Why are so many doctors and nurses leaving staff positions in health care?
November 9th 2021Contemporary Pediatrics® talks to Nicholas Holmes, MD, senior vice-president and chief operating officer at Rady's Children's Hospital San Diego, about why so many health care workers and support staff are leaving their jobs.
Using a lifestyle approach to manage adolescent depression
October 10th 2021At the virtual 2021 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition, Christina Low Kapalu, PhD, discusses evidence-based lifestyle interventions that should be part of an adolescent depression management and treatment plan.
It takes a village: community interventions to address teen e-cigarette use
October 10th 2021At the virtual 2021 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition, Maria Rahmandar, MD, FAAP, reviews issues surrounding teen e-cigarette use in schools, along with methods to help teens quit.
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: lessons learned, next steps
October 10th 2021At the virtual 2021 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition, Ibukun Kalu, MD, discussed what is known about the pathophysiology of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and implications for related diseases such as Kawasaki syndrome.
Essential advice to prevent food allergies
October 9th 2021At the virtual 2021 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition, Vivian Hernandez-Trujillo, MD, FAAP, FAAAAI, FACAAI, division director, Allergy and Immunology, and fellowship training program director, Allergy and Immunology at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, Florida presents a session on best practices for preventing food allergies in newborns and infants.
Want to convince a patient to get the COVID-19 vaccine? Talk to them about rubella.
May 26th 2021Contemporary Pediatrics recently talked to Dr. Jeffrey Kahn, chief of Infectious Diseases at Children's Health and professor at UT Southwestern about the children's vaccine for COVID-19, the importance of pediatricians, and why the plan to get children vaccinated now should follow the rubella strategy.