Pediatrics

U.S. Surgeon General’s advisory highlights increasing concerns about social media’s effects on the mental health of children and adolescents.

A new position statement from the Canadian Paediatric Society shares how hospitals can support breastfeeding and human milk use in the NICU.

A new study looked at an online peer-to-peer mentoring program and found it helped kids feel more confident about their allergies.

Children can still be given puberty blockers in exceptional circumstances, the NHS said, and a clinical study on their impact on kids is due to start by next year.

RCT shows low-level red-light reduces myopia occurrence in children.

Scientists and physicians raised concerns early in the pandemic, pointing out that increased parental stress, COVID infections, reduced interactions with other babies and adults and changes to health care could affect child development.

The study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, examined the effect of the shortage of children’s ibuprofen and acetaminophen, which forced parents to crush up pills of the drugs intended for adults in order to treat their children.

Some important takeaways for physicians from a particular case during Alberta's recent pertussis outbreak.