Novant Health Elizabeth Pediatrics

04/24/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Our area, including our entire building has lost power. Unfortunately, we will be closing for the remainder of the work day. Our front desk staff is contacting families as well.

We do apologize for the inconvenience and will work diligently to reschedule cancelled appointments!

Stay healthy! 💜

04/18/2026

Preventable diseases are making comebacks in 2025-2026. Rotovirus is another that will make headlines as vaccine rates continue to drop around the country.

Thankfully, there is a well-studied vaccine that has been around for over 20 years that can decrease severity and even prevent it altogether!

💉💉💉 save lives! 💜💜💜

Rotavirus is highly contagious, fast-moving and especially dangerous for babies and young children. Doctors worry declining vaccination rates could lead to more hospitalizations.

04/16/2026

Although this was already known, another long-term study concludes fluoride in US drinking water has no effect on IQ, brain function 🧠 🦷

More reassurance to combat the abundance of misinformation that has spread online 💪

We investigate associations between community water fluoridation (CWF), adolescent IQ, and cognition across the life course using representative da...

04/15/2026

Science shows that playing outside improves overall physical and mental health, and kids of all ages love it! As the weather warms up, it’s the perfect time to head to your local park and play. For fun and easy outdoor play ideas, visit https://bit.ly/3yGpH0f

04/10/2026

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month.

The Novant Health Pediatric Surgery team took time to reflect at the pinwheel garden outside Novant Health Presbyterian Medical center. The campaign’s blue pinwheel symbol serves as a reminder to us all that children deserve the opportunity to live safe, healthy and happy lives.

03/27/2026

03/04/2026

Newborns who don't get a vitamin K shot and are low on the vitamin are at risk of vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB), which occurs when a baby's blood can't make clots, and their body can't stop bleeding. Often, the bleeding starts internally before their parents know anything is wrong and can lead to brain damage or death.

Pediatricians have administered vitamin K shots to babies for decades to protect them from VKDB.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3UxLRff

02/28/2026

📖 The Lancet is one of the world’s oldest, most prestigious, and most influential peer-reviewed medical journals. We have a lot of work ahead of us for the sake of kids and grand kids. 👶👧👦

On the cover of The Lancet:
Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure”

Read this and more in the latest issue 👉 http://spkl.io/6183AauAl

02/20/2026

Our super power as reward to exposing ourselves to germs day in and day out! 💪

In the fight against common childhood illnesses, scientists have turned to an unusual source: the blood of paediatricians. It turns out that antibodies harvested from their blood are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies.

02/18/2026

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