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Dosing inconsistencies and other questions about emergency contraception

The emergence of pathogens that are resistant to first-line antibiotics has made managing common bacterial infections more complex. The authors guide you to help minimize resistance.

The first article of a four-part series on nutritional interventions examines evidence on the use, safety and efficacy of low-carbohydrate dieting for weight loss and intractable epilespy.

The role of the modern team physician is demanding but rewarding.Here are the nuts and bolts of what's involved and what you need toknow to do the job.

You can mitigate the health and educational risks faced by an adolescent parent and her child by providing a medical home for both. This "teen-tot" model of family-centered care provides a framework for success.

A child's long-lasting cough is vexing for parents. One route to finding the cause is to, first, rule out serial viral illness and, then, piece together characteristics of the cough with findings from the history.

An infant experiencing postprandial emesis, poor weight gain, and a craving for salt.

Are are all those rules and requirements really for the best?

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The patient, a 13-year-old girl, was concerned about the development of a very itchy, painful, papular rash on her hands and feet. She had been previously well and had no history of illness other than a minor upper respiratory tract infection 2 weeks earlier. The distribution of lesions and the severe pruritus initially suggested scabies, which was treated with 5% permethrin cream. The rash did not improve with applications of this medication, however, and the patient returned the following day for care. She had no oral lesions but complained of mildly painful, nonswollen joints.

Genetic Disorders: Child With Facial Anomalies and Developmental Delay

How did I get herpes? Is there a cure? What causes an outbreak-- and what can I do to prevent another one? My friend got herpes and had to stay in the hospital; will that happen to me? Can I still have children?

A mother brought in her 3-week-old son on the day she discovered a reddish urine stain in the baby's diaper. There was no stool in the diaper. The boy had been circumcised on the second day of life, and the mother was concerned that her son might have experienced a complication of the procedure.

The mother of this 2-month-old boy was concerned about her son's facial asymmetry that was apparent only when he was crying. The right angle of the infant's mouth dropped substantially below the left angle of the mouth when he cried; it also deviated to the right (A). The moment the child stopped crying, his mouth became symmetric again (B).

The FDA recently approved Vusion, an ointment specifically formulated for the treatment of diaper dermatitis complicated by Candida in infants 4 weeks and older. Manufactured by Barrier Therapeutics, Vusion is, according to Barrier, the only prescription product approved for the treatment of diaper rash in the US.

A team of researchers has declared a condition known as eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) as an emerging health concern for children that could cause a host of lifelong problems. This severe, chronic condition has often been misdiagnosed and has been recognized increasingly in the US, Europe, Canada, and Japan in the past few years.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this month approved the use of 40-mg, 50-mg, and 60-mg Medadate CD CII (methylphenidate HCI, manufactured by UCB) Extended-Release Capsules for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).