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A new study reveals that artificial intelligence (AI) can significantly improve the accuracy of estimating child physical abuse (PA) among children seen in emergency departments. The research, which ...

Pregnant women living with opioid use disorder (OUD) who received buprenorphine had significantly better health outcomes for themselves and their newborns, according to a new study from Vanderbilt ...

Jennifer Nestor, MD, evaluated a digital stethoscope to validate pediatric breath sound recordings for potential machine learning algorithm development. A recent study led by Jennifer Nestor, MD, ...

FDA approves dupilumab for chronic spontaneous urticaria in ages 12 and up ...

One step will be a partnership with the National Institutes of Health to research how food additives impact children's health. This week, the FDA and the US Department of Health and Human Services ...

Youth with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD) are more likely to experience poor cardiovascular health (CVH) compared to their peers without such disabilities, according to findings from the 2021 ...

Parents are more likely to ask about the presence of firearms in the homes their children visit when they receive gun safety information from a variety of sources, according to a new national study ...

Shorter antibiotic courses for AOM and CAP in children proved effective across a pediatric health system, according to data presented by Elysha Pifko, MD. At the 2025 Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS ...

In the wake of the no-biopsy approach to diagnosing celiac disease (CD) introduced in the 2012 European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Nutrition guidelines, Israeli ...

Findings from the ongoing STAR trial (NCT05778188) provided the first human data validating key inflammatory pathways previously identified only in animal models of HIE. In a poster titled "Early ...

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