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Creation of an organization that provides support for children who are caregivers of adult family members.

Recently-released tools for pediatricians and parents.

I work in a pediatric emergency department, and nurses frequently tell me they are unable to catheterize female infants and toddlers due to labial adhesions. Since we need to obtain sterile catheterized specimens for workups for fever, here is an easy way to remove adhesions.

Reviews of medical abstracts, plus a top ten list of the best articles from 2007.

A list of resource links for asthma information.

A list of resource links for respiratory disease information.

Growing bones and shifting hormone levels make determining a child's bone density much like hitting a moving target. Fortunately, technologies are evolving to make this measurement more accurate. Evidence on which patients warrant this procedure is also building.

Ask the experts about how to stop a two-year-old from biting in her day care.

Diagnosis and treatment of congenital midline cervical cleft.

An AHRQ investigation found too many US newborns are getting seriously sick.

Readers' letters on an article about ankyloglossia, or tongue-tie.

An infant with non projectile vomiting and poor weight gain is eventually diagnosed with Hirschsprung's Disease.

A personal essay about the similarities of raising puppies and children.

These images were obtained from a 5-month-old boy who was brought to the emergency department (ED) by his parents who noted new-onset rectal prolapse. The prolapse promptly recurred following initial successful reduction under sedation in the ED. A surgical consultation was obtained and abdominal radiographs were requested.

In today's hectic world, where parents and children alike are rushing fromone activity to the next, it is difficult to get meals organized-let alone tofind time to eat together as a family. While this only gets more complicatedas children reach their adolescent years, recent studies have stressedthe importance of these joint meals, especially for teenagers.

Mothers of children with autistic disorder tend to have antibodies that react differently against fetal brain tissue than women with unaffected children, according to research released online in December in advance of publication in the Journal of Neuroimmunology.

Although the majority of British children are immunized with the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, a substantial proportion remain susceptible to infection due to the conscious decision of their parents not have them immunized, according to an article published Feb. 28 in BMJ Online First.

In the diagnosis of solid organ injuries in children, contrast-enhanced ultrasonography is almost as accurate as contrast-enhanced computed tomography and may confer less risk, researchers report in the March issue of Radiology.

AstraZeneca's Nexium (esomeprazole magnesium) has received approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the short-term treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease in children ages 1 to 11.

Overweight Hispanic children and adolescents with normal glucose tolerance have higher levels of plasma markers of endothelial dysfunction and inflammation as well as high blood pressure, high triglycerides and insulin resistance, researchers report in the March issue of Diabetes Care.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's immunization advisory committee voted this week to expand influenza vaccination recommendations to include all children aged 6 months to 18 years.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) expanded the age range of which children should get a flu shot, including everyone from six months to adulthood...

Fewer newborns are being born with cystic fibrosis in Massachusetts, a decrease that researchers attribute to increased preconception and prenatal screening for the genetic disease, according to an article published in the Feb. 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Anesthesia providers should be aware of perioperative complications that are more likely to occur with children who are obese, including major oxygen desaturation and critical airway events, according to research published in the March issue of Anesthesiology.

Abbott's Humira (adalimumab) had been approved by the food and Drug Administration for its sixth indication, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis...

The first reported North American cluster of ciprofloxacin-resistant meningoccocal disease occurred in 2007-2008 in North Dakota and Minnesota, according to a report published in the Feb. 22 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Many of the commercials on Spanish-language television during after-school hours are for food and drink, with many of them sodas and fast food...

Chronically depressed adolescents who fail to respond to a first selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) may be successfully treated with cognitive behavioral therapy and a switch in antidepressant medication, a combination that appears to be more efficacious than switching medications alone, researchers report in the Feb. 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The Food and Drug Administration has made the approval of GlaxoSmithKline's rotavirus vaccine all but official, having its advisory panel vote in favor of the vaccine...

Nearly half of patients with severe congenital neutropenia, a rare genetic disorder, possess mutations in the gene encoding granulocyte colony-stimulating factor receptor, and new research elucidates how stem cells bearing this mutation gain clonal advantage over other bone marrow cells, leading to leukemia, according to an article published online Feb. 21 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.