pediatric health

A small but growing group of young teens are turning to drastic treatments to lose large amounts of weight, things like body-altering surgery and new drugs that rewire metabolism.

The medical director of the pediatric ICU at the Jacksonville hospital said that along with the COVID surge in kids there’s been a rise in the number of children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome.

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Referrals have become so prevalent that the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with interim guidance for doctors "to provide care for the same variety of visits" practiced prior to the pandemic.

The shortage of a crucial drug that fights childhood cancers has left both families and hospitals in a desperate search for treatment.In July, Teva…

The state last month removed about 2,000 children from a specialized program that provides services to medically fragile kids, finding that they were no...