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April 30, 2026

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Featured Children’s Health Topics

Happy little girl blowing pollen from a flower outside in spring.

Spring Allergy Season Is Starting Early: What Parents Can Do

Cute child with a basket of organic vegetables

Vegan and Vegetarian Diets for Kids: A Parent’s Guide

Teenage girl sitting on the floor and scrolling social media on a smartphone.

Tips for Navigating Social Media With Kids and Teens

Common Childhood Illnesses

Father checking on his sick daughter at home who might have COVID, RSV, or the flu.

Comparing Flu, COVID-19, and RSV: A Guide for Parents

5 Tips to Keep Your Family Healthy This Flu Season

All About Walking Pneumonia in Kids

Little One’s Got the Sniffles? Watch for Breathing Trouble

mother helping young child who is sick with parechovirus

Should Parents Worry About Parechovirus?

Wait No More: Nearly All Kids Can Now Get the

To Mask or Not to Mask? Good Question.

To Mask or Not to Mask? Good Question.

Why the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Made Some Teens’ Periods Irregular

Why the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Made Some Teens’ Periods Irregular

Staying Healthy While Staying Home: Nutrition & Activity

Staying Healthy While Staying Home: Nutrition & Activity

Questions About Omicron Abound: What’s a Parent to Do?

Questions About Omicron Abound: What’s a Parent to Do?

Tips for Needle Anxiety

Tips for Needle Anxiety

Is the Lower-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine OK for my Child?

Is the Lower-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine OK for my Child?

Healthy Habits and Wellness for Kids

Photo showing close-up, elevated view of arch of chopped multi-coloured fruits and vegetables. Rainbow of chopped red, orange and yellow bell peppers, green peas, red onion and a blueberry.

Eat the Rainbow: Your Guide to Colorful Nutrition

Little kids pretending to be a doctor. Shot of a cute little girl with a stethoscope examining her brother. Children playing doctors.

Creating Heart-Healthy Habits Starts in Childhood

Teenage students are standing in the school hallway, all looking at news and social media on their phones.

Having Tough Conversations With Your Kids About the News

Two happy female high school students standing in school corridor against blue lockers and using mobile phone.

Mind and Body Wellness Tips for Kids: Thriving At School

Mother with toddler on hip holding a carton of cooking cream and checking label

Decoding Food Labels: A Pediatrician’s Guide for Parents

Mother and daughter hiking in forest. Mother is applying tick repellent on the daughter's legs to prevent ticks and Lyme disease

Lyme Disease and Ticks: Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention

Healthy Spring and Summer Eating: Registered Dietitians’ Top Tips

All About Walking Pneumonia in Kids

Energy Drinks & Kids: Know the Risks

Nutrition in Sickle Cell Disease

Learn to Love Your Vegetables

Keto Diet: Ending Common Misconceptions

Teen Health and Parenting

A Touching Portrait of a Mother and Her Teenage Son Sharing a Warm Hug Outdoors, Highlighting Their Close and Loving Relationship.

The HPV Vaccine: Safety, Benefits, and Common Questions From Parents

young girl gamer sits at a computer with a Feel Free kratom drink

Feel Free Drinks and Kratom: Essential Information for Parents

Teen girl privately discussing symptoms with a female doctor

Adolescent Well Visits: A Safe Place for Teens to Be

Melatonin: 5 Safety Tips for Kids and Teens

Melatonin: 5 Safety Tips for Kids and Teens

Let's Rethink How We Talk to Teens about Their Weight

Let’s Rethink How We Talk to Teens about Their Weight

Vitamin D: An Important Role in Teen Health

Vitamin D: An Important Role in Teen Health

Why the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Made Some Teens’ Periods Irregular

Why the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Made Some Teens’ Periods Irregular

Should You Talk to Teens About weight Gain?

Should You Talk to Teens About Weight Gain?

