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A guide for parents on maintaining good child oral health, in Spanish.

Public secondary schools continue to offer snacks and beverages that compete with more healthy U.S. Department of Agriculture school meal program items, despite recommendations from the Institute of Medicine to restrict the availability of unhealthy competitive foods in schools, according to an article published in the Aug. 29 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

A summary of recent findings regarding produce and foodborne illness.

A growing number of physicians are starting to accept pay-for-performance (P4P) programs.

Early childhood caries (ECC) is the most chronic disease of childhood, yet it is also largely unrecognized. The following is an overview of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of ECC.

Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders discusses major health issues in America.

Children with mild obstructive sleep apnea may benefit from intranasal budesonide.

Adding an angiotensin II-receptor blocker to traditional treatment for Marfan's syndrome may slow the disease.

Children with neurally mediated syncope may often have low iron stores or iron deficiency.

Mind Flight LLC's Beyond a Peanut food allergy flash cards provide safety tips.

ZooPals exam tables by PediaPals provide a child-friendly environment.

Neonatal intensive care code 99477 bridges the gap between critical care and regular hospital admission codes.

Links to useful websites about childhood cancer.

Links to useful websites about hospices.

Links to useful websites about the Surgeon General's office.

Links to useful websites about malnutrition.

Links to useful websites about food safety.

A 12-month-old toddler will often display tantrums. The following are points for both parents and pediatricians to keep in mind in managing the behavior of a 1-year-old.

A guide for parents on preventing foodborne illness in fresh produce.

A 4-year-old boy verbally expresses his desire to be a girl, and wears female clothes. Does he meet clinical criteria for gender identity disorder?

A healthy 10-year-old girl has had a red, white, and blue lump on her thigh since birth.

Several organizations have been pushing for the "medical home," the idea that primary care providers (PCPs) should take responsibility for more coordinated care-and get paid for it.

A boy with extreme left leg pain, no history of trauma, and petechiæ, has a differential diagnosis ranging from malignancies to metabolic disorders.

Popsicles can help soothe a child throat culture test for strep.

Readers comment on the Ottawa ankle rules, radiologic imaging, and influenza immunization.

Commentary about the evidence that children, especially pre-school children, children with special health care needs, and children who are poor, have been overlooked with regard to their dental health.

An overview of the epidemiology, etiology, symptoms, common diagnostic tests, and various treatments of exercise-induced bronchospasm in the pediatric population.

Both autosomal dominant and recessive patterns of inheritance have been proposed.2 Bilateral tibial hemimelia has also been associated with CHARGE syndrome and Langer-Giedion syndrome and may be linked to several loci on chromosome 8.4,5