Regular contributor to The Upshot at The New York Times and Professor of Pedaitrics at Indiana Univeristy School of Medicine Dr. Aaron Carroll features a recent PolicyLab study in his HealthTriage video series. The study,…

A recent PolicyLab study was one of the ten Health Affairs articles most-shared through Twitter, Facebook and the media this past year. In their study, PolicyLab researcher Doug Strane and Director Dr. David Rubin found that…

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are at epidemic proportions in the United States, with unprecedented numbers of chlamydia and gonorrhea – 1.5 million and nearly 400,000 cases in 2015, respectively – reported by the Centers for…

Hypertension and prehypertension in children often go undiagnosed, according to a new study from PolicyLab’s Dr. Alex Fiks. The study focused on children with abnormal blood pressures across the United States, and is the first to show…

In March 2016, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released the first-ever policy statement on poverty, calling for pediatricians to screen and address poverty and related social determinants of health (SDH). Notably, poverty has…

At the conclusion of a two-year term, after members of the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities traveled the country to hear first-hand accounts of how individuals and communities are working to reduce child abuse…

PolicyLab researcher Nadia Dowshen, MD, recently reviewed a new UNICEF handbook that aims to ensure practitioners have a broad understanding of the psychological and social impacts of HIV on childhood and adolescence. The handbook was…

Medical and research communities at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) want to know how they can effectively capitalize on texting and other new avenues of communication with their young patients through mobile health …

An estimated four to eight children die every day from abuse and neglect, and half of these children are less than a year old. These statistics were the driving force behind the federal Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect…

Last month, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia in Association with The Philadelphia County Medical Society and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health held a continuing medical education program on Long-Acting Reversible…