#pediatric-care

#pediatric-care

If you have a kiddo between the ages of 10 to 18, I want you to listen up because you need to be prepared for your next pediatric visit. Your child is offered alone time with the doctor and it comes as a shock to some of these parents who have 9-year-olds or 10-year-olds. So, we like to prepare them.

A new face is lighting up hospitals and nursing homes across the country. It's an animated, cartoonish persona displayed on a digital screen roughly the size of an iPad, mounted on top of a robotic torso shaped like an elongated traffic cone. It slowly rolls around from place to place, cracking jokes with patients, making silly faces, and playing small games.

Rachel Castor recalls the shocking experience of her son being denied hospital admission during an asthma attack due to the closure of obstetric services by Bonner General Hospital.

Your child's healthcare will likely be impacted by the Big Beautiful Bill. Even if you are gainfully employed and you have private insurance. The Big Beautiful Bill has significant tax cuts. And if you decrease the money coming into the government, you also have to decrease the spending, and one of those cuts is coming at the expense of Medicaid.

Maimonides Health's Golf Classic Tournament raised almost $400,000 to support vital upgrades for the Pediatric Infusion Center, enhancing patient care and comfort.

Paul's intense reaction to imagined stimuli highlighted the significant role that psychological factors can play in managing physical conditions like asthma.

The latest data from the 2024 Nation's Report Card indicates that while math scores show slight improvements, reading proficiency, particularly among fourth-graders, is declining.

The current approach for transgender youth is to affirm gender identity, but the new report calls that approach 'fundamentally misguided' and claims it harms young patients.

When using aromatherapy with children, it can be a safe and effective complementary intervention for common pediatric concerns, requiring specific management and pediatric consultation.