Sarah Rosenbaum, MD, child psychiatrist, offers insights on helping kids handle fear, overstimulation, and Halloween anxiety. Stephanie Chao, MD, shares expert tips to keep kids safe from costume, candy, and pumpkin-related Halloween hazards. HEPA purifiers in US elementary school classrooms reduced respiratory virus diversity but not overall viral burden. Blueberry consumption during infancy may improve allergy-related symptom resolution. Preterm neonates who underwent LSCI for ROP screening exhibited lower pain scores. Prompt opioid pain relief in the ED significantly reduced hospitalization rates for pediatric sickle cell disease. The declining health of US children is evident in rising rates of chronic disease, obesity, mental illness, and mortality. Training tools dramatically increased pediatricians’ adherence to national guidelines on early peanut introduction. A single dose of clesrovimab protected healthy infants against mild, moderate, and severe RSV disease. A meta-analysis emphasized hidradenitis suppurativa’s early onset and associated diagnostic delays in pediatric patients. Confounding factors, rather than prenatal opioid use only, account for most neurodevelopmental risk in exposed children. Drs. Horowitz and Martin discuss the benefits of using point-of-care ultrasound for pediatric patients. Early, appropriate acne therapy can help prevent scarring and emotional distress in young patients. Induced labor and heavy bleeding lower satisfaction with childbirth, while spontaneous labor and vaginal delivery improve it. A trauma-informed CBT intervention decreased parental perceptions of child vulnerability in a high-risk NICU population. A ratio-based formula formula for diagnosing pediatric anaphylaxis in the ED performed better than the CCF. This slideshow highlights neonatal bacterial meningitis, focusing on early diagnosis, lumbar puncture, and timely treatment. Children with ADHD and sleep difficulties emphasized the importance of behavioral and environmental adaptations. Ibuprofen and acetaminophen raised E. coli mutation rates and ciprofloxacin resistance. In pediatric appendicitis, preop inflammatory markers can predict longer recovery and a greater risk for complications.