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Black children consistently have more medical complications during appendectomies than their white peers, including higher rates of “perforated” or burst appendixes. That not only leads to extended hospital stays for …
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Just hours after the Food and Drug Administration announced full approval for the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a warning: Physicians should not vaccinate …
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As pediatricians, we are committed to putting children’s health first. Last year, though, when hospitals filled with adults with Covid-19, we turned our attention to caring for them. Across the …
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There’s a heated debate over whether to expand genomic sequencing to more newborns — especially about whether to sequence healthy babies. How will parents react to the results? The tests …
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“Vaxxed and waxed” may be the TikTok sensation of the moment, a rallying cry for plenty of Americans who — thinking the pandemic is at an end — are emerging …
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World health experts met recently to discuss an emerging global health crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic: plummeting rates of basic vaccinations among the world’s children. While many experts have …
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Forty years after the first AIDS cases were reported, the harsh reality is that deep inequalities continue to exist in the global response to HIV and AIDS, with gaps in …
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When the boy was brought to the San Diego emergency department one night last October, he was inconsolable. Within about half an hour, clinicians had a clue of what was …
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For this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” I spoke with Priscilla Chan, co-founder and CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, about the urgent need for more single-cell research …
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