SPOTLIGHT -
How Ben Spock became Dr. Spock
The world's best-known pediatrician, by a country mile, is still Benjamin Spock, MD, the author of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.
Children's author, and children's doctor, too
Profile of Charoltte Cowan, MD, a pediatrician who has written a series of children's books about common child maladies such as earaches and fevers.
15-mcg birth control pills inhibit BMD
Certain birth control pills seem to inhibit growth of bone mineral density in adolescent girls, a new study shows.
Four different H1N1 vaccines approved
The FDA approved the H1N1 influenza vaccines from four different companies, ensuring a robust stockpile for the upcoming fu season.
H1N1 vaccine works, and in just one dose
How does a vaccine supply get doubled overnight? By finding out that the second dose isn't needed to get efficacy.
FDA panel: Gardasil okay for boys, too
Gardasil, the human papillomavirus vaccine approved for females, may soon be approved for males as well.
Parents don't think schools are safe
For CS Mott Children's Hospital new poll on schools, appropriately enough, it put out a report card.
FDA approvals: A new ADHD treatment for six-year-olds
The FDA has approved a new type of drug, an alpha-2A adrenergic receptor agonist, to treat ADHD in children as young as six.
Elmo pitches in to help combat H1N1
Three cabinet offices have allied to fight the H1N1 virus, and they?ve recruited Elmo the Muppet to help.
Asthma updates: FDA mulls pregnancy registry
FDA thinks its important for the health of both a pregnant mother and her fetus to learn about a drug?s adverse effects: but is it?
Young adolescents and their awkward awakenings
Two studies show the lifelong impact of sexuality and body image on young teenagers.
Have asthma? Go for a swim
New research shows that there's a treatment for pediatric asthma that works swimmingly.
Kennedy siblings, with a legacy of child health
The two Kennedy siblings will be remembered for a lifetime of service for child health.
FDA approves Hiberix vaccine for Hib
FDA has approved a new Haemophilus influenza type b conjugate vaccine as a booster dose for children between 15 months and four years of age.
Seattle Children's expansion plans shot down
A billion-dollar battle in Seattle is raging between a children's hospital and some locals over expansion plans.
Sunrise Children's Hospital lays off 100
A Las Vegas children's hospital resorts to staff cuts to make ends meet.
What you would say to Obama
Contemporary Pediatrics asked its readers what they would say to President Obama regarding health care and pediatrics. No two responders hit the same points.
Is postpartum due to not breastfeeding?
Postpartum depression has been linked to choosing bottle feeding over breastfeeding, according to an evolutionary psychologist?s research.
Parents are eagle-eyed during a child's hospital stay
They're scared of hospitals and doctors. They're unsure about the treatments. They're not patients, though, but the patients' parents.
New parents can't see household dangers
There are lots of dangers around the house than young kids don't about. Trouble is, some new parents don't about them either.
The medicine cabinet is worse than under the sink
Where do most emergency department cases of poisoning get their poisons from? Not from under the sink: try the medicine cabinet.
Military kids: not just 'brats'
Details the mental stresses facing the child of a military parent: moving, desployment, limited communication, and potential injury or death of the parent.
Pfizer to pay $75 million for Nigerian clinical trial
Thirteen year after 11 children enrolled in a clinical trial died, Pfizer has agreed to pay $75 million in damages.
Colic's secret identity unmasked?
It's time to find who you really are, colic.
When to withhold nutrition from a child
It?s a choice that no parent wants to make, or even consider. But in certain cases, the AAP now says, it can be an ethical choice.
Can swine flu cause seizures?
Parents of a child who has a seizure and a fever may be concerned about epilepsy. They probably won?t be happy to learn it might be swine flu.
What would you say to Obama?
The president sat down with children's health leaders to discuss how to fix health care.
Statistics: 24% of young adults obese
The dream of every generation is to have its next generation be better than the one before. That doesn?t appear to be happening, healthwise, for this current generation of American children.
Bill Clinton's child obesity plan
The problems of child obesity made Bill Clinton and American Heart Association president Timothy Gardner work together for a solution. That solution, though, will take a lot more than two people.
Court: Autism in three kids not caused by vaccines
The US Court of Special Claims has rules that three children with autism did not have it brought on by vaccination.