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Social Media’s impact on children

October 24, 2025 cell phones, children, Instagram, parents, Social Media, TikTok, YouTube

For every hour that teens spend on social media each day, their risk of depression increases by 13%. That’s a big deal, especially since the

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A culturally sensitive approach for pediatricians to navigate co-sleeping conversations with families

June 27, 2025 children, Co-sleeping, cultural humility, pediatricians, safe sleep, safe sleep guidelines, SIDS, sleep-related infant deaths, sudden infant death syndrome, Sudden Unexpected Infant Death, SUID

In the ICU as a pediatric resident physician, I cared for an infant whose life was forever altered by a co-sleeping accident. Now ventilator and

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Renewing hope: A global push to improve neonatal outcomes

May 30, 2025 children, Global Health, neonatal, neonatal mortality, Newborn, newborns

Each year, about 2.3 million newborns die worldwide: an average of four newborn deaths every minute. In 2000, the United Nations launched the Millennium Development

A Band-Aid being applied to a child's arm after they were given a vaccine.

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The Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program: Ensuring every child is protected

February 14, 2025 Advocacy, children, immunization rates, public health, Vaccines, Vaccines for Children

A closer look at the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program, which ensures all children in the U.S. have access to life-saving vaccines.

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Measles on the rise

May 17, 2024 children, measles, MMR vaccine, vaccine

On March 18, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Advisory warning of an increase in both global and U.S. measles cases.

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Healthcare on wheels: Using mobile clinics to reach children all over Houston

April 26, 2024 children, Houston, medically underserved, mobile healthcare

Almost 12% of all children in Houston are uninsured or have never seen a healthcare provider, but a mobile healthcare program at Baylor and Texas

A researcher placing specimens into a machine.

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Searching for equity in payer coverage of genetic tests

January 26, 2024 children, genetic test, Medicaid, pediatric patients, private insurance, Rare Diseases

Despite the advancement of clinical genetic tests to diagnose rare diseases and the benefits of identifying a genetic diagnosis for pediatric patients and their families,

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How to beat dyslipidemia at its own game: A pediatric tale

December 8, 2023 cardiovascular disease (CVD), children, dyslipidemia, lipid, pediatric dyslipidemia, pediatricians, pediatrics

There is no question that dyslipidemia – abnormally elevated cholesterol or fats (lipids) in the blood – in childhood leads to early atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease