Pediatric Medicine (PM) is now a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Starting from July 2021, AME Publishing Company is formally recognized a publisher member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and over 60 AME-published journals become a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as part of AME’s commitment to best practice in scholarly publishing. Pediatric Medicine (PM) is among the list of COPE membership.

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Necrotizing Enterocolotis (Ongoing)

This series on “Necrotizing Enterocolotis” is edited by Dr. Josef Neu, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, USA. The main purpose of this series is to Provide an overview of what is cur-rently termed “Necrotizing Enterocolitis” or “NEC”. Historical aspects, current understanding, and future pathways that for better clarifying, predicting, preventing, diagnosing, and treating various forms of intestinal injury and dysfunction that is currently called “NEC” in the neonate will be dis-cussed.

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Integrating Mental Health in the Comprehensive Care of Children and Adolescents: Prevention, Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment

The mental health of children and youth is an integral part of overall health and is a necessary cornerstone for lifelong well-being. For too long physical and mental health have been seen as independent of one another and the latter has been considered less important.

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PM 2021 Annual Report

We here would like to present the progress of PM in 2021 and to extend our sincere gratitude to our editorial board members, guest editors, reviewers, authors and readers. We wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2022 and look forward to working with you in the new year to continue the success of PM.

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Reviewer of the Month (2021)

Over the year, many PM reviewers have made outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

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Nutrition in the Critically Ill Child

Where nutritional support is considered by some as a cornerstone for therapy during pediatric critical illness, others regard nutrition in critically ill children merely as supportive care. Etymological the word therapy originates from the Greek therapeia or Latin therapia meaning “curing” or “healing” and is an attempted remediation of sickness or illness. As a rule, a therapy should be capable of modifying short- and/or long-term clinical outcome of our patients, and thus has indications and contra-indications.

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Oxygen in the Newborn (Ongoing)

This series on “Oxygen in the Newborn” is edited by Ola D. Saugstad, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Advances in Pediatric Cardiology

This series on “Advances in Pediatric Cardiology” is edited by Prof. Swee Chye Quek, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore and Prof. Yiu-Fai Cheung, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

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