* Abbreviations: AAP — : American Academy of Pediatrics CDC — : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 — : coronavirus disease 2019 Vaccines are safe and effective in protecting individuals and populations against infectious diseases. New vaccines are evaluated by a long-standing, rigorous, and transparent process through the US Food and Drug…
A 37-year-old gravida 7, para 2-0-4-2 woman presented for outpatient consultation at 12 weeks’ gestation because of a history of myasthenia gravis (MG). After the…
A 9-month-old girl is brought by her parents for an initial pediatric dermatology consultation for presumed atopic dermatitis. The parents report subtle “hardening” of the…
A full-term female infant is transferred from an outside hospital at 3 days of age for further evaluation of a diffuse maculopapular and nodular rash…
Abstract. The incidence of diabetes in children and adolescents has increased during the past decades, with a 1.9% increase per year in type 1 diabetes…
Diana Montoya-Williams, MD, MSHP, is an attending neonatologist in the division of Neonatology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), a physician scientist in CHOP’s PolicyLab,…
For the neurodevelopmentally vulnerable adolescent brain, any amount of alcohol use has risks and consequences and may lead to serious harm. Although overall rates of…
A 6-day-old female infant is brought to a pediatric emergency department (ED) at a community hospital because of respiratory distress. The infant was previously doing…
An 8-year-old girl with a history of congenital hypothyroidism presents to her pediatric endocrinologist with a concern for short stature and small hands. Congenital hypothyroidism…
Abstract. Vaccine hesitancy became an important topic in the public discourse and academic research during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its history is as long as…
A 16-year-old girl with no significant medical history presents with 5 days of vulvar pain and dysuria. She endorses a constant, sharp, burning labial pain.…