Talking to Kids About Teen Dating Violence, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Talking to Kids About Teen Dating Violence

Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Your Teen Boys, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Your Teen Boys

Teens and Distracted Driving

Teens and Distracted Driving

Chest Pain in Teens: When to Worry

Chest Pain in Teens: When to Worry

Infant Health and Guidance for New Parents

Pediatric ENT examining the mouth of a baby using a medical spatula in doctor's office to check for lip tie or tongue tie

Understanding Lip and Tongue Ties: A Guide for Parents

Preventing Iron-Deficiency Anemia

Q&A: Infantile Spasms (IS)

Q&A: Infantile Spasms (IS)

Breastfeeding and COVID

Breastfeeding and COVID-19

8 Must-Know Tips to Ensure Safe Sleep for Your Baby

8 Must-Know Tips to Ensure Safe Sleep for Your Baby

What You Could Miss If You Skip Your Child's Well Visit

What You Miss If You Skip Your Child’s Well Visit

The dangers of leaving kids in a hot car, powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Preventing Hot Car Death in Children

A Lifetime of Better Health Begins with Good Oral Health, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

A Lifetime of Better Health Begins with Good Oral Health

Doctors, Including This One, Push for Baby Walker Ban, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Doctors, Including This One, Push for Baby Walker Ban

Car Seat Safety, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Car Seat Safety

Feeding your Infant - Breastfeeding and Formula Feeding, powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Your Baby’s Nutrition: Breastfeeding and Formula Feeding

Why newborns need a vitamin K shot , Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Why Newborns Need a Vitamin K Shot

Pregnancy Health and Wellness

Pregnant woman writing in her notebook while lying on hospital bed in fetal center while journaling.

What to Expect During an Extended Stay at a Fetal Care Center

Pregnant woman sits in doctors office while a maternal fetal medicine specialist listens to her questions.

Why You Might Be Referred to a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist

A closeup of a genetic counselor showing a karyogram to a patient during a prenatal genetic counseling consult.

Prenatal Genetic Counseling: What Expecting Parents Should Know

Pregnant woman catching cold, flu, virus, sitting at home on a couch, blowing nose and being sick.

Navigating Cold and Flu Season While Pregnant

pregnant women holding stomach with either morning sickness or hyperemesis gravidarum

Morning Sickness vs. Hyperemesis: Guidance for Expecting Moms

Image of newborn who is the 300th birth in the Nemours Children's Health Advanced Delivery Unit in Delaware.

300 Births and Counting: Inside the Nemours Advanced Delivery Unit

Young pregnant woman lying on sofa at home, looking at the ultrasound scan photo of her baby.

Planning for Pregnancy: What to Know About Health and Risk Factors

Doctor applies an adhesive bandage to preteen girl's arm after the girl receives a flu shot at an outdoor free clinic.

Protect Your Family This Season With a Flu Vaccine

Eating During Pregnancy: 5 "Go" and "No" Tips, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Eating During Pregnancy: 5 “Go” and “No” Tips

Gestational Diabetes and Diet: How the Right Foods Can Help | Armando Fuentes, MD | Promise: Powered by Nemours Children's Health

Gestational Diabetes and Diet: How the Right Foods Can Help

Q&A: Zika Virus from the experts at Nemours Children's Health System

Zika Virus Q&A: What Parents Need to Know

Youth Sports Health and Safety

Two little girls are having a water break on the running track at athletics club. One girl is standing with her hands on hips, the other is taking a big gulp of water from bottle.

Nutrition, Hydration, and Recovery for Young Athletes

When Your Child Wants to Quit Sports

A young teenage boy with a headache.

How to Handle Your Kid’s Headaches After Sports

Trouble Breathing During Exercise -- It’s Not Always Asthma, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Breathing Trouble During Exercise — It’s Not Always Asthma

8 Common Running Injuries

8 Common Running Injuries

How to Encourage Your Teen to Report a Concussion, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

How to Encourage Your Teen to Report a Concussion

Kids and Concussions. Tips for Parents and Coaches

Kids and Concussions: Tips for Parents and Coaches

Sudden cardiac arrest and teenage athletes | Steven Fishberger, MD | Promise: Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Teenage Athletes: What’s the Risk?

Teens Don’t Need Performance-Enhancing Substances. Here's Why, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Teens Don’t Need Performance-Enhancing Substances. Here’s Why.

Sorting Out 7 Common Sports Injury Myths, by Alfred Atanda, Jr., MD, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Sorting Out 7 Common Sports Injury Myths

Youth Soccer: What's the Goal, , by Jessica Laniak, PT, DPT, OCS, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Youth Soccer: What’s the Goal?

Sports Specialization or Variety: Which Is Better for Kids? - From the experts at Nemours

Sports Specialization or Variety: Which Is Better for Kids?

Emotional and Mental Wellbeing for Kids

Child patient pets a facility dog during her stay and recovery at Nemours hospital.

How Animal, Art, and Music Therapy Support Healing for Children

Navigating Youth Mental Health: Resources for Parents

Some Kids Turn to Social Media When They Worry: Does

michael and nicole phelps

Nicole Phelps on Raising Resilient Kids

How to Avoid Putting Too Much Pressure on Kids

How to Avoid Putting Too Much Pressure on Kids

Tips for Needle Anxiety

Tips for Needle Anxiety

Squid Game: 10 Things Parents Need to Know

Squid Game: 10 Things Parents Need to Know

Depression Screening in Primary Care, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Depression Screening in Primary Care – Why It’s Essential

Kids and Suicide: Know the Warning Signs and How to

Anxiety in Kids: Know the Signs

Anxiety in Kids: Know the Signs

All About Animal Therapy

All About Animal Therapy

How to Lend an Empathetic Ear

How to Lend an Empathetic Ear

Trending Topics in Pediatric Health

Eczema rash on the back of baby's knees

Eczema in Kids: A Parent’s Guide to Symptoms, Triggers, and

Child taking piece of sugar substitute with tongs in restaurant

Are Artificial Sweeteners Safe for Kids? What Parents Should Know

Grape Juice to Treat Stomach Flu? by Jordan Smallwood, MD. Promise: Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Grape Juice to Treat Stomach Flu? Not So Fast.

Nemours Patient Stories

Boy wearing a red jacket and sitting in a wheelchair smiles for a photo in a driveway next to a chalk writing that reads, "Happy Last 1st Day of Middle School! Go Brayden!"

Beyond Thankful: Brayden’s Story

Doctor and patient smile together for a photo

Finding the Right Care: Gianlucca’s Story

Portrait of a baby looking to the right while wearing a fuzzy white beanie and pink onesie

A Better Way: Charlize’s Story

Blonde child in green swimsuit smiles while playing in the pool

June’s Story (In Mom’s Words)

Boy with helmet on smiles and waves for a photo while riding in a go kart

Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month: Dylan’s Story

Girl playing wheelchair basketball smiles for a photo

Whole Child Care: Sarah’s Story

Child patient pets a facility dog during her stay and recovery at Nemours hospital.

How Animal, Art, and Music Therapy Support Healing for Children

ENT Awareness Month: Jeremiah’s Story

Phoenix’s Journey: A Story of Faith, Resilience, and Compassionate Care

Teen patient and doctor smiling for a selfie

From Patient to Future Physician: Garikoitz’s Story

Teen girl and her orthopedic surgeon smile together for a photo in a hospital clinic room.

Care You Can Trust: Alena’s Story

Girl with striped shirt and blue headphones poses in front of a white wall.

Strength and Comfort: Makyla’s Story

Nemours Associate Highlights

Associate Highlight: Daniel Biggers, OTC

Associate Highlight: Jenny Pfieffer, PCNS-BC, APRN, ESMHL

Associate Highlight: Erin Baker, PT, DPT, ATP, CPST

Associate Highlight: Brittany Virgil, PT

Associate Highlight: Gerard “Bucky” Buckreis, RN

Type 1 Diabetes Patient turned Endocrinologist: Patrick’s Story

Associate Highlight: Charlie Cericola, OTR

Allison: Tetralogy of Fallot, Hip Dysplasia and Ear Tubes

Angels in Scrubs: Kimberly’s Story

Pursuing a Passion for Child Life – Associate Spotlight: Kathryn

Associate Highlight: Kimberly Shoe’s Personal Connection to Pediatric Endocrinology

Associate Highlight- Jonathan Haro’s Stem Cell Donation