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Professionalism in Pediatric Medicine: Why We Must Get It Right
 Professionalism in Pediatric Medicine: Why We Must Get It Right 1024 580 Ashley Fernandes, MD, PhD
By: Ashley Fernandes, MD, PhD
Ashley Fernandes, MD, PhD, wearing a white coat with a Nationwide Children's logo, standing in front of a blurred hospital interior background

A talented junior attending physician on a high acuity service is impatient on rounds and visibly irritated by nursing concerns, making trainees and team members uncomfortable and anxious about speaking up. A senior medical researcher pushes the limits on deadlines for important grants and requests for proposals with his team, overcommitting to mentor gifted research…

Challenges in Medication Titration in Children with Heart Failure
 Challenges in Medication Titration in Children with Heart Failure 1024 537 Pam Georgiana
By: Pam Georgiana

Beyond the guidelines: implementing consensus-based care for complex patients. Pediatric heart failure is a complex clinical diagnosis, with a growing body of evidence to suggest there are critical differences between pediatric and adult heart failure. In a recent review published in JHLT Open, Jessie Yester, MD, PhD and Deipanjan Nandi, MD highlight the unique challenges…

Treating Obesity With GLP-1s — Finding the Way Forward
 Treating Obesity With GLP-1s — Finding the Way Forward 150 150 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller

Using lessons learned from medicating mental and behavioral health conditions, Stephen Cook, MD, offers suggestions about how medications approved for adolescents with obesity should become part of care.   For most of the time in Western medicine, people have treated obesity like a choice — not a disease. Like other conditions now understood to be…

What Pediatricians Need to Know About Over-the-Counter Oral Contraception
 What Pediatricians Need to Know About Over-the-Counter Oral Contraception 1024 683 Elise Berlan, MD, MPH and Caroline Weingart, MD
By: Elise Berlan, MD, MPH and Caroline Weingart, MD
Teenage girl having stomach ache, young woman health care provider examining her.

The first over-the-counter contraceptive pill – the Opill® – is currently available in retail outlets and online. The FDA approved the sale of Opill® (nongestural 0.075mg), the first over-the-counter birth control pill without age restrictions, in July 2023. Now, nearly a year later, it will be available soon in retail outlets and online. As a…

Enhancing Intestinal Rehabilitation Workflow with Disease-Specific Documentation Tools
 Enhancing Intestinal Rehabilitation Workflow with Disease-Specific Documentation Tools 150 150 Erin Gregory
By: Erin Gregory

Structured data entry not only reduces the amount of time physicians are spending in the electronic health record but also opens the door for new research. A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics by Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Ethan Mezoff, MD, Jennifer Lee, MD, and team has shed light on a promising solution to improve the…

Ask A Specialist: What Are the Recommendations for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Screening in Primary Care?
 Ask A Specialist: What Are the Recommendations for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Screening in Primary Care? 1024 575 Cynthia Holland-Hall, MD
By: Cynthia Holland-Hall, MD
Teen girl with backpack

STI screening is recommended for all sexually active adolescents. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, nearly 1 in 4 teens have an STI. Safe sexual practices and routine screening can prevent these infections – that’s where health care providers come in. By offering routine testing for all sexually active teens in addition to safe…

Recent Trends in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety in US Children and Adolescents
 Recent Trends in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety in US Children and Adolescents 1024 683 Lauren Dembeck
By: Lauren Dembeck

In 2021, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Children’s Hospital Association joined together to declare a national state of emergency in children’s mental health. The declaration was motivated by steadily increasing rates of childhood mental health concerns and suicide between 2010 and 2020. Among those concerns are anxiety…