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Public health agencies and schools have new federal guidance at their disposal for how to respond to 2009 H1N1 influenza in schools, thanks to recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recommendations encourage officials to weigh the risk of community-acquired flu with the decision to close schools or community functions.

There are lots of dangers around the house than young kids don't about. Trouble is, some new parents don't about them either.

The number of kids being injured in gym class is on the rise. Why? And how can it be prevented?

The new law that applies to all businesses -- including doctor's offices -- is pushed back from August 1 to November 1.

Where do most emergency department cases of poisoning get their poisons from? Not from under the sink: try the medicine cabinet.

There's a vitamin D deficiency in a shocking seven out of 10 US children, according to research in Pediatrics.

If a parent loses a job, he or she may not be the only one developing an ulcer as a result of it.

As August approaches, don't forget it's time for National Immunization Awareness month.

Part 1 of a look at community-acquired pnemunia, the various bacteria that cause it, and how to diagnose it.

Details the mental stresses facing the child of a military parent: moving, desployment, limited communication, and potential injury or death of the parent.

A history of mnemonics related to pediaitrcs, combined with a first look at a new mnemonic for diagnostics that runs from a to z.

A 3-month-old is rushed into hospital after he stopped breathing; he is diagnosed with benign teratoma.

The eighth in a year-long series of commentary reviewing topics published in Contemporary Pediatrics 25 years ago. This month's review reexamines the evidence for teaching testicular self-exams to young men.

The Food and Drug Administration weighs in about whether to approve schizophrenia medication for adolescents.

Dr. McMillan tells of two infants for whom medicine offers no cures, and no treatments.

A letter clarifies that hemlets are worn to decrease the severity of an injury: complete protection from injury is not possible.

A child is born with congenital melanocytic nevi.

Reviews of three pediatric articles: a quicker way to evaluate a child's blood pressure, giving parents a choice of oral or IV fluids for their kids, and a study on early weight-based stereotyping.

Thirteen year after 11 children enrolled in a clinical trial died, Pfizer has agreed to pay $75 million in damages.

It's time to find who you really are, colic.

The words "hospice" and "palliative care" have long made parents cringe -- and they might scare off some pediatricians, too.

It?s a choice that no parent wants to make, or even consider. But in certain cases, the AAP now says, it can be an ethical choice.

Obesity in younger, poverty-level children may be stabilizing, according to new CDC data in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (July 24).

Sometimes it is difficult to determine whether a testicle is fully descended.

When I repair facial lacerations on toddlers, I find that they are likely to start pulling at the bandage as soon as I put it on.

A 6-month-old boy was hospitalized because of fever and suspected central line sepsis. He had been receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN) since shortly after birth following a small-bowel resection, which was performed to repair a midgut volvulus. Abdominal ultrasonographic findings after the procedure were normal. The infant was born at term after an uneventful pregnancy and delivery. Alkaline phosphatase and γ-glutamyl transpeptidase levels were elevated, without hyperbilirubinemia. An ultrasonogram showed hyperhomogeneous and nonhomogeneous echogenicities of the liver, consistent with fatty changes and fibrosis.

Parents of a child who has a seizure and a fever may be concerned about epilepsy. They probably won?t be happy to learn it might be swine flu.

Pollution and pregnant women don't mix, and can severely impact children's IQ, according to a new environmental study.