19-year-old noticed some pruritic, somewhat raised erythematous lesions on her left forearm (Figure 1). The middle lesion had an unusual linear appearance.

LGBTQ+ middle and high schoolers reported binge drinking more often and at younger ages than cisgender and heterosexual students, according to findings published in Pediatrics.

The FDA on Thursday announced that it has greenlit the updated COVID-19 vaccines manufactured by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, which the companies said should be available within days.

For the 2nd year in a row, HPV vaccination coverage among adolescents in the United States did not increase, according to data published Thursday by the CDC.

The CDC issued an advisory on Aug. 13 alerting health care providers and public health officials about the elevated activity of parvovirus B19 in the United States.

In new guidance, the Infectious Diseases Society of America suggested that immunocompromised patients take the monoclonal antibody pemivibart as pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent severe COVID-19.

Higher daily screen time for toddlers appeared to be associated with more intense expressions of anger as they got older, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Over 150 minutes of aerobic exercise a week following a concussion improved sleep quality in adolescents, study results published in The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation showed.