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Together with the American Academy of Pediatrics and healthychildren.org, Kids First Pediatrics wants to acknowledge American Diabetes...

Together with the National Institute of Health and many other organizations, Kids First Pediatrics of Raleigh and Clayton want to help...

From healthychildren.org By: Flor M. Muñoz, MD, MSc, FAAP & Kristina A. Bryant, MD, FAAP Flu—short for influenza—is an illness caused by...

This month Kids First Pediatrics of Raleigh and Clayton wants to bring attention to the importance of having a newborn screening. Newborn...

With September being Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, Kids First of Raleigh and Clayton wants to share some tips to prevent childhood...

From Healthychildren.org No matter what grade your child is about to enter, there’s always a back-to-school checklist of to-dos. It’s a...

By Devika Bhushan, MD, FAAP- Healthychildren.org As the parent of an infant, I join so many of you in feeling a roller coaster of...

Due to the formula shortage, there is an expanded list of approved formulas that is covered by the WIC office! You do NOT need a...

​​​​​​Happy first birthday to your baby! That little bundle you first held is now a budding toddler, soon to take their first steps (if...

By: Peter Rowe, MD, FAAP Most kids and teens who test positive for COVID-19 have mild, or even no, symptoms. But it has become clear that...

Kids First Pediatrics of Raleigh & Clayton stand with healthychildren.org and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) as we...

Yvonne A. Maldonado, MD, FAAP Masks are still required in healthcare settings, and that includes Kids First Pediatrics of Raleigh and...

Does omicron affect children differently than other COVID variants, and how concerned should I be? Answer ​​​Omicron has proven to be the...

When can kids get the COVID-19 vaccine or a booster? James D. Campbell, MD, MS, FAAP, Healthychildren.org Answer ​​Vaccines are our best...

Ashleigh Martin is a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who is passionate about the care of children from the newborn stage into...

Dr. Cori Lewis completed undergrad at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. She went on to medical school at Emory University in Atlanta,...

As parents, we’re constantly encircled by what seems like a truly endless streak of miscellaneous childhood illnesses, of which the most...

Here’s a yet another seasonal illness, always traveling hand in hand with what we wrote about yesterday – the common cold and the flu....

Yet another illness that is incredibly common for kids, especially those in the junior high school. But this one should not be of a big...