Keeping the M in Medical Exemptions: Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Children

Keeping the M in medical exemptions: protecting our most vulnerable children.

In this issue of the journal, Stadlin et al report that, although the rates of medical exemptions to school immunization requirements are rather modest, easier processes for offering medical exemptions were associated with higher rates of medical exemptions [1]. This finding is consistent with previous studies that found that the ease of obtaining nonmedical religious or philosophical exemption...

Caring for our most vulnerable patients.

Neonatal anesthesia: how we manage our most vulnerable patients

Neonates undergoing surgery are at higher risk than older children for anesthesia-related adverse events. During the perioperative period, the maintenance of optimal hemodynamics in these patients is challenging and requires a thorough understanding of neonatal physiology and pharmacology. Data from animals and human cohort studies have shown relation of the currently used anesthetics may assoc...

Protecting Our Most Vulnerable: Why Antimicrobial Stewardship for Senior Living Is a Must: Results from Four Large Senior Living Centers

Protecting Our Children from Climate Change

This month, as we celebrate National Children's Health Month with Environmental Health Perspectives' (EHP) annual issue focused on children's health around the world, one particular nexus of concern has risen to the forefront: the current and potential impacts of climate change on children's health. Although climate change has become a constant topic of scientific inquiry and political discussi...