A prominent doctors' group worries that a condition in infants that can affect breastfeeding known as tongue-tie is being overdiagnosed in the U.S. and too often treated with unnecessary surgery.

The McKenzie Project in Broward County helps transgender adults and children and their families find access to health care.

A pediatricians' group is warning powdered drink mixes known as “toddler milks” are unregulated, unnecessary and nutritionally incomplete.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has reaffirmed its support for gender-affirming medical for children as the treatments face a growing push for bans and restrictions across the U.S. The board for the group unanimously reaffirmed its 2018 position on the treatments.

During his Wednesday morning speech at a non-denominational Christian private school in Tampa, Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized gender-affirming care, a medical intervention when an individual’s gender identity is different than the one assigned at birth.

During an event about lowering the costs of pharmaceuticals Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the American Academy of Pediatrics’s guidance on childhood obesity.

Three major medical associations are asking the U.S. attorney general to investigate and prosecute people who are threatening violence against children’s hospitals and physicians that provide gender-affirming health care.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says it is putting all its guidance under the microscope to eliminate “race-based” medicine and resulting health disparities.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo says the state will formally recommend against COVID-19 vaccinations for healthy children.

Opioid use in pregnancy has prompted new guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics, aimed at improving care for women and newborns affected by their mothers’ drug use. “While we have been talking about the opioid crisis for years, pregnant women and their newborns seldom make it to the top of the heap. The academy’s report says pregnant women should have access to opioid medication to treat opioid misuse. Two opioids, buprenorphine and methadone, are effective treatments but pregnant women often face stigma in using them and doctors who prescribe them are scarce. Some infants born to women who used opioids during pregnancy develop symptoms of opioid withdrawal, including tremors, fussiness and diarrhea.

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. The Broward County School District has sent out a questionnaire to parents asking what they think school should look like in the fall. The district presented four options:1) Distance or electronic learning, which is what students have been doing since the pandemic started. 3) A combination of in-class and virtual learning4) Broward virtual school, which many students already participate in, but those programs arent affiliated with a specific campus. Theyre safer in school. Theyre safer, theyre healthier in school.Broward County Public Schools spokeswoman Kathy Koch said school officials are still researching different possibilities and appreciate the input.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(CNN) - Parents don't want to give their children foods with artificial sweeteners, surveys show. She is the lead author on a new AAP policy statement released Monday calling attention to potential long-term safety risks of the use of nonnutritive sweeteners by children. One 2014 study found parents were unable to identify these nonnutritive sweeteners in 77% of the products they were shown. Even if a parent recognizes a name from this alphabet soup of products, Baker-Smith said, it's then impossible to discover how much sweetener is in each serving. "The amount per serving is not listed on product labels, so you don't actually know how much sweetener a child is eating," she said.

To maximize parent-child bonding, though, a study says parents are better off reading to their children from a print book than from a tablet. Mothers and fathers would read aloud one print book, one tablet book and one interactive tablet book in a 75-minute period to their 2- to 3-year-old children. When parents read digital books, researchers noted that children were much more likely to interrupt the session, obstructing their parents' view of the tablet so they couldn't read it, closing out of the e-book app or grabbing the tablet from their parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends "co-viewing" for parents and young children so tablet use isn't a solitary act. But the social outcomes and language gains of reading on a tablet are far different than snuggling up with a book, researchers said.

A new review of 58 studies from 23 countries found only the time spent watching television and playing video games negatively impacted a child's academics. But when each type of screen time was broken down, the study found time spent on television viewing and video games was associated with poorer academic achievement. In this study, playing video games seemed to only impact the academic composite score in teens. Babies and toddlersNo baby under 18 months of age should be exposed to screen media, other than video-chatting with friends and family, the AAP says. Continue co-viewingParents shouldn't stop co-viewing television or playing video games with their children just because they are growing up.

Ali Landry demonstrates how to install a car seat during Favord.bys 3rd annual Red CARpet Safety Awareness Event. (Photo by Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Evenflo)A passionate pediatric doctor nailed a redo of a popular 90s rap song by adding her own lyrics about car seat safety and the internet is singing along. In its latest published recommendations on car seats, the AAP recommends:Infants and toddlers should ride in a rear-facing car safety seat as long as possible, until they reach the highest weight or height allowed by their seat. Most convertible seats have limits that will allow children to ride rear-facing for 2 years or more. Once they are facing forward, children should use a forward-facing car safety seat with a harness for as long as possible, until they reach the height and weight limits for their seats.

(CNN) - Pediatricians shared disturbing images drawn by migrant children who were recently separated from their parents while in US Customs and Border Protection custody. The staff at the center asked the children to depict their time in CBP custody. McAleenan, who is now acting secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, requested the meetings after two children died in CBP custody. A pediatrician caring for migrant children at an El Paso hospital said CBP's screening for children in its custody is "absolutely and unequivocally inadequate." He said other doctors would disagree with the AAP pediatricians about the health conditions for migrant children.

She spent two years going over and over the mistakes she made and finally decided to go public as an advocate for swim safety in her community of Tomball, Texas. The American Academy of Pediatrics says such fences prevent more than half of swimming pool drownings of young children. The group Water Safety USA, a consortium of nonprofits and governmental agencies, recommends that all toys be removed from bodies of water when they're not being played with. Spreading Jackson's legacyBennett has made it her mission to spread the message of water safety. She's created a pamphlet of swim safety tips now given out to families when babies are born at HCA Houston Healthcare, her employer.

Albert Passavanti and his family were lounging by the pool in Palm Beach County, Florida on a sunny Sunday when something terrifying happened. As Passavanti's toddler son chased an inflatable ball, he fell into the pool. When Passavanti saw his son was in danger, he jumped to his feet, bolted over a 4-foot fence and dove into the water. There was a fence around one side of the pool, but it wasn't entirely baby proof. The AAP urges parents to be within an arm's length when young children are around or in water.