This week from the AAP: updated infant sleep recommendations
June 21st 2022This week, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated their safe sleep recommendations and released the 2022 bright futures/AAP periodicity schedule for preventive pediatric health care. In part 1, we focus on the updates in sleep recommendations.
FDA launches “Next Legend” e-cigarette prevention campaign for American indigenous youth
June 9th 2022The FDA recently announced an e-cigarette prevention campaign aimed at Native American and Alaskan Native youth using prominent social media sites and traditional media like billboards, radio, and TV.
AAP announces recommendation of using non-stigmatizing terminology for substance use policy
May 24th 2022Rachel H. Alinsky, MD, MPH, FAAP, spoke with Contemporary Pediatrics® about her newly released AAP policy statement advocating for the use of medically accurate, person-first terminology when discussing substance use.
First patient treated in adolescent epilepsy trial assessing NeuroPace RNS system
May 17th 2022Since its approval for the treatment of medical refractory epilepsy in 2013, the closed-loop neuromodulation device has had its efficacy and safety confirmed in several pivotal studies and will now be assessed in focal epilepsy in the RESPONSE trial.
Eliminating race-based medicine in pediatrics and beyond
May 2nd 2022Race in medical diagnosis and treatment has a centuries-old history of mistreatment, which still peeks through in today’s medical environment. Now, the American Academy of Pediatrics aims to eliminate the use of race-based medicine with its new policy statement.
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.