Pediatrics

Angry feelings often bubble into outbursts for children and teens. Parents may wonder whether their child's behavior is normal; Yale Medicine can help.

ADHD is a condition marked by problems with attention, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness. Learn about symptoms and treatment.

A rare, fast-growing type of cancer that begins in the brain and/or spinal cord.

Autism is a developmental disorder that impairs interaction and communication. Learn about symptoms and treatment.

Child development is a series of skills and stages that occur in a child between birth and adulthood.

New drugs and medical treatments need to go through a series tests called clinical trials. This is how new and better treatments are made possible.

A congenital deformity of the outer ear is a visible malformation of the ear since birth.

A congenital hand disorder (a difference in fingers or hands) can be treated with physical therapy, prosthetic devices, splints and/or corrective surgery.

Developmental delay occurs when a child’s progression through predictable developmental phases slows, stops, or reverses. Learn about symptoms and treatment.

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease in which the immune system destroys insulin-producing cells. Learn about symptoms and treatment.

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that interferes with the ability to learn, communicate, and interact. Learn about symptoms and treatment.

A child whose angry outbursts and aggressive behavior makes life difficult may have oppositional defiant disorder (ODD); it affects 16 percent of teens.

Asthma—a chronic inflammation of the airways that causes trouble breathing—affects 5 to 10 percent of children in the United States.

Malignant pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors, including low-grade gliomas and medulloblastomas, are the second most common childhood cancer.

Pediatric cancers although common are highly treatable. Radiation therapy can be used safely and effectively to treat a variety of cancers that affect children.

Immune therapy uses the body’s own immune system to attack cancer cells. Pediatric cancer immunotherapy has become an important treatment for many childhood cancers.

Survival rates for children with cancer have risen dramatically, a result of major advances in cancer treatments, including pediatric cancer surgery.

More than 80 percent of children diagnosed with cancer are cured, and chemotherapy is an effective treatment for childhood cancer.

Yale Medicine surgeons are widely recognized for innovation and expertise in the surgical treatment of pediatric congenital heart defects.

Constipation is characterized by either infrequent bowel movements or the passage of dry, hard stools.

Crohn’s disease is a lifelong condition that poses unique challenges for children, but with current medical therapies, children can lead healthy, productive lives.

Bedwetting and daytime incontinence can run in families or be a result of certain medical or psychological conditions. Proper diagnosis and treatment is needed.

Kidney failure in children can be caused by birth defects and genetic conditions; a kidney transplant can be safe and effective treatment.

Pediatric liver transplants at Yale Medicine are extremely safe and successful, and can cure many cases of childhood liver failure.

Pediatric movement disorders are neurological conditions that affect the speed, fluency, quality and ease with which a child moves.

Children with medical conditions such as spina bifida, stroke, multiple sclerosis or spinal cord injury may have neurogenic bladders and need specialized care.

Pediatric obstructive sleep apnea is a condition in which the muscles at the back of the throat intermittently relax, partially or completely blocking the airway.

Pediatric gastroesophageal reflux is common; it becomes a problem when the esophagus is irritated and causes pain or a burning sensation.

Pediatric acute respiratory failure is an emergency. It can be serious, even life-threatening, but most children recover without chronic illness.

The immune system’s response to an infection can sometimes spin out of control, leading to a life-threatening condition called sepsis. Babies, children, and adolescents can develop sepsis.

Some children are born with or develop irregularities of the skull and/or spine (called craniosynostosis). Some benefit from surgical correction procedures.

If your child struggles with sleep, snores, is hyperactive or extremely drowsy during the day, he or she might need an overnight sleep study.

If your tonsils are enlarged or chronically infected, this can affect breathing and/or swallowing and may require removal (tonsillectomy).

Tonsillitis is an infection of the tonsils that causes them to swell, making it hard to swallow and leaving the lymph nodes in the neck sore.

Ulcerative colitis causes swelling and sores in the colon, but with proper treatment, however, children can live happy, healthy lives.

Pediatric urology helps children by performing routine procedures like circumcisions and reconstructive surgeries for sexual development disorders.

For children with autism, anger and other challenges, pivotal response treatment (PRT) builds on principles of earlier behavior modification methods.

Babies born before the beginning of the 37th week of pregnancy are considered premature.

Infections and antimicrobial resistance pose a profound threat in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) so special protective measures are emphasized.