Child Health

An updated AAP policy statement outlines the impact of climate change on children’s health and offers related recommendations for the medical and government sectors.

Individuals diagnosed with a personality disorder benefited from interventions delivered in community or outpatient settings, with all therapeutic approaches demonstrating similar efficacy, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

Prenatal exposure to topiramate, valproate and select duotherapies was associated with increased risk for autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability, according to a study published in JAMA Neurology.

Results showed that compared with no sport participation, adolescents who participate in team sports experience fewer mental health difficulties, while those who compete in individual sports experience more mental health difficulties.

Pfizer and BioNTech said Thursday that they have submitted a request to the FDA for an emergency use authorization of their COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 to 11 years.

From 1990 to 2019, an estimated 560,203 children were treated in United States EDs for injuries that were sustained when a piece of furniture or TV tipped over on them, a retrospective data analysis showed. Among them, 575 had died.

A C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health demonstrated that one in four adolescents in middle and high school knows a peer with depression, and one in 10 knows a peer who has committed suicide.

Children whose fathers have poor mental health are more than twice as likely also to have poor mental health, according to findings published in Health Equity.

A maternal age of 32 years or older is significantly associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, including the formation of coronary artery lesions, and in cases of a maternal age of 35 years of older, IV immunoglobulin resistance, among offspring with Kawasaki disease, according to data published in Pediatric Rheumatology.