Pediatrics
Who we are
The Division of General Pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital seeks to enhance the lives of children and families locally, nationally and internationally through clinical care, teaching, research and community service.
To accomplish this mission, we:
- provide a full range of state-of-the-art inpatient and outpatient clinical services for children and their families to optimize health and well-being
- provide exceptional training to students, residents, fellows, post-doctoral fellows and other clinicians, researchers and educators
- conduct groundbreaking research on important issues relevant to children, families, and communities to advance knowledge to benefit our hospital, the pediatric profession and the public
- provide dedicated service to the community to promote health broadly and to advocate for children and their families
Leading pediatric research
Boston Children's Hospital is home to the world's largest and most active research enterprise at a pediatric center.
Conditions & Treatments
- Advocating Success for Kids (ASK) Program
- At-risk youth
- Bathing and skin care
- Bites and scratches
- Blood donations and blood banking
- Breastfeeding: Benefits of mother's own milk
- Breastfeeding: Management
- Breastfeeding: Plugged milk ducts
- Bronchiolitis
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Cavities (tooth decay)
- Chickenpox
- Childproofing home for poisons
- Children's Hospital Primary Care Center
- Circumcision
- Cold sores
- Dental health
- Diarrhea
- Falls
- Fillings
- Flat or inverted nipples
- Flu (Influenza) and H1N1
- Gestational assessment
- Growth milestones
- Herpangina
- Homeless youth
- Hydration
- Immunizations
- Ipecac syrup
- Lead poisoning
- Meningococcal Infections
- Mouth and teeth
- Natal teeth
- Newborn crying
- Newborn growth
- Newborn skull anatomy
- Non-teratogenic agents
- Normal vision
- Nutrition for school-aged child
- One Step Ahead Program
- Otitis media
- Perichondritis
- Phimosis and paraphimosis
- Pneumonia
- Preschool nutrition
- Pyloric stenosis
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)
- School Refusal
- Slow weight gain
- Soccer safety
- Splinters
- Stye (hordeolum)
- Summer Safety
- Taking your baby's temperature
- Television and children
- Thumb sucking
- Tooth brushing
- Umbilical cord care
- Viruses, bacteria and parasites in the digestive tract
- Winter Safety
- Anatomy: fetus in utero
- Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs)
- Bee stings
- Biting
- Body mass index (BMI)
- Breastfeeding: Getting started
- Breastfeeding: Maternal nutrition
- Breastfeeding: Using a breast pump
- Canker sores (aphthous stomatitis)
- Cat scratch disease
- Chemical burns
- Child Protection Program
- Children's Hospital Inpatient Services (CHIPS)
- Choosing a pediatrician
- Cold (upper respiratory infection)
- Coping with frightening events
- Diaper rash
- Discipline: general principles
- Fever in a newborn
- First trimester of pregnancy
- Flossing
- Fluoride
- Getting to know your baby
- Hand hygiene
- Herpes zoster (shingles)
- Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIV)
- Immune system
- Infants play
- Lacerations without stitches
- Lying and stealing
- Mold allergy
- Mumps
- Newborn birthweight and measurements
- Newborn eating problems
- Newborn reflexes
- Newborn warning signs
- Normal growth
- Nursing bottle caries
- Obesity
- Orthodontics and braces
- Pediatric Environmental Health Center
- Periodontal diseases
- Pilonidal sinus
- Prematurity
- Puncture wounds
- Reye syndrome
- Scarlet fever
- Sealants
- Small for gestational age
- Speech delay
- Stages of play
- Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
- Surgery
- Teething
- Temper tantrums
- Toddler nutrition
- Toothache (pulpitis)
- Uncircumcised penis care
- Vision problems
