Academic Articles & Research Papers

Spatial heterogeneity in area-level environmental context of hospital-based congenital structural anomaly burden in Southwest China: a retrospective study from a provincial pediatric referral center.

Spatiotemporal distribution of pregnancies among girls aged 14 years or younger in Bahia, Brazil, 2014-2023: an ecological study under the Brazilian legal framework of statutory rape.

Altered gut microbial functional landscape in children with pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome following SARS-CoV-2 infection: an exploratory metagenomic study.

Ecological reshaping of pediatric respiratory pathogen profiles after COVID-19-related non-pharmaceutical interventions were lifted: a 5-year interrupted time-series study.

Perceptual-cognitive training in basketball: effects on cognitive-motor performance, decision-making, and sport-specific transfer across youth players.

Discordance among skeletal maturity indicators: sources, interpretation, and clinical implications.

Ketogenic diet therapy in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: toward syndrome- and gene-informed precision therapy.

Change in Travel Distance for Pediatric Mental Health Admissions in Illinois, 2016 to 2024.

Trends in Regionalization of Pediatric Inpatient and Critical Care by Medical Complexity.

Temporal trends in surfactant replacement therapy among U.S. infants, 2016-2024.

Incidence and epidemiological characteristics of congenital adrenal hyperplasia in Hangzhou newborns, China (2014-2024): a population-based cross-sectional study.

Gut microbiota dysbiosis in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia: clinical consequences, mechanistic insights, and microbiota-targeted interventions.

Development of an Atlas for US Pediatric Acute Care.

State Repeal of Nonmedical Vaccine Exemptions and Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.

Prevalence of hypocalcemia in neonates receiving phototherapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Associated factors for COVID-19 mortality among children and adolescents in Rio de Janeiro state, 2020-2023.

Monogenic obesity due to MC4R deficiency: lessons from a multigenerational case

Abstract Background Melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) deficiency is the most common monogenic cause of obesity, yet remains underdiagnosed. Patients with monogenic obesity often undergo a frustrating diagnostic and therapeutic odyssey of years...

The Alberta Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System: a 40-year review with prevalence and trends for selected congenital anomalies, 1997–2019

IntroductionCurrent published long-term provincial or territorial congenital anomaly data are lacking for Canada. We report on prevalence (per 1000 total births) and trends in 1997–2019, in Alberta, Canada, for selected congenital anomalies...

Innovative partnerships to advance public health training in community-based academic residency programs

Joan C Lo,1–3 Thomas E Baudendistel,2,3 Abhay Dandekar,3,4 Phuoc V Le,5 Stanton Siu,2,3 Bruce Blumberg6 1Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA; 2Department of Medicine, ...

Effect of the mHealth-supported Healthy Future programme delivered by community health workers on maternal and child health in rural China: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

Introduction Millions of young rural children in China still suffer from poor health and malnutrition, partly due to a lack of knowledge about optimal perinatal and child care among rural mothers and caregivers. Meanwhile, there is an urgen...