Parents and caregivers can help soothe a crying baby by identifying and responding to the child’s needs.

Interventions should address infant crying and its effect on caregivers.

While underreporting suspected abuse is a serious concern, overreporting can have unintended consequences for children and families.

The revision, which took effect Jan. 1, offers staff 100% of their base salary for 12 weeks following the birth of an employee’s child or the placement of a child with an employee in connection with adoption or foster care.

While AAP leadership continues to address equity, diversity and inclusion, members are doing their part to advance equitable health care in local communities.

Plenary speakers Claudia Aristy and Perri Klass, M.D., FAAP, spoke of the importance early literacy plays in a child’s development. They also announced an updated AAP policy statement that offers guidance on how pediatricians can promote literacy development at health supervision visits.

We cannot continue to treat the child health system as the little adult health system.

Marginalized and minoritized communities exist because of the actions of those in power. Pediatricians exist to care for those communities.

Title IV-B of the Social Security Act funds key services to help families thrive.

A revised AAP policy statement provides an update on the evolution of child fatality review teams and calls for continued improvement in the review process to protect children from preventable deaths.

Former AAP Board Member and District IX Chairperson Burton F. Willis, M.D., FAAP, has died.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering new regulations to increase the safety of infant nursing support pillows.

Meeting on Indigenous child health, infant nutrition resources, PediaLink course on Tourette syndrome

Two children, ages 4 and 6, became entrapped in the blankets and died due to asphyxia in April 2022.

Children exposed to extreme cold for too long without warm, dry, breathable clothing can get frostbite or even life-threatening hypothermia.

The AAP continues to emphasize placing infants on their backs in an uncluttered crib.

Dr. Schaechter began her tenure on Jan. 1 at the nonprofit that has almost 140 staff and over 400 volunteers.

A revised AAP policy statement aims to change the culture around parental leave for trainees.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the AAP have revised developmental milestones in the Learn the Signs. Act Early. program, which helps parents identify autism and developmental delays in their children.

Policy process changes aim to reduce time to publication, consider health equity implications, increase guidance to authors, shorten the length of policies and add transparency.