Cardiology

This month’s spotlight is Pediatric Cardiology as Contemporary Pediatrics sits down exclusively with pediatric cardiologist Cheyenne Beach, MD, to discuss the one key condition for which she believes community pediatricians should be especially aware—syncope.

Screening for critical congenital heart defects (CCHD) is now standard across the country, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling for continued improvement on how data is collected and shared from the screenings.

Sports have long been linked to cases of sudden cardiac arrest in the young, but a recent report shows that obesity may play a larger role than activity.

A new study reviewing whether drinking water before vaccination could help dispel feelings of postvaccination dizziness found instead that anxiety before the shot may be a bigger factor.