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U.S. Advocacy Groups Declare National Emergency on Children’s Mental Health
Health professionals call on policymakers to address regulatory, financial, and technological challenges.
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AAP Recommends Screening All Children for Heart Problems
Around 2,000 Americans younger than age 25 die each year because of sudden cardiac death. -
Air Filters and Asthma
Children with asthma showed improved small airway mechanics following indoor filtration of particulates (2.5 µm and greater) using high-efficiency particulate air filtration devices. -
The Danger of ADHD Overdiagnosis
A growing concern about overdiagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adolescents and children demonstrates a need for a decisive answer to this concern. -
HHS Expands Mental Health Services Access for Young Patients
Agency designates funding for existing program that promotes behavioral health integration into pediatric primary care using telehealth. -
FDA, CDC Back COVID-19 Vaccine for Adolescents
The Pfizer/BioNTech solution will be available for Americans age 12 to 15 years. -
New Data on Pediatric Clinical Ethics Consults
Pediatric cases involve, at a minimum, three stakeholders: The patient, the parents, and the healthcare team. This decision-making triad can lead to a multitude of ethical quandaries.
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AAP Revises Guidelines to Improve Treatment of Children with Disabilities
Group says pediatricians can be advocates for this population, which is more likely to be subjected to abuse and neglect.
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No Evidence of Bias on Pediatric Ethics Rounds
Researchers compared sociodemographic factors between patients admitted to an academic children’s hospital during ethics rounds in the PICU, PCTU, and NICU in 2017 and 2018 who were identified as having ethics issues and all other patients admitted to those same units during the same period. The researchers expected racial and/or socioeconomic differences between the groups, with socially vulnerable patients disproportionately identified as having ethical issues on rounds. But they did not find this to be the case.
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Revised Policy on Organ Transplants for Children with Disabilities Targets Discrimination
Children with disabilities can be organ donors, contributing to the supply. Excluding these patients as organ recipients would not be fair. A new policy statement does not consider intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) completely irrelevant, but the authors do not consider IDD to be dispositive for listing decisions either.