COBTH in the News

If we can recognize our own hang-ups about screens, says child psychologist Michael Rich, who runs the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, we’ll be in a much better position to help children navigate their digital lives.

“We decided as a policy, that we would make all of our consult notes immediately available to the source patient and any involved family members,” said Stephen O’Neill, BCD, JD, a mental health specialist and bioethicist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

When buying a dietary supplement, you probably assume that what’s on the label is what’s in the pill. But this assumption doesn’t always hold up, says Pieter Cohen, a physician at Cambridge Health Alliance.

How does a first-year medical student learn to distinguish between two likely causes of a patient’s shortness of breath? By using a method similar to one birders use, believes Rose Goldman, Harvard Medical School associate professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cite a 2021 study estimating that one in 14 children has a caregiver with poor mental health.

We contacted Mandy Coles, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics and co-director of the Child and Adolescent Trans/Gender Center for Health at Boston Medical Center.