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Parent guide: Sport-specific safety informationA sport-by-sport list of everything you need to keep a young athlete safe.
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AAP supports use of thimerosal in vaccinesThe American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has endorsed the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization to retain the use of thimerosal as a preservative in vaccines.
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Low-income parents who spank toddlers may foster aggression laterImpoverished parents who spank their one-year-old children may encourage aggressive behaviors and cognitive delays in their children for the next two years.
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Newborn's rash linked to mother's antibodiesYou are called from your office to the nursery to see a healthy newborn with a diffuse facial eruption. Her mother, who had a normal pregnancy, labor, and delivery, has a history of Sjogren's syndrome.
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Shared medical appointments: Healing individuals while treating groupsGroup medical appointments-in which multiple patients meet with physicians, nurses, and specialists-can restore the team approach to treatment and foster mutual support.
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Hypertension: Nursing guide to this cardiac pressure cookerPatients may be overwhelmed with the multiple lifestyle changes that control of hypertension requires. RN's care guide will help them understand why each step toward normal blood pressure is so important for long-term health.
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The 'green' pediatric officeOne critical component of the office of the future will be its environmental sustainability. This first article in a series looks at ecological ways to build a new pediatric practice office.
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Hirsutism in puberty: what's new since 1985The ninth in a year-long series of commentary reviewing topics published in Contemporary Pediatrics 25 years ago. This month's article reviews the causes and management of hirsutism in adolescent girls.
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Hirsutism in puberty: what's new since 1985The ninth in a year-long series of commentary reviewing topics published in Contemporary Pediatrics 25 years ago. This month's article reviews the causes and management of hirsutism in adolescent girls.
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New tools for children with Type 1 diabetesInsulin analogs, advanced insulin pumps, and improved glucose monitoring devices make it easier to achieve glycemic control while decreasing the risk of hypoglycemia.
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New tools for children with Type 1 diabetesInsulin analogs, advanced insulin pumps, and improved glucose monitoring devices make it easier to achieve glycemic control while decreasing the risk of hypoglycemia.
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((TEST))The late preterm infant: A little baby with big needsSurprisingly, practically no guidelines exist for the in and outpatient care of late preterm infants. This lack of guidance has forced hospitals to develop their own suite of care practices.
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((TEST))The late preterm infant: A little baby with big needsSurprisingly, practically no guidelines exist for the in and outpatient care of late preterm infants. This lack of guidance has forced hospitals to develop their own suite of care practices.
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New Phase 3 data advances pursuit of pediatric indication for XareltoJanssen, a pharmaceutical subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has announced plans to pursue a pediatric indication for its best-selling blood thinner, Xarelto (rivaroxaban).
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A baby's pseudo paralysis of the hip stumps her doctorsYou are doing a pediatric nephrology rotation. It is late in the evening, and you're just about to leave for home when your pager goes off. You answer the call and learn about a 5-week-old girl who was seen in the orthopedic clinic that afternoon for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH).
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About sickle cell diseaseTo prevent the morbidity and mortality associated with emergency complications of sickle cell disease, it's important that providers recognize the signs and interpret what lab and imaging results mean.
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Headache and fatigue in a teenagerA teenager arrives in ED with fatigue and headaches. He is diagnosed with primary CNS vasculitis.
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Headache and fatigue in a teenagerA teenager arrives in ED with fatigue and headaches. He is diagnosed with primary CNS vasculitis.
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A teen with persistent painful papules and plaquesTeen with painful papules and plaques is diagnosed with Sweet's Syndrome
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Headache and fatigue in a teenagerA teenager arrives in ED with fatigue and headaches. He is diagnosed with primary CNS vasculitis.
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A teen with persistent painful papules and plaquesTeen with painful papules and plaques is diagnosed with Sweet's Syndrome
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Rough recess: gym class injuries on the riseThe number of kids being injured in gym class is on the rise. Why? And how can it be prevented?
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Pediatric community-acquired pneumonia, Part 2: Challenges in the outpatient treatmentAfter navigating a diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia, pediatricians' attention turns to treatment and management, which is guided by age and clinical factors.
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Pediatric community-acquired pneumonia, Part 2: Challenges in the outpatient treatmentAfter navigating a diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia, pediatricians' attention turns to treatment and management, which is guided by age and clinical factors.
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A perplexing red eruptionA 12-month-old awakens with asymptomatic juicy red papular eruptions on her cheeks. It is diagnosed as Gianotti-Crosti Syndrome.
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Shortness of breath in a teenaged girlA previously healthy, 16-year-old Guatemalan girl presents to the emergency department (ED) with a 1-month history of dyspnea on exertion.
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A four-month-old in respiratory distressA year-old child with a jaundice and respiratory distress is eventually diagnosed with HIV.
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A four-month-old in respiratory distressA year-old child with a jaundice and respiratory distress is eventually diagnosed with HIV.
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A four-month-old in respiratory distressA year-old child with a jaundice and respiratory distress is eventually diagnosed with HIV.
