The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is considering certain changes to the current meningococcal vaccination schedule. Here's why the ACIP should scrap that proposal.
As the consent landscape continues to evolve, pediatricians are tasked with striking a careful balance – respecting the autonomy of their teenage patients while still operating within the guardrails of state regulations and parental authority.
Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.
In 2021, 69% of LGBQ+ teens reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year, compared to 35% of heterosexual teens, according to a recent CDC report. This stat is likely understated because the report did not include information about those who identify as transgender, experts said.
Preliminary results of a study at Boston's Partners HealthCare among teenagers with asthma found significant improvement in engagement and in symptom control when patients received reminders and encouragement from clinicians and peers via Facebook.
He’s only 15, but Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner Nathan Han may be on his way to making some important advances in cancer research. His winning invention is a machine-learning software tool he’s been using to examine in detail the characteristics of several mutations of the BRCA1 gene, which produces tumor suppressor proteins. […]