Safe Storage to Save Lives: The Role of Guns in Adolescent Suicide
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for children, adolescents and young adults ages 10 to 24. Roughly 7% to 8% of adolescents attempt suicide each year and 17% report significant suicidal ide...
9 Jan 202436min
Prioritizing Pediatric Readiness: How Proper Preparedness Saves Young Lives
One goal in our healthcare improvement is to achieve equitable access to high quality emergency care for kids, regardless of where that child is physically located. Children have unique characteristic...
2 Jan 202434min
A Happy and Healthy Holiday Season from Charting Pediatrics
2023 has been an impactful year. We kicked it off by continuing to cover topics under our mental health series. The rise of teen substance abuse and addiction, the intersection between physical and me...
26 Des 202317min
Patient Information in a Changing Legal Landscape: Cures Act, Open Notes and Electronic Medical Records
In 2021, federal rules from the 21st Century Cures Act mandated that most clinical notes be made available in real-time, online and free of charge to patients. This practice, commonly known as "open n...
19 Des 202331min
Critical Vaccine Communication: How Do We Shift Immunization Hesitancy?
Vaccines are so successful that many people have never seen the diseases they prevent, resulting in misperceptions that vaccines are not needed. While anti-vaccination sentiment and misinformation inc...
12 Des 202328min
Specifically Specialized Treatment: How Precision Medicine is Revolutionizing What's Possible
For most of our careers, our treatments for genetic -based diseases have been supportive, not curative. Our medication recommendations for patients have been based on the expected response of the aver...
5 Des 202335min
The Power of Pediatric Trainees: How They Can Help Shape Medicine
Our medical community stretches far and wide, with experts that wear many hats. One prevalent group making an impact on the future of childhood medicine is our pediatric trainees. In 1989, the America...
28 Nov 202321min
Remarkable RSV Vaccines: Is This the End of the RSV Burden As We Know It?
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is one of the most common causes of childhood respiratory illness, resulting in annual outbreaks among all age groups. In the United States, an estimated 60,000 to 80...
21 Nov 202340min
