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• Philadelphia Researchers Identify Critical Link Between Negative Parenting Cycles and Gaming Disorder in Children With ADHD

  Published: Apr 24, 2026

  Section: Mental Health

  A Children's Hospital of Philadelphia study presented at the PAS 2026 Meeting suggests that arguing and punitive parenting significantly correlate with gaming addiction in children...

• Sepsis Implicated in One-Fifth of All Pediatric Hospital Deaths According to Landmark National Surveillance Study

  Published: Mar 23, 2026

  Section: Health

  A comprehensive study published in JAMA reveals that sepsis affects 1 in 75 hospitalized children in the United States, with a mortality rate exceeding 10%. Led by the Harvard Pilg...

• Automated Pediatric Screening System Drives Significant Increase In Maternal Smoking Cessation Rates

  Published: Mar 18, 2026

  Section: Science & Tech

  Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have developed an automated electronic health record system that successfully increased smoking cessation among mothers by nearly...

• Automated Pediatric Intervention Sparks Significant Rise in Smoking Cessation Rates Among Mothers

  Published: Mar 17, 2026

  Section: Health

  Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have successfully implemented an automated tobacco treatment system that increased smoking cessation rates by 3.9% amo...