February 12, 2014
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The American Academy of Pediatrics, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently approved the 2014 recommended schedules for childhood and adolescent immunizations.
November 25, 2013
Article
Making the appropriate diagnosis is critical to the optimal use of antibiotics in children who have upper respiratory tract infections (URIs), according to a new clinical report.
November 25, 2013
Article
You may not need to operate on every child with acute appendicitis. New research suggests that antibiotics and inpatient observation may be all that are required.
November 25, 2013
Article
A new study shows that children who survive cancer may face another battle-heart disease.
November 25, 2013
Article
Fewer than half of all adolescents with psychiatric disorders receive treatment, and many that do receive treatment in a setting where specialist mental health training is unlikely to exist.
November 19, 2013
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A new study raises a question about whether too many antireflux procedures (ARP) are performed on children during a period of infancy when frequent regurgitation is normal and when already ambiguous measures of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) are difficult to interpret at best.