Pediatrics News

Dallas-based health care consulting group Merritt Hawkins released its annual survey of how much revenue various physician specialties contribute to hospitals, and for the first time ever, primary care physicians topped average revenues generated by other specialties surveyed.

Camila Mateo laughs with her roommates, Julie Endrizzi and Steve Situ before their graduation from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons on Wednesday.

TRENTON - Moved by the plight of a toddler with a seizure disorder, two Union County lawmakers announced today they have drafted legislation that would revise the state's medical marijuana law to make it easier for children who qualify for the program to benefit.

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A few columns ago , while attempting to explain why toddlers do crazy things, I mentioned that my 21-month-old son likes to line up his toy cars over and over and over again.

Dr. Ellen Rome is a board-certified pediatrician who was among the first in the U.S. to be board certified in adolescent medicine.

As a practicing pediatrician with more than 22 years of experience, a recent article printed in FLORIDA TODAY about nurse practitioners caught my attention.

Stronger guidelines are urgently needed to control Canada's mounting consumption of antipsychotic drugs, including potent pills given to children as young as preschoolers, experts say.

Medical specialists, gynecologists, and pediatricians are weighing in on how the government-subsidized IVF/in vitro fertilization program has been working out three years after its creation.

In her lecture "Hacking Healthcare: How Makers can Save Medicine" at the 2013 Bay Area Maker Faire, Dr.

Many parents may be at a loss on how to talk to their kids about the tragedy in Oklahoma.

A new guide for health-care workers who diagnose mental-health problems casts a wide net in the hope of helping more people avoid suffering and suicide.

Seat belts in cars were not widely used, much less required. A kid wearing a bike helmet would have been mocked mercilessly.

I'm finding it hard not to compare my child to others her age. Reese is healthy, communicative, active and right where she needs to be developmentally.

Half a million premature babies are born in the U.S. every year. To continue the development that should have happened in the womb, many spend their first few months of life in intensive care.

The 68-year-old pediatrician is alleged to have had inappropriate sexual contact with a 5-year-old girl outside of his medical practice.

When Carter Rosengarten was 2, he gripped a Matchbox car and, mimicking the Kung Fu Panda, whacked his mother across the face.

Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS , medical director for the Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition at Nationwide Children's Hospital, was recently named as a member of the Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight Steering Committee by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

If your 10-year-old has acne , rest assured he or she is not alone. According to treatment guidelines published this month in the journal Pediatrics, acne is common in children ages 7 to 12.

A Spring Hill pediatrician said she has some sympathy as the Tennessee Department of Children's Services tries to sort through claims about children's welfare.