Becoming a parent is both joyful and stressful. The arrival of a baby signals not only a shift in lifestyle and priorities, but also the need to care for another person in a way you may not have ...

When I enter, “what is pediatrics?” into an image search engine, I get back dozens of stock photos with smiling physicians listening to beaming children’s hearts or looking in their ears. I love those ...

Each year, about 50,000 children under the age of 5 end up in emergency departments for poisoning after swallowing medicine ...

To say that raising healthy children is a full-time job is an understatement. So much goes into it — both love and time — and it's hard to know if you're covering all the bases. Yes, there are ...

Nienow, M.D., is a child abuse pediatrician and the medical director of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at San Diego Rady Children’s Hospital and an assistant clinical professor of ...

As anti-vaccine sentiment grows, pediatricians are facing a moral quandary: whether they should dismiss families who don’t vaccinate. ‘Dismissal’ policies, once discouraged by the medical ...

During the past year, approximately 1 in 7 children in the United States experienced child abuse or neglect, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The National Center on Shaken ...

Finding a pediatrician who understands child mental health is key to getting the right support for anxiety, ADHD or depression. Experts from UChicago Medicine share how to choose a doctor who will be ...