Robust healthcare systems play a pivotal role in driving economic growth. Yet, within this spectrum, pediatric surgery remains critically underfunded. With millions of children having no access to ...

Spring is finally giving way to summer, and with the lengthening days and warming temperatures come an increase in playground injuries among kids. Falls off the monkey bars that result in a bad bone ...

Professional societies agreed that U.S. centers performing pediatric and congenital heart surgery should be formally reorganized into two tiers with volume requirements designed to maintain surgical ...

Written by Keynote Contributor, Dr. Joseph G. Barone. The orderly is shocked because a child is undergoing surgery, but no surgeon is at the bedside. Unseen in a quiet corner of the operating room ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Northwell Staten Island University Hospital has appointed a new director of pediatric surgery, who will oversee the expansion of pediatric surgical services, the Ocean Breeze ...

Researchers examined elective surgeries and found children of color are between 40% and 60% less likely to have procedures. Delaying an elective surgery can lead to more health problems and worsened ...

Obesity is a multifactorial disease of epidemic and global proportions that poses the most significant threat to the health of our younger generations. Those who are the most extremely affected bear ...

Chen also serves as the surgeon-in-chief at Children’s of Alabama, where he practices general and thoracic pediatric surgery. He is a professor in the UAB Department of Surgery and specializes in the ...

In late 2018, a handful of pediatric specialists with an interest in the nascent field of enhanced recovery after surgery, more commonly known as ERAS, gathered in Richmond, Virginia. It was the first ...

Dr. Lara Shekerdemian has been named chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine after serving as interim chair since April. Shekerdemian is a professor of pediatrics in the ...