Caring Through Serious Illness
Caring for a child with life threatening illness, poor prognosis or who is at the end of life is one of the most difficult experiences a ped...
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Charting Pediatrics
Children's Hospital Colorado faculty examine the latest treatment options for the most common chief complaints in pediatric medicine. We will talk about significant research and advances in...
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Supporting Healthy Mental Development in Kids
A child can be doing well on paper and still be struggling to grow into who they are. They're meeting milestones. They're doing fine in scho...
Clinical Guidance for Pediatric Toilet Training
Toilet training may seem like a simple developmental milestone until you're the pediatrician helping a family navigate accidents, resistance...
Primary Care for Children Born Preterm
The NICU discharge is a milestone, but it's not the finish line. For children born prematurely, primary care plays a critical role in what c...
Reducing Prescriptions with Acute Otitis Media
An earache. A fussy toddler. A worried parent. And often, a familiar prescription : antibiotics. Acute otitis media is one of the most commo...
AAP Vaccine Recommendations: A 2026-2027 Update
There was a time when the vaccine conversation in pediatrics felt straightforward: here's the schedule, here's what your child needs , and h...
New Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis Guidelines
Atopic dermatitis may be common, but it can be anything but simple. For children and their families, sleepless nights from persistent itch a...
Is It Really Asthma?
Wheezing, cough and increased work of breathing are common pediatric presentations that can quickly lead clinicians to consider asthma. But...
Building Systems for Better Pediatric Primary Care
Fifteen minutes. That's about all the time most pediatricians have to care for an entire child and family. In that brief visit, they a re ex...
Iron Deficiency Anemia in Kids
Iron deficiency anemia is one of the most common nutritional deficiencies in children and adolescents, but it can sometimes be easy to miss....
Tics and Tourette Syndrome in Children
Tics are common in childhood, but recognizing when they are part of typical development, and when they may indicate Tourette syndrome or ano...
The Health Benefits of Recess for Kids
When adults look back on school, they often remember more than lessons and worksheets. They remember recess — the playground, movement, frie...
Childhood Leukemia in Primary Care
Some of the most serious diagnoses in pediatrics begin with common pediatric symptoms. A child comes in looking pale or with a febrile illne...
Pediatric Tick Bite Management
Tick bites used to be a seasonal nuisance, something you might mention briefly at a well visit in late spring. But that's no longer the real...
Evaluating Precocious Puberty
Puberty doesn't always follow the expected timeline . What happens when it shows up ahead of schedule? For pediatricians, the early appearan...
First 1,000 Days of Brain Building
A child's future begins long before the first words, first steps or even the first smile. In the span of just 1,000 days , billions of neura...
When is a Curve a Sign of Scoliosis?
The human spine is designed to support, balance and adapt through a lifetime of growth. But what happens when that growth starts to bend in...
Helping Parents With Discipline
When most people hear the word "discipline ", they think consequences, punishments or stopping bad behavior in the moment. But what if we've...
Making Sense of BRUE
It's one of the most unsettling calls a pediatrician can get: a baby who turned blue, stopped breathing or suddenly went limp , only to appe...
New Drowning Prevention Guidance
For many families, water represents joy, summer afternoons, swimming lessons, beach vacations, backyard pools and time spent together. But i...