Explore essential menstrual product options and education for adolescents, addressing safety, comfort, and personal preferences in menstrual health. Patient preferences and skills will likely ...

Combination vaccines enhance childhood immunization by reducing the number of shots, improving adherence, and potentially increasing overall vaccination rates. In 1999, the American Academy of ...

Jon Farber, MD, shares his thoughts on the diagnosis of slipped capital femoral epiphysis. The diagnosis of slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) in children whose presenting symptom is knee pain ...

Jon Farber, MD, shares his thoughts on the efficacy of laser therapy for temporal lobe epilepsy. A retrospective study in 19 children with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy who underwent laser ...

Serial amnioinfusions enabled lung development and live birth in most pregnancies complicated by fetal renal failure and anhydramnios. Survival beyond birth remains dependent on intensive neonatal ...

Pediatric experts share how to boost RSV prevention—listen to parents, tailor This episode focuses on the longer-term, relationship-based approach to overcoming vaccine hesitancy as it applies to RSV ...

Adolescents average 50 minutes of smartphone use during school nights ...

Medical providers, particularly pediatricians, are often the first to learn that their patients have been intentionally harming themselves. Because NSSI, by nature, is not suicidal, it should not be ...

Despite the growing involvement of fathers in their children’s lives, there persists a lack of focus on fathers in pediatric care. Updated guidelines can help pediatricians to better engage fathers in ...

At the 2025 NAPNAP Conference in Chicago, Jessica Spruit, DNP, CPNP-AC, FAANP, discussed the AAP's first clinical practice guideline on opioid prescribing.

The latest update to the HEEADSSS psychosocial interview for adolescents includes new questions on electronic media use in addition to its time-tested strategies for identifying the critical stressors ...

Discover mental health screening tools for the pediatric primary care provider. The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners called to prioritize integrating pediatric mental health into ...