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Given that college athletes are up to half as likely as their peers to smoke cigarettes, investigators explored whether varsity, club, and intramural athletes also are less likely than nonathletes to engage in waterpipe smoking

Through an intense process, a subcommittee advising the federal government has selected 24 areas by which to measure healthcare quality for children covered by Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.

A healthy 4-year-old girl passed a threadlike object in her stool at a day-care center. She had no diarrhea, vomiting, or abdominal pain. Stool had no blood or melena. Child’s appetite normal.

The authors’ comments on the use of melatonin to treat insomnia in children were very helpful as well.

To determine which children who had sustained head injuries would not benefit from CT scans, Kuppermann and colleagues3 conducted a prospective cohort study of more than 42,000 children from 25 North American emergency departments (EDs).

am writing in reference to “Diagnostic Challenges Associated With Pediatric Tuberculosis: 2 Cases,” (Consultant For Pediatricians, August 2009, page 300). At our pediatric TB Clinic, we try to counteract the various “urban myths” about TB that have been inculcated into the residents on their other rotations. We also provide our residents with hopefully a better understanding of the pathophysiology of TB in children so that they can make more educated risk/benefit decisions about the workup and treatment of patients.

Every year, in the weeks beforeChristmas, there is atleast one television stationairing the movie “It’s aWonderful Life.” Watchingthis 1946 film has become an annualritual for me.

My daughter has been overweight her whole lifeand is always the largest kid in class. She’s juststarted high school and wants so badly to feelattractive, yet she cannot bear trying anotherweight loss program. At 5 ft 6 in, she weighs262 lb. Can you refer her to a surgeon so she canhave the operation that helps her lose weight?

The areas of hyperpigmentation shown here on the trunk of a 15-year-old girl appeared 2 years earlier as 1- to 2-mm hyperpigmented papules with either flat or verrucous surfaces.

A 16-month-old girl was initially brought to her primary care physician because of persistent nonproductive cough of 1 to 2 weeks’ duration, with lethargy, poor feeding, and worsening cough for the past 36 hours. She had been afebrile. The patient was noted to be pale and had a decreased level of interaction. She was promptly sent to the local emergency department. Laboratory studies showed a hemoglobin level of 3.8 g/dL and hypochromic microcytic anemia. The patient was subsequently transferred to the pediatric ICU for evaluation.

An overweight 13-year-old girl, with a body mass index of 29, presented with a lump in her axilla for the fourth time in the past several months. This time, the lump recurred in the left axilla; it had developed in the right axilla on 2 other occasions.

Scoliosis : An update on treatments for children and adolescents Puzzler : Acute shock during Lent Dermcase : More than "Ugg-ly" feet Streamlining your office with technology

Read reviews of "Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5;" "Mental Health, Naturally: The Family Guide to Holistic Care for a Healthy Mind and Body;" "Raising Twins: From Pregnancy to Preschool;" and books by Mary Mahony.

A physician in his mid-40s, Dr. Rifkin presumably may be roughly midway through his career as primary care pediatrician. And this has led to some personal reflections about being a pediatrician.

At some point in your career, a child will become critically ill, requiring resuscitation or other acute intervention in the office.

The first pediatric study of recombinant human hyaluronidase (rHuPH20)-facilitated subcutaneous hydration demonstrated that the procedure is safe, well tolerated, and effective in children with mild-to-moderate dehydration.

This is the third in a series of articles devoted to early detection of children with developmental behavioral problems.

A single dose of the H1N1 vaccine may be enough to prevent infection in infants and children, according to a new study.

An editorial that examines the validity of certain familial admonitions and family wisdom.

FDA has approved InnoMed's Nasal-Aire II Petite for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea in children aged older than 7 years or weighing more than 40 lbs.

Parents with questions about direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests may be showing up in many pediatricians' offices soon, according to a prominent ethicist.

You are the senior resident covering the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) when you receive a call from the emergency department (ED) regarding a nearly 14-year-old Caucasian female patient with a diagnosis of "acute abdomen and suspected septic shock." Ten days before admission, she had had a lipoma removed from her back under general anesthesia.

Employing active sonographic surveillance in newborns with mild hip dysplasia yields results similar to those achieved with immediate splinting treatment, according to a new study.

Text message reminders significantly improved adherence to medication regimens in pediatric orthotopic liver transplant patients, according to a new report.

The FDA approved quetiapine tablets as monotherapy for the treatment of schizophrenia in adolescents (aged 13-17 years) and as either monotherapy or adjunctive therapy for the acute treatment of manic episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in children and adolescents (aged 10-17 years).

I really enjoyed Drs Ewasiuk and Andrew's article, "When is a febrile seizure something else?" (Puzzler, November 2009). Haemophilus influenzae A and H influenzae B are diagnoses that young practitioners need to consider in their differentials, since many of us have not seen H influenzae illness firsthand.

Among urban adolescent girls, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) often occur soon after the first occurrence of sexual intercourse.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a pair of warning letters to Nestle in December 2009 regarding product misbranding.

A recent study demonstrated that long-term, low-dose trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) was associated with a modest decrease in urinary tract infections (UTIs) in children who had had at least 1 such symptomatic infection in the past.

The next time you encounter a sleepy teen patient, you may want to discuss bedtimes with the patient's parents.