Protecting children and youth from tobacco: What are we waiting for?

Status epilepticus: For what are we waiting?

Breast cancer diagnosis: what are we waiting for?

HIV Testing for Children in Resource-Limited Settings: What Are We Waiting For?

Expansion of prevention of mother-to-child transmission in resource-limited settings remains a challenge. In many countries, most HIV-exposed infants do not benefit from PMTCT programs, which results in a 30% or more transmission rate. Vertically infected infants not diagnosed in the context of PMTCT are rarely diagnosed until symptomatic with HIV, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality...

Youth tobacco cessation: filling the gap between what we do and what we know.

E ach day, over 2000 youth under the age of 18 become daily smokers, and the age of smoking initiation is going down. 1 Although the prevalence of smoking among youth has shown encouraging downward trends in the last few years, smoking prevalence among youth remains higher than among adults. Recent data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System indicate that 28.5% of high school students...

Protecting Children From Tobacco, Nicotine, and Tobacco Smoke.

This technical report serves to provide the evidence base for the American Academy of Pediatrics' policy statements "Clinical Practice Policy to Protect Children From Tobacco, Nicotine, and Tobacco Smoke" and "Public Policy to Protect Children From Tobacco, Nicotine, and Tobacco Smoke." Tobacco use and involuntary exposure are major preventable causes of morbidity and premature mortality in adu...