The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently released updated clinical guidelines on the management of obesity in children. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) designated obesity ...

The AAP published updated recommendations for screening newborns for critical congenital heart disease with a new algorithm it said could catch more infants than the previous one. Screening for ...

The clinical report, published in the January ... said that the recommendations build on the guidelines published by the AAP more than 10 years ago for screening of CCHD. “While that ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics has published its first clinical guideline for pediatricians on prescribing opioids, including explicit instructions on how and when to prescribe these ...