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Q I saw a 3-year-old boy for his well-child checkup recently. His mother mentioned that he has always been sensitive to smells, but over the past six months the problem has reached dramatic proportions.

Health care is at the top of the legislative agenda this month as Congressional committees get to work on the nitty-gritty of the federal budget.

Books, videos, and Web sites of interest to pediatricians

Vomiting and altered mental status (ornithine transcarbamylase [OTC]deficiency)

A murmur by any other name might sound sweeter/Correction

The authors offer the primary care pediatrician a framework for thoughtful and directed use of the ever-increasing number of diagnostic tests available to assess developmental delays.

Inflicted head trauma is disturbingly common in infants and carries a poor prognosis. Know what to look for and when to suspect abuse.

Successful toilet training benefits both parent and child. A leading expert explains how to help parents through the training process and avoid pitfalls. Includes a Guide for Parents.

Increasingly, pediatricians address health issues in young patients that will carry effects into old age

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Q Yesterday, a 5-month-old Latino boy was brought to the emergency department of the general hospital in Denver where you work because his mother was concerned about his three-day history of subjective fever and fussiness, including refusal to sleep. You were out, but today you're handed his chart, and a note catches your eye describing three episodes of nonbloody, nonbilious vomiting and two loose stools the day of presentation.

Q A 3-year-old boy in my practice is afraid of toys, especially when he sees and hears them talking on television.

Q I have two questions: First, a 17-year-old, well adolescent girl in my practice plucks her eyebrows unknowingly—usually while watching television on school days.

Q A large, prepubescent 11-year-old boy came in for a school examination, after not having been in my office for three years.

February is when the administration reveals its detailed plan for the year ahead.

It won't come as a great surprise to pediatricians that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) isn't the only viral cause of winter respiratory tract infection in infants. There have always been patients with upper airway congestion, wheezing, and even apparent viral pneumonia who appear in the midst of, or on the edges of, RSV season, but whose rapid antigen test doesn't support a diagnosis of RSV.

An unexpected outcome to a troubling behavior problem/Job appraisal: Pediatricians are a contented lot