Educating children with disabilities: How pediatricians can help
September 30th 2002Educational opportunities for children with disabilities were greatly expanded by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Your advocacy can determine whether your patients who need special education services benefit from those opportunities.
Pediatric Puzzler: All in her head? Intermittent headache and vomiting in a 12-year-old
August 1st 2002A 12-year-old girl complains of headache and vomiting. The symptoms developed two weeks earlier, she reports, and have occurred intermittently since. Pain persists severely for five to 15 minutes and then dully thereafter.
Pediatric Puzzler: Lymphadenopathy and nosebleeds in 2-year-old girl: Is anything as it seems?
July 1st 2002A 2-1/2-year-old girl's adenopathy has not subsided five days after initiation of antibiotic therapy with amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium (Augmentin). And lately, she seems to be having "a lot" of nosebleeds.
Pediatric Puzzler: Cough, chest pain in an adolescent athlete: Factors (five) at play
June 1st 2002After the initial diagnosis of right-middle-lobe pneumonia, a 16-year-old girl completed a first course of azithromycin and then felt better for a time. But now she complains again of a productive cough, chest pain that radiates to her right shoulder while coughing, and dyspnea on exertion.