January was Human Trafficking Awareness Month but the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) urges health professionals and laypeople to remain alert throughout the year. Dr. Joseph Zanga, a past President of ACPeds, has spent the past 6 years working to end this scourge, a companion to his 40 years of effort to end the abuse of […]
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) alerts parents and youth to the fact that reproductive choices impact young women’s risk for developing breast cancer. Dr. Scott Field, co-author of the ACPeds position statement Reproductive Choices of Young Women Affect Future Breast Cancer Risk stated, “The rising tide of breast cancer seen over the last 50 years might be […]
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) celebrates with the Christian Medical & Dental Association their federal court victory for conscience rights of medical professionals. Their case, Franciscan Alliance v. Azar, sought relief from a 2016 federal regulation that threatened to drive doctors dedicated to “first do no harm” out of practice if they would not perform gender-transition […]
Today, a coalition of medical organizations released a public statement condemning recent comments in favor of abortion and opposed to conscience protections made by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Osteopathic […]
The American College of Pediatricians was joined today by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Catholic Medical Association, and the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice in urging the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Jerome Adams, to issue a call to action regarding transgender medical interventions for children. The full letter may be […]
On June 17, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Victoza (liraglutide) injection for treatment of children 10 years or older with type 2 diabetes. Victoza, which has been approved for use in adults with type 2 diabetes since 2010, is the first non-insulin drug approved to treat type 2 diabetes in children since the […]
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) and the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) applaud the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for issuing a proposed rule that restores the scientific definition of sex and moral conscience protections to healthcare. “Treating patients in accordance with gender identity, as opposed to their biological sex, could lead to tragic results,” said Dr. Michelle Cretella, executive […]
Quentin L. Van Meter, M.D., president of the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) and Andre Van Mol, M.D., Co-Chair of the Adolescent Sexuality Committee, and colleagues, were published in the March 2019 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Their letter to the editor “Endocrine Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice […]
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) condemns recent efforts by several states to remove all legal protection from infants prior to, during, and shortly after birth. As in ancient Rome, it is now legal in 2019 New York, and soon, potentially other states, to kill a child through exposure, starvation, and/or the denial of medical care. […]
On December 4, 2018, the American College of Pediatricians, the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, and the Catholic Medical Association, representing over 30,000 health professionals across the nation, sent a letter applauding the Trump Administration’s intention to uphold the scientific definition of sex in federal law and […]
