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You can help parents defuse homework battles by asking questions that uncover why the child is having problems, then suggesting an appropriate intervention. Our parent guide and other anticipatory guidance can go a long way toward heading off homework wars before they begin.

We've learned much about diagnosing, treating, and preventing Lyme disease in the two decades since it was first described in the United States. The recent introduction of an effective vaccine has raised new hope for control, but standard protective measures remain the mainstay in avoiding disease.

The public (that is, the parents of our patients) has begun to take the prevention and quick treatment of infectious diseases for granted. Recent events, however, have demonstrated that we cannot rest comfortably on past successes, and we cannot allow people to be poorly informed.

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For many children, allergic rhinitis is not just a seasonal misery but a persistent condition that can adversely affect overall health. Recognition and effective treatment are the keys to minimizing complications.

Are self-regulation techniques, not pills, the best way to prevent and manage migraine and tension-type headaches? In many cases, this practitioner believes, the answer is Yes.

This electronic wizard can help you make an unusual diagnosis, generate management guidelines, or locate a support group more quickly and easily than any other resource in your office--if you understand a few basic principles.

Snake and spider bites occur frequently, but envenomations are rare. It's important to know when a bite is potentially serious. Here's how to recognize the signs and intervene appropriately.

Little girls and young women athletes will be teaching us a lot, if we'll just pay attention. We don't really know yet about all the ways athletics will affect the psyches and the physical health of our daughters and our female patients. What those girls and young women should know, however, is that we recognize that their bodies can help them succeed in ways never imagined.

Recognizing and treating an anaphylactic reaction are only part of managing this life-threatening condition. Equally important is preventing a recurrence by finding out what caused the episode.

Don't let the joys of summer be destroyed by the tragedy of drowning. Know how to manage this emergency and--better yet--how to teach parents about prevention.

Do you do a genital exam on your male adolescent patients? You should. These adolescent specialists demystify the process by teaching you where the landmarks are and what to look for.

Recognizing cerebral palsy in the first year of life has substantial benefits for both the infant and the family. Here are the risk factors and motor signs to look for.

When a child's seizures won't stop, frantic parents rely on you to tell them what to do. This review will bring you up to date on how to respond to this potentially dangerous emergency.

A 15-year-old boy with a possible eating disorder.

A 12-year-old girl with insulin-dependent diabetes comes to your office for you to evaluate several scar-like reddish-yellow plaques that developed on her shins over the last three months. The lesions do not hurt or itch, she reports, but they are continuing to spread.

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It isn't only that kids are killing kids on city streets and in schools. It isn't only that bringing weapons to school seems to have become as common a reason children are disciplined by teachers as talking in class. It isn't only that song lyrics children sing are filled with violence and cruelty.It's all of these changes in the behavior of our children that have made us pay attention, finally, to one horrible afternoon in Colorado.

From Littleton, Colorado, I write to tell you that this community is contorted with grief. Complacency is no longer an option. Recognize that we have a problem. Recognize that this killing will happen again, perhaps to your child, before we find the means and the will to make it stop. And then act on that recognition, that our suffering will not have been in vain.