Parents and caregivers play a crucial role in advocating for their child’s healthcare needs, acting as their voice and actively participating in medical decisions, especially when the child is young ...

Investments in adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights are essential. The disproportionate burden they carry, from HIV to early unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, and intimate ...

Pediatric research leaders identified 10 high-promise areas likely to shape child health over the next 5 to 10 years, including genomics, mental health, vaccines, artificial intelligence, perinatal ...

Despite great advances in medicine and developmental science, pediatric health care has not evolved to address many of the current critical challenges to child and adolescent health. There is growing ...

Child psychiatry was not built to protect children of color. Understanding its racist origins is essential before parents of ...

Having a smartphone may be harmful for children younger than 12, according to a new study. The study published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics found that owning a smartphone during ...