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 sh...

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 h...

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 ab...

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 w...

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 (m...

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 Neglec...

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...

PolicyLab researcher Dr. Katherine Yun and colleagues from the New York University School of Medicine and Langone Medical Center discuss in a new commentary in the AMA Journal of Ethics how undocumented immigrants face a unique set ...

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) and PolicyLab at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will hold a press conference on Tuesday, February 23rd, from 2pm to 2:30pm. At this event, DHS Secre...

On February 17th, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia in Association with The Philadelphia County Medical Society and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health will be holding a continuing medical education program on Long-...