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Although motivating a family to lead a healthful lifestyle is difficult, with the right approach you can often make a difference. Failing to recognize or address overweight in children is no longer acceptable. Includes two Guides for Parents.

What goes wrong with blood cells and genes of children who suffer this grim disease? And how has a high cure rate revealed late effects of treatment? Answers to these (and more) questions shape your ongoing basic care of patients at the onset of, during, and after their illness.

How do you choose an antimicrobial agent wisely when the clinical situation necessitates it yet neither the pathogen nor its susceptibility is apparent? The authors organize the principles, and pitfalls, of empiric prescribing into a practical outpatient and inpatient guide.

Expanding knowledge, new screening technologies, and effective vaccines have opened new horizons in, and put pediatricians at the forefront of, preventing cervical cancer and other diseases caused by human papillomavirus. Here's what we know now and what it means for your patients. First of two parts.

What caused a tonic-clonic seizure?

What's causing the "doughnut-shaped bumps" on a boy's legs?

The measures of quality in medical care of children differ from that of adult medicine.

Guide for Parents: Preparing for your travel clinic appointment

Guide for Parents: How to help your overweight child

Guide for Parents: Strategies for your family to eat right and move more

A 2-year-old African American boy was brought for evaluation of symptoms of an upper respiratory tract infection and intermittent abdominal pain.

A 9-year-old Hispanic boy presented with submental swelling and dysphagia. The swelling had progressed over 5 days. He had no history of fever, difficulty in breathing, or voice change.

A 30-hour-old boy--born to a 36-year-old gravida 3, para 3, at full term via a spontaneous vaginal delivery--was noted to a have a mildly distended abdomen while in the newborn nursery. He had been breast-feeding every 2 to 3 hours and initially was spitting up about a quarter of the volume he had consumed. During the last 3 or 4 feedings, he had been spitting up most of the milk. There was no bilious emesis. He had not passed meconium.

Millions enjoy skiing, snowboarding, and sledding. These cold weather activities--while exhilarating--also cause many injuries, each with distinct clinical characteristics.

A 12-year-old boy is assessed on the same day that he passed red-colored urine. The boy had been vigorously wrestling with his older brother in the morning; he passed the abnormal-colored urine after lunch. His mother was worried that his kidneys might have been injured during the wrestling.

Parents often place extra blankets or clothes on infants to keep them warm during colder months of winter, according to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), one of the National Institutes of Health; however, this additional bedding material may increase an infant's risk of SIDS.

Parents often place extra blankets or clothes on infants to keep them warm during colder months of winter, according to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), one of the National Institutes of Health; however, this additional bedding material may increase an infant's risk of SIDS.