How violent video games may violate children's health
Evidence is mounting: Playing violent video games contributes to aggressive behavior. Pediatricians can protect their patients by knowing the potential risks and advising parents.
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Sexual abuse: Management strategies and legal issues
A range of issues must be addressed once sexual abuse is suspected or identified: Prophylactic treatment for STDs, emergency contraception, documentation, and reporting.
Sexual abuse: When to suspect it, how to assess for it
Knowing the signs and symptoms of sexual abuse, techniques of interviewing, the significance of anogenital findings, and which lab tests to order will help you identify victims and intervene effectively.
CME -- Fever: Measuring and managing a sizzling symptom
The authors separate fever fact from fever fiction, review which thermometers should be used in which patients, and discuss safe and appropriate use of antipyretics and sponge bathing.
Journal Club
Editorial: Bridging a chasm of quality in child health, too
A report released by the Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, created in 1998 by the Institute of Medicine, addresses systemic problems that frustrate efforts to implement quality health care.
Behavior: Ask the Experts
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New products of interest to our pediatrician readers.
Beach Week: Sand and swimming or sex and swilling?
Parents and pediatricians worry that this high school graduation rite is far from wholesome. The authors offer reassurance and suggestions for reducing risky behaviors.
CME: Airbags and children: A mixed blessing
The dangers of airbags to children have been almost as well publicized as the benefits. Prospects for moderating the former and emphasizing the latter are improving.
The pros and cons of imaging options
Knowing the benefits and limitations of computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and other techniques can help you request the right studies, prepare the family for the exam, and evaluate results.
Pediatric dermatology: What's your DX?
The diagnosis is epidermolysis bullosa.
Behavior: Ask the experts
Editorial: Individualizing risk
Part of the excitement surrounding a heightened understanding of our genetic makeup is that we are beginning to learn what it really means to consider each patient as unique.
D.A.R.E. redux, Foodborne illness: An old problem takes new forms, Follow-up. Eye on Washington
Pediatric legends: Debunking common myths
Medical myths generated and perpetuated by the public and by physicians continue to hamper the care and treatment of children. Are you doing enough to dispel those myths? Or are you one of the guilty?
Helping children survive divorce
When parents divorce, children suffer injuries that can last a lifetime. Pediatricians can provide an ear for children and anticipatory guidance for parents.
CME: Are you talking to parents about SIDS?
Not all pediatricians are educating parents about the sleep position that substantially reduces the risk of SIDS.
Journal Club: The top ten of 2000
The most helpful 10 journal articles from the last year, according to Dr. Michael G. Burke.
Controlling cholesterol in children
How best to manage cholesterol in pediatric practice? Solutions remain controversial, but a pediatric cardiologist clarifies how to proceed.
Editorial: Where's the evidence?
Evidence enlightens the art of medicine. But some hypotheses still can be tested only one child at a time.
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