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....
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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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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...
Atypical Anorexia: Looking Beyond the Scale
What if the patient you're least worried about is the one most at risk? In pediatrics, we're trained to look for red flags such as low weigh...
Heart Murmurs: Red Flags and Reassurance
Heart murmurs are one of the most common findings in pediatric practice, but determining which ones warrant further evaluation can be challe...
Ebola in 2026
Ebola has a way of cutting through the noise of the news cycle . I ts name alone can shift conversations in exam rooms and on living room co...
The Latest on Child Abuse in Pediatrics
There's a moment in a pediatrician's day that doesn't show up on the schedule. It's the bruise that doesn't quite match the story , or the a...
Hantavirus Beyond the Headlines
When a rare disease suddenly dominates headlines, questions spread quickly and so does anxiety. Over the past few weeks, hantavirus has re-e...
The Pediatric UTI Playbook
Pediatric urinary tract infections, or UTIs, don't always follow a scrip t. While they're one of th e most co mmon diagnoses, they're also o...
Genetic Testing in Pediatrics
Genetic testing is no longer a distant, specialized tool reserved for rare disease clinics or academic centers. It's showing up in pediatric...
Conjunctivitis Confusion in Kids
It's one of the most common calls you'll get as a pediatrician , and one of the fastest infections to spread through a classroom. A pink eye...
Picky Eating or ARFID?
"Picky eater" is one of the most common labels in pediatrics and one of the easiest to overlook. But when a child's diet is shrinking instea...