pediatrics

Health By Meghana Keshavan

Study offers new clues for treating brain cancer in children

First Opinion By Ayanna Pressley and Carolyn B. Maloney

Children and families need resources to address trauma at its roots

First Opinion By Jason Kahn

Kids’ heart rates are rising as the pandemic drags on

First Opinion By Stephen Patrick

The lack of a national policy agenda for children during Covid-19 — and beyond — causes grave harm

First Opinion By Christopher M. Worsham and Anupam B. Jena

The curious link between kids’ birthdays and their getting the flu vaccine

First Opinion By Dorothy Novick

Telehealth makes me aspire to be a different kind of physician: the kind I used to be

Health By Andrew Joseph

A silver lining to the pandemic response? Doctors hope to see fewer cases of a polio-like condition that affects children

First Opinion By Jennifer Canvasser, Kurlen Payton, and Elizabeth Rogers

In the NICU, both parents are essential and need to be at their child’s bedside

Business By Elizabeth Cooney

‘One thing cancer patients don’t generally have is time’: New cancer research leader brings urgency to Sanofi

Biotech By Elizabeth Cooney

Startup Spotlight: Aiming to speed precision cancer therapies to children

First Opinion By Feda Almaliti

Life with an autistic child can be difficult. During a pandemic it can be grueling

First Opinion By Paula Magee

Child trauma is one of many unseen harms from shutting down America’s schools

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

Awaiting an FDA decision, Akili rolls out its video game for kids with ADHD under relaxed rules

First Opinion By Christopher Hartnick

How Instagram gave hope to a mother — and her daughter’s doctor

Health By Karen Weintraub

Her son died. Two decades later, she met the medical student who got his heart

Biotech By Adam Feuerstein

FDA approves the first treatment for peanut allergy, but commercial success is hardly assured

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

Will the FDA give the go-ahead to a prescription video game? The wait goes on, as new data come in

First Opinion By Gwen Nichols

Precision medicine has a blind spot: children with cancer

First Opinion By Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Diana B. Cutts, and Allison Bovell-Ammon

Cutting 700,000 Americans from SNAP will increase health costs

First Opinion By Maria Kefalas

Medicaid covers sick or dying children. But it takes ‘going to battle’ to get it

In the Lab By Associated Press

For babies born with HIV, start treatment right away, study says

First Opinion By Kathleen Bachynski, Lisa Kearns, and Arthur L. Caplan

Concussions, broken bones, and more: a week of football in the U.S.

First Opinion By Nancy Brown*

President Trump: Don’t fail America’s children on flavored e-cigarettes

Pharma By Ed Silverman

After backlash, Teva will resume supplies of a critical children’s cancer medicine

First Opinion By Nkeiruka Orajiaka

Some kids in pain need opioids. For doctors, that means walking a tightrope