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What's the motivation behind the increasing pressure on deans and department chairs to increase diversity among students, trainees, and faculty members?

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Handhelds, or personal digital assistants (PDAs), have evolved a great deal since their beginnings as a monochromatic screen with miniscule memory. Here is a look at how you, your practice, and your patients can benefit when you use a PDA.

Emerging and spreading zoonoses are major concerns among the public and public health professionals. Recognition, surveillance, and reporting are our first line of defense.

Is deafness a disability or a difference? Crucial medical and educational choices hinge on the approach to this question. Second of two parts.

Hearing parents of a deaf infant face emotional hurdles and complex choices about how to communicate with and educate their child. The counseling you provide can set the stage for success or failure. First of two parts.

When parents ask about supplements and other so-called natural remedies for depression, what do you tell them? This review of what is known about herbal and dietary treatments for depression in pediatric patients will help you provide an informed response.

Here are practical solutions to 10 common problems encountered by children and parents using an enuresis alarm.

Childhood melanoma is a challenging diagnosis even for a clinician who sees pigmented skin lesions every day. The authors share their international experience with you and describe what you need to know in your practice about the rare, but real, childhood melanoma.

Can you determine what's causing this baby's nasal congestion, runny nose, cough, and noisy breathing?

A boy with a history of skin eruption, intermittent fever, and generalized weakness now has red bumps on the bony prominences of his hands, elbows, and knees. What's the diagnosis?

What's the motivation behind the increasing pressure on deans and department chairs to increase diversity among students, trainees, and faculty members?

A 9-year-old girl presented with a 3-hour history of unremitting severe cramping in her hands and legs. A similar episode occurred a month earlier, but it resolved with massage.

A 16-year-old boy complains of right lower leg pain that began 2 weeks earlier, after his first week at a summer basketball conditioning camp. Before he left for the camp, he was jogging off and on, averaging a few miles a week. At camp he began running 7 miles a day and doing sprints 3 times a week.

On waking up from a nap, a 5-month-old infant was noted to have a watery right eye. The mother thought an eyelash was the problem and flushed the eye with water. Soon afterward, the eye watered again and began to close. There was no history of injury, foreign body, upper respiratory tract symptoms, or fever.