Behavioral health issues during childhood and adolescence play out every day in homes, schools and health care settings, and are increasingly being highlighted on the national stage: the rise of youth suicide, increases in adolescent depression, social pressures, and many other cha...

On behalf of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, researchers at PolicyLab responded to a request for comment on a notice of proposed rulemaking for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that would change SNAP regulations for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs). Unde...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and other vaping devices have seen extraordinary growth in use in the past 10 years, and companies are accelerating their development of new products and marketing efforts. In turn, researchers have increased their efforts to ...

The infant mortality rate in USA exceeds that of most other developed nations, ranking 26th among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.Non-Hispanic black infants in USA die more than twice as often as non-Hispanic white infants (11.4 vs 4.9 per 1000 live...

IMPORTANCE: Racial and ethnic minorities receive lower-quality health care than white non-Hispanic individuals in the United States. Where minority infants receive care and the role that may play in the quality of care received is unclear. OBJECTIVE: To determine the extent of seg...

OBJECTIVE: Thirty percent of adults with fibromyalgia receive an opioid, but the prevalence of opioid prescribing in pediatric chronic musculoskeletal pain is unknown. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of and factors associated with opioid exposure and polypha...

We sought: 1) to examine the association between the presence of a child abuse pathway and the odds of skeletal survey performance in infants with injuries associated with high risk of abuse and 2) to determine whether pathway presence decreased disparities in skeletal survey perfo...

Three-dimensional (3-D) printing is gaining terrain in medical education, presurgical evaluation and recently as forensic evidence in court. Physicians, including radiologists, often provide expert testimony in court cases involving children with rib fractures and other injuries co...

BACKGROUND: Little is known about repeat testing for patients admitted to children's hospitals from the emergency department (ED). OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to describe the trend of repeat laboratory testing from a children's hospital ED. METHODS: Laboratory stud...

Asthma is the most common chronic medical condition in children, and childhood asthma hospitalizations continue to make up a large portion of preventable hospital readmissions and health care costs. Poorly managed asthma not only impacts a child’s health, but can negatively affect ...