Food allergy: A trigger for atopic dermatitis?
September 23, 2019
Recommendations for whether to test for and treat food allergy in the setting of atopic dermatitis have changed.
Lisette Hilton
Paternal factors also affect children’s risk for AD
September 19, 2019
Pediatricians should consider family history of atopic dermatitis (AD) in both parents to help frame the risk for their offspring.
Wart treatments vs placebo
September 13, 2019
Many treatments for warts are destructive and painful, and are more likely to cause complications than the warts. A pediatric dermatologist advises what to do—or not do—for common warts.
Healing both body and mind in atopic dermatitis
September 9, 2019
Children with atopic dermatitis (AD) will go to great lengths to hide their skin. Here’s how referring them to a pediatric psychologist can help them be their best self, even with AD.
Children’s hospital addresses AYA patients’ cancer care needs
September 5, 2019
An innovative program helps adolescents and young adults (AYAs) hospitalized with cancer to cope with their disease and navigate their journey through treatment and beyond.
The vaccine discussion: A frustrating but necessary investment in time
July 28, 2019
Pediatricians spend precious time talking with parents whether they’re vaccine hesitant or vaccine opposed. Yet the time pediatricians spend trying to understand and educate families who are hesitant or against vaccinating their children is important and can be effective, according to Tina Q. Tan, MD.
Know your audience, acknowledge specific concerns
July 27, 2019
Mark R. Schleiss, MD, discusses the differences between parents who are vaccine hesitant and those that are outright vaccine refusers. One can be reached and the other cannot.
Speak from the heart about vaccines
July 24, 2019
Most humans are not moved by data. So, when John V. Williams, MD, talks with vaccine-hesitant or opposed parents, he’ll often talk about what he has seen as a pediatrician and done as a parent.
Navigating the antivax movement
July 23, 2019
Contemporary Pediatrics asked pediatric infectious diseases experts how community pediatricians can talk with families who are firmly against vaccinating their children or hesitant to do so. Here’s what they said.
Craft the message: Vaccines are routine, safe, preventive medicine
July 21, 2019
Pediatricians play a powerful role in educating parents about vaccines’ importance and proven safety. The way they present the information can impact whether a vaccine-hesitant or opposed parent listens and ultimately approves or disapproves of childhood vaccines, according to Patricia Whitley-Williams, MD, president-elect of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and chief of the Division of Allergy. Immunology, and Infectious Diseases at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
