Commentary

One parent asks whether scoliosis screenings in school are really necessary, and do they make a difference in the health of a child?

In this month’s Pediatrics Top Paper, Jordan N. Watson, MD, summarizes the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendations for preventing and controlling influenza among children during this year’s...

This post describes the final steps in going from practicing clinician to published author.

In this commentary, Sheldon P. Hersh, MD, writes about how retaining tainted eponyms is a means to remembering history and traces back a few eponyms that may be expunged.

In this article, Scott T Vergano, MD, writes about 3 papers you may have missed in October 2021, including research on birth hospital length of stay and readmission during the COVID-19 pandemic, an update...

Previous reports have suggested that mean blood pressure (BP) increased during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States.1 There have been many hypotheses regarding why–including...

This post details what happens after the peer-reviewer panelists reach a decision to accept an article for publication.

In this month’s Pediatrics Top Paper, Brittany Perry, DO, writes about a study that aimed to estimate the risk of neonatal outcomes from patterns of prenatal antidepressant use.

In this article Michael J. Bloch, MD, writes about the potential use of a polypill for cardiovascular disease prevention and discusses how the results of recent research supports the potential use in the...