Overview
Pediatrics is the branch of medicine devoted to the health and medical care of infants, children, and adolescents, addressing physical, developmental, and psychosocial growth from birth through adolescence. It integrates preventive care, including immunisation, growth and developmental surveillance, and nutrition, with the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic childhood conditions across infectious disease, endocrinology, neurology, oncology, and critical care. Because children differ physiologically from adults in pharmacology, disease presentation, and developmental vulnerability, paediatric practice emphasises age-specific assessment and early intervention to optimise long-term outcomes. The peer-reviewed research collected here reflects this breadth, including outcomes and associated factors after paediatric traumatic brain injury, paediatricians' knowledge of pertussis vaccination, models for high-volume urban immunisation clinics, and trends of diabetes in children seen in paediatric endocrinology and diabetes services. Further work on a rare febrile syndrome, bronchoalveolar findings in mycoplasma pneumonia, childhood COVID-19, internal jugular phlebectasia as a neck mass, and metastatic paediatric nasopharyngeal carcinoma illustrates the diagnostic range of the field, while studies on childhood overweight extend its preventive scope. Together these themes situate paediatrics at the intersection of preventive medicine, developmental science, and subspecialty care, where vaccination, early detection, and tailored treatment protect health across the formative years.
Research published in this journal
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
A Rare Cause of Fever of Unknown Origin: Reverse Shapiro’s Syndrome
The Knowledge Levels of Pediatricians about the Vaccination against Pertussis
A High Volume, User-Friendly Immunization Clinic in Vellore, India: A Model for Urban Hospitals
Exploration of the Implementation of Music Therapy into the Health Services: Lituanian Experience
Changes in Cellular Morphology in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid of Children with Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Pneumonia
COVID-19: What we know
Internal Jugular Phlebectasia; A Challenging Neck Mass in Children
Management of Locally Advanced and Metastatic Pediatric Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma. Experience of Children Cancer Hospital – Egypt
Turnover of Registered Nurses in Israeli Hospitals: A Secondary Analysis from a National Survey
Childhood Overweight, Social Media, and Osteoarthritis: Is there a Possible Emergent, yet Unrecognized Linkage?
Trends of Diabetes in Children and Adolescents in Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic and Clinical Pediatric Diabetes Center at Al Baha Central Hospital in Saudi Arabia
How this research is being cited
The 12 articles above have been cited 55 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2026 · Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography
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RajeevZachariah Kompithra et al. · 2025 · Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
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V. Ramasubramanian et al. · 2025 · Journal of Association of Physicians of India
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2025 · Cureus
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2025 · PLOS One
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2025 · PLoS ONE
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2025 · Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
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2025 · Cureus
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