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The United States is to conduct new research into the potential health effects of the plastics chemical bisphenol A (BPA), which had been used in baby bottles and other food and beverage containers, according to health officials

Nurture, Inc, prompted by the FDA, has alerted healthcare providers to a voluntary recall of specific varieties and date codes of Happytot Stage 4 and Happybaby Stage 1 and Stage 2 pouch meals with expiration dates between November 2010 and January 2011.

The entire series of pentavalent rotavirus vaccine (RV5) may be highly effective in responding to severe rotavirus acute gastroenteritis (AGE).

A mother seeks an evaluation of her 20-month-old son, who has grown slowly and has had leathery dry skin since birth. He also has had multiple skin infections and chronic conjunctivitis, and he has delayed language development.

Given that college athletes are up to half as likely as their peers to smoke cigarettes, investigators explored whether varsity, club, and intramural athletes also are less likely than nonathletes to engage in waterpipe smoking

Through an intense process, a subcommittee advising the federal government has selected 24 areas by which to measure healthcare quality for children covered by Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.

A healthy 4-year-old girl passed a threadlike object in her stool at a day-care center. She had no diarrhea, vomiting, or abdominal pain. Stool had no blood or melena. Child’s appetite normal.

The authors’ comments on the use of melatonin to treat insomnia in children were very helpful as well.

To determine which children who had sustained head injuries would not benefit from CT scans, Kuppermann and colleagues3 conducted a prospective cohort study of more than 42,000 children from 25 North American emergency departments (EDs).

Every year, in the weeks beforeChristmas, there is atleast one television stationairing the movie “It’s aWonderful Life.” Watchingthis 1946 film has become an annualritual for me.

My daughter has been overweight her whole lifeand is always the largest kid in class. She’s juststarted high school and wants so badly to feelattractive, yet she cannot bear trying anotherweight loss program. At 5 ft 6 in, she weighs262 lb. Can you refer her to a surgeon so she canhave the operation that helps her lose weight?

The areas of hyperpigmentation shown here on the trunk of a 15-year-old girl appeared 2 years earlier as 1- to 2-mm hyperpigmented papules with either flat or verrucous surfaces.

A 16-month-old girl was initially brought to her primary care physician because of persistent nonproductive cough of 1 to 2 weeks’ duration, with lethargy, poor feeding, and worsening cough for the past 36 hours. She had been afebrile. The patient was noted to be pale and had a decreased level of interaction. She was promptly sent to the local emergency department. Laboratory studies showed a hemoglobin level of 3.8 g/dL and hypochromic microcytic anemia. The patient was subsequently transferred to the pediatric ICU for evaluation.

An overweight 13-year-old girl, with a body mass index of 29, presented with a lump in her axilla for the fourth time in the past several months. This time, the lump recurred in the left axilla; it had developed in the right axilla on 2 other occasions.

Scoliosis : An update on treatments for children and adolescents Puzzler : Acute shock during Lent Dermcase : More than "Ugg-ly" feet Streamlining your office with technology

Read reviews of "Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5;" "Mental Health, Naturally: The Family Guide to Holistic Care for a Healthy Mind and Body;" "Raising Twins: From Pregnancy to Preschool;" and books by Mary Mahony.

A physician in his mid-40s, Dr. Rifkin presumably may be roughly midway through his career as primary care pediatrician. And this has led to some personal reflections about being a pediatrician.

At some point in your career, a child will become critically ill, requiring resuscitation or other acute intervention in the office.

The first pediatric study of recombinant human hyaluronidase (rHuPH20)-facilitated subcutaneous hydration demonstrated that the procedure is safe, well tolerated, and effective in children with mild-to-moderate dehydration.

This is the third in a series of articles devoted to early detection of children with developmental behavioral problems.

A single dose of the H1N1 vaccine may be enough to prevent infection in infants and children, according to a new study.

An editorial that examines the validity of certain familial admonitions and family wisdom.

FDA has approved InnoMed's Nasal-Aire II Petite for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea in children aged older than 7 years or weighing more than 40 lbs.

Parents with questions about direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests may be showing up in many pediatricians' offices soon, according to a prominent ethicist.

You are the senior resident covering the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) when you receive a call from the emergency department (ED) regarding a nearly 14-year-old Caucasian female patient with a diagnosis of "acute abdomen and suspected septic shock." Ten days before admission, she had had a lipoma removed from her back under general anesthesia.

Employing active sonographic surveillance in newborns with mild hip dysplasia yields results similar to those achieved with immediate splinting treatment, according to a new study.

Text message reminders significantly improved adherence to medication regimens in pediatric orthotopic liver transplant patients, according to a new report.

The FDA approved quetiapine tablets as monotherapy for the treatment of schizophrenia in adolescents (aged 13-17 years) and as either monotherapy or adjunctive therapy for the acute treatment of manic episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in children and adolescents (aged 10-17 years).