Sept. 6, 2022 – Attention parents: The nation’s leading pediatric medical society is urging you to make sure your children get a flu shot this fall to prevent and control the spread of the illness. The American Academy of Pediatrics this week called on parents and caregivers to seek flu vaccines for their kids as … Read more
By Robert PreidtHealthDay Reporter MONDAY, June 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — All children should be screened for conditions that may put them at risk for cardiac arrest or death, a new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement recommends. The screening should be done whether or not kids play sports, and it is particularly important … Read more
Campbell, who with colleagues has developed a plan for how to run pediatric COVID vaccine trials, points out that “in a universe where COVID mainly affected children the way it’s affecting them now, and we had potential vaccines, people would be clamoring for them.” The evidence that teens can transmit the disease is pretty … Read more
When doctors dismiss families for refusing vaccines, parents are sometimes swayed, the survey revealed. In fact, 18% often or always change their minds, while another 48% sometimes do. Twenty-nine percent rarely change their minds, and 5% never do, according to the surveys. The report found that private practices were more likely than community, hospital-based … Read more