Pediatricians are urged to follow 2024 guidelines amid ACIP upheaval, vaccine hesitancy, and access issues as children head ...

Dr Dawson is a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine at Baylor Scott & White Health, Killeen, Texas. She is director of the Pediatric Clerkship and assistant professor, Texas A&M Health ...

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On July 30, 2025, AbbVie announced positive and topline data from the phase 3 UP-AA clinical program (NCT06012240), in which upadacitinib (Rinvoq) (15 mg and 30 mg) demonstrated that 44.6% and 54.3% ...

Dr Mahr is director, Pediatric Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, Wisconsin, and adjunct clinical professor of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine ...

Joshua Fitch is the senior editor for Contemporary Pediatrics. He joined the brand in March of 2023 as an editor before being promoted to senior editor in January 2024. Fitch graduated from Youngstown ...

On July 28, 2025, the FDA approved PTC Therapeutics' sepiapterin (Sephience) to treat adult and pediatric patients with phenylketonuria (PKU), including all age groups and the full spectrum of disease ...

Suzanne Hollander, MS, RD, LDN and Timothy Tramontana, MD offer thoughts on the newly FDA-approved sepiapterin for PKU. On July 28, 2025, the FDA approved PTC Therapeutics' sepiapterin (Sephience) to ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), an organization made up of more than 67,000 pediatricians, pediatric medical sub-specialists, and surgical specialists, has released its influenza vaccine ...

The FDA has approved avatrombopag and new sprinkle formulation for children ≥1 year with chronic ITP, offering an oral, food-flexible treatment option.

The study enrolled infants not selected for risk, a population that has been studied few times with regard to emollient intervention.

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