Pediatrics News

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance forecasted that the global supply of oral cholera vaccine is likely to remain limited through 2025 if current outbreak trends continue.

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, has issued an advisory urging for more actions to ensure safer social media use in youth to limit potential mental health risks.

New HIV infections in the United States declined by around 12% from 2017 to 2021, led by large decreases among young people, according to CDC data published Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO — Providing educational resources to people who serve as authority figures in the lives of children and young people may enable prevention and earlier treatment of mental illness, a presenter here said.

With the country in the midst of a national emergency in pediatric mental health, we spoke with Marian Earls, MD, chair of the AAP’s council on healthy mental and emotional development, about the crisis and the resources available to pediatricians caring for patients with mental health issues.

SAN FRANCISCO — In this video exclusive from the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting, Emily Rubin, LICSW, MSW, MA, discusses a unique support program for families with a child dealing with mental illness.

A 16-month-old girl presents with a painful neck mass and fever. Her mother states that she has always had a “fullness” in the front of her neck, which suddenly increased in size.

An FDA advisory committee on Thursday voted in favor of a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine that would be administered to pregnant people to protect their infants.

Children are falling far behind adults when it comes to testing and treatment for HIV, according to a new study published in Pediatrics.

A large study found that routine use of probiotics in neonatal ICUs reduced necrotizing enterocolitis but not mortality or sepsis in very-low-birth-weight infants, and the benefit was smaller than demonstrated by other studies.