Pediatric Discovery最新文献

{"title":"<i>Pediatric Discovery</i>: Opportunities and challenges in pediatric medicine","authors":"Qiu Li, Yaolong Chen, Tong‐Chuan He","doi":"10.1002/pdi3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pdi3.4","url":null,"abstract":"We are excited about launching the new open access journal, Pediatric Discovery, which aims to promote and advance the health and well-being of infants, children, and adolescents by disseminating cutting-edge discoveries and knowledge about all aspects of pediatric medicine. This new journal will serve as an essential platform for illuminating basic, translational, and clinical discoveries that impact pediatric health and development. Pediatrics, a clinical medicine specialty, focuses on the medical care and health management of infants, children, and adolescents from birth up to the age of 18.1 However, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended people seek pediatric care through the age of 21 in the 1960s and eliminated the upper age limit for pediatric care in 2017,2 based on the rationale that the transition to adult care should be specific to patient needs, not an arbitrary number. The term pediatrics was first introduced in English in 1859 by a German physician, Dr. Abraham Jacobi (1830–1919), who became the first dedicated pediatrician in the world and is known as the father of American pediatrics. Nonetheless, child-specific medical problems, such as childhood epilepsy, rashes, premature births, and meningitis, were described in the Hippocratic Corpus in the fifth century B.C., as well as by Greek philosophers and physicians Celsus, Soranus of Ephesus, Aretaeus, Galen, and Oribasius from the first to fourth centuries A.D.3 Some of the early publications specifically focusing on children's medical concerns appeared between the 1790s and the 1920s. Pediatrics has now emerged as a major branch of medical science and encompasses a broad spectrum of physical, mental, and social health care, ranging from preventive health care to the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic diseases. The field has been evolving at an unprecedented pace due to the advances in our understanding of human diseases at the genome, cell and organ levels. The overall goals of pediatric medicine are to reduce the rates of infant and child deaths, control the spread of infectious diseases, promote healthy lifestyles for a long disease-free life, and to help improve the lives of children and adolescents with chronic conditions. Pediatric practitioners are also involved in the prevention, early diagnosis, and management of developmental delays and disorders, behavioral problems, functional disabilities, social stresses, and mental disorders, including depression and anxiety disorders. Pediatrics is different from adult medicine in many ways because a child is different physiologically from an adult. As a result, congenital defects, genetic variance, and development-related disorders are of great concern to pediatricians. Children are not simply miniature adults. A child's immature and developing physiology must be taken into account when considering symptoms, prescribing medications, and diagnosing illnesses. In particular, pediatric physiology greatly impacts the ","PeriodicalId":498028,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Discovery","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135478816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}