Medication isn’t the enemy. But when we pause to understand why a child is struggling, we often find more effective paths to ...

A study of 130 children between the ages of 6 and 11 conducted by researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil has identified that obesity alone can cause immediate damage to ...

With the data of 530 patients from 28 institutions across 15 states, access to researchers to develop treatments adds to the ...

Neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and intellectual disability, represent a ...

Hypertension (elevated blood pressure) is the strongest modifiable risk factor of cardiovascular disease—the leading cause of death and disability worldwide—and a major contributor to chronic kidney ...

Their absence is a reminder that for children with cancer, time is never theoretical and the consequences of delay are irreversible. Each year, each month, and each day this bill stalled was another ...

In the modern world, the human body is besieged by a silent category of chemicals that interfere with one of its most ...

Families and schools must restrict ultra-processed snack foods and sweet beverages, monitor routine growth regularly, and refer children with accelerated weight gain or endocrine disorders for ...

Clinicians are seeing more cases of "agonorexia," when use of GLP-1 receptor agonists turns into disordered eating. ( New ...

Credit: Getty Images Children are presenting with complex, sometimes co-occurring, psychiatric disorders. Pediatric primary care providers play a vital role in educating and treating these patients ...

Increasing demand for pediatric subspecialists and declines in much of the subspecialty workforce size are turning long-standing discussions and water cooler conversations into intensified advocacy ...